Golfers walk the course before the play was suspended due to rain on the opening day of the New England Amateur golf tournament Tuesday at Portland Country Club in Falmouth. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald Photo) FALMOUTH — Eric Bleile was putting for birdie on the 17th green when he got the word. Stop play. “Pretty […]
2018
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
UMF Fitness Center director dies
FARMINGTON — Jim Toner, the director of the University of Maine at Farmington’s Fitness and Recreation Center and a former director of both parks and recreation and public works in Waterville, died Monday of cancer. Toner, 59, served as director of the Fitness and Recreation Center, or FRC, since 2006 and was the founder of […]
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Rumford woman injured when car strikes truck in Wilton
WILTON — A Rumford woman received minor injuries Tuesday when the car she was driving struck a pickup truck on Route 2 East, police officer Kevin Lemay said. Kera Radcliff, 32, was taken by a NorthStar EMS ambulance to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Lemay said. She was behind a truck driven by Don Hamann, […]
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Chief: Change in gun law has ‘unintended consequence’
LEWISTON — The city’s police chief said Monday a change in state law three years ago allowing concealed gun carry without a permit has triggered a spike in reports of gun-related crimes. Police Chief Brian O’Malley called the effect an “unintended consequence” of the 2015 law change. “I’m seeing people who wouldn’t carry in the […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Phillips man accused of drunken driving after crash
SANDY RIVER PLANTATION — Police said a Phillips man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge after he crashed his car, drove away and was stopped by two vehicles that pursued him to Route 4 in Avon. John C. McCarter, 30, was charged with misdemeanor operating under the influence of alcohol, leaving the scene of a […]
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Police: Victim never reported stalking
LEWISTON — If being stalked, one should report it to the police and keep details of how, when and where the stalking has occurred, police said. Kimberly Dobbie did not tell police she was being stalked by Albert Flick, according to Lt. David St. Pierre of the Lewiston Police Department. St. Pierre said Tuesday he had “double […]
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Gagnon joins WHA in Lewiston
LEWISTON — St. Mary’s Health System, a member of Covenant Health, announces that Maine native Joelle Gagnon, DO, has joined Women’s Health Associates of Lewiston to practice obstetrics and gynecology. Gagnon is a native of Blue Hill. She earned a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine […]
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Golden calls Poliquin "astonishingly weak" on Russia
LEWISTON — Democratic U.S. House candidate Jared Golden said Tuesday that Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin displayed “astonishingly weak” leadership in his comments about what happened at the Helsinki Summit. Golden, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, said Poliquin “fails to acknowledge that Russia poses a serious threat to American democracy, and American security interests abroad, particularly […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: Crunching Lewiston’s crime stats
It was, some thought, the darkest time in Lewiston’s history. The craziness went on all year and was the kind of craziness that made national headlines. A group of teenagers slashed the throat of a cab driver and then left him for dead in a parking lot. A giant, corn-fed farmhand named Lloyd Frank Millett […]
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Donald Trump says he misspoke on Russia meddling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to “clarify” his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he had misspoken when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. “The sentence should have been, […]