AUBURN — The Auburn Fire Department will hold its 20th anniversary 9/11 remembrance ceremony starting at 8:40 a.m. at Central Station, 550 Minot Ave., with a welcome and opening remarks by Chief Robert Chase. The event will be livestreamed on the city of Auburn’s Facebook page. At 8:46 a.m. — the time the first tower […]
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‘They didn’t know me or what I would do for this country’
Yasin Ahmady, who had come to the United States from Afghanistan 20 years before 9/11, is one of many Muslim Americans who suffered verbal and physical attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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‘Everything around was chaotic’: Topsham first responder recalls time in the New York Fire Department during 9/11
Twenty years after the tragedies of Sept. 11, Topsham paramedic and firefighter Elizabeth Reeves remembers the colleagues she lost.
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For sisters of Mainer on doomed flight, ‘It’s the day our family changed forever’
James Roux, a Portland attorney, was on the hijacked plane that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center just after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Topsham to honor victims of 9/11 attacks
Topsham plans to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks with a memorial tribute at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the flagpole center of the Town Hall and at Public Service building, 100 Main St. Speakers will include Chief Chris McLaughlin of the Topsham Fire Department and Chief Marc Hagan of the Topsham Police […]
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Twentieth anniversary of 9/11 to be remembered in Livermore Falls
All area community members and first responders are invited to attend.
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Soldier from Portland knew that 9/11 attacks would change his life
On Sept. 11, Todd Libby was a cable guy. The events of that day led him to a 20-year career in the military including a tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Paintings from the dust of 9/11 to be displayed in Falmouth
Works by late New York artist Michael Mulhern, who witnessed the attacks and later moved the Maine, have emerged from storage.
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Watching 9/11 attacks from classroom sparked social activism
David Morgan, then a senior at Kennebunk High School, looks back on how the day profoundly impacted him.
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20 years later, they’re haunted by their encounters with 9/11 hijackers
Those who crossed paths with two of the World Trade Center terrorists reflect on what happened in Maine in the hours leading up to the worst attacks on American soil.