PORTLAND — Joel Aaron Hayden was in Cumberland County Superior Court on Thursday afternoon to face two charges of murder. Hayden, 29, of New Bedford, Mass., was arrested Monday following the shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Renee Sandora, 27, and his longtime friend, Trevor Mills, 28, of New Bedford. Sandora was the mother of Hayden’s […]
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Massachusetts man charged with two counts of murder following shootings in New Gloucester
LEWISTON —A 29-year-old New Bedford man has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the shooting deaths of a man and woman outside a mobile home in New Gloucester Monday night. Joel Hayden was arrested immediately after his release from Maine Medical Center, where he was being treated for a back injury […]
Fight Back Festival to raise funds for cancer center
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Fight Back Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, at Pineland Farms. Fight Back is a family festival of fun for all including demonstrations, balloons, face-painting, live music and food. Events will include Chris & Dave’s Not Dead Yet Bike Ride featuring 10-, 25- and 50-mile bike rides; Combat Cancer Run […]
Murder victim was ‘free spirit’
LEWISTON — When Mike Tibbetts last talked to his fiancee on June 15, she told him she was on her way to a local hospital to be treated for a bad cough. Danita Brown, 38, told Tibbetts she loved him. He told her they would fill her prescription for her bronchitis when she returned to […]
Well done – Laura Fralich
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Skidmore College celebrated the achievements of the class of 2011 at the college’s 100th commencement exercises held May 21 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Laura Fralich of New Gloucester received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude.
Bald Hill Boys will play at benefit concert
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Sabbathday Lake Association will present a night of music on Friday, July 15, to benefit conservation projects on Sabbathday Lake. Performing will be The Bald Hill Boys, who will bring their mixture of acoustic bluegrass, folk and rock music, with special guest Dawson Hill, a professional pianist who has played throughout […]
Owls to make night visit at Maine Wildlife Park
The Maine Wildlife Park and the Chewonki Foundation will put on an ‘All About Owls’ night visit from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the park, 56 Game Farm Road, Gray. Several species of live, permanently injured owls from Chewonki will be on display with their handlers throughout the evening, and available for […]
Wildlife park to host locked antlers display
NEW GLOUCESTER — From Tuesday, July 5, through Sunday, July 10, the Final Charge, a massive, museum quality display showing two huge bull moose with locked antlers, will be on display daily at the Maine Wildlife Park. Created by local taxidermist Mark Dufresne of Nature’s Reflections Taxidermy in Gray, these moose are most often exhibited […]
‘Roots and Traditions’ Steel band, violinist, Portland String Quartet will celebrate American music at Maine festival at Sabbathday Lake
NEW GLOUCESTER — The sixth annual “Maine Festival of American Music: It’s Roots and Traditions,” to be held July 6-9, promises a first: a steel band performance in the historic Sabbathday Lake Shaker Meeting House. The celebration of music, presented by the United Society of Shakers of Sabbathday Lake in collaboration with the Portland String […]
New Gloucester home damaged by fire
NEW GLOUCESTER — Fire damaged a house on Intervale Road early Saturday afternoon. No one was home at the time. The family’s two dogs were removed by firefighters but were unharmed. The New Gloucester Fire Department got a call just after 1:30 p.m. from a neighbor who saw smoke coming from behind the one-story house […]