NEW GLOUCESTER – The four candidates vying for two three-year terms on the New Gloucester Board of Selectmen all agree they want to keep taxes low. Incumbent Linda Chase, who serves as vice chairwoman of the five- member board, is running for her second full term, having also served an additional 18-month remaining term after […]
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Corinne ‘Coky’ Wills
1933 – 2012 AUBURN — Corinne “Coky” Wills, RN, 78, died Thursday, June 7, at The Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice surrounded by her family. She was born in New Gloucester on Aug. 9, 1933, daughter of Millard F. and Della H. Marston. Coky attended elementary school at Shaker Village and graduated from […]
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Eleita Lynn Hawthorne Munroe
LEWISTON — Eleita Lynn Hawthorne Munroe passed away peacefully Dec. 20, 2011, with her family by her side at Central Maine Medical Center.
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P. Hilton: New kind of town government
On June 12, the voters of New Gloucester have the opportunity to create a new kind of town government by electing Jean Couturier as selectman — a town government operating under clearer rules, with more communication, timelier public information, and decisions that are not predetermined. For years, the board has been dominated by a circle of […]
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Local model airplane club holding open house June 9
NEW GLOUCESTER — The SkyStreakers model airplane club, will host their second annual open house from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 9, at their field off Bald Hill Road. Rain date is June 10. The group will have several training aircraft and instructors available to give free introductory flights to anyone who wishes. […]
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Walk for the birds
The Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston/Auburn will visit the New Gloucester Marsh and Pineland Farms to see Virginia rails and other marsh birds, followed by birds of woodland edges and open farm fields, from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 9. Dan Marquis (784-8397) will lead. Those going should meet at Staples, Promenade Mall, Lisbon […]
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Lewiston man, 21, pleads guilty to manslaughter
AUBURN — Bob Ryder told police he had paid Danita Brown twice for sex and twice she’d taken the money and vanished. The third time, after meeting her at a downtown Lewiston market, Ryder gave Brown $100. She followed him home. They had sex, and afterward he fractured her skull with a clock. Ryder, 21, […]
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Maine education commissioner’s goals happening two years ahead of him in Gray
GRAY, Maine — A cutting-edge education experiment at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School could become the norm in Maine if Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen has his way. On any given day, students from as many as three grades can be found studying together in the same classroom. Instead of letter grades, student performance is based on […]
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Tractor-trailer accident delays I-95 traffic
NEW GLOUCESTER — Two tractor-trailers were in an accident at mile marker 68 southbound on the Turnpike on Thursday morning. The accident occurred between Auburn Exit 75 and the Gray-New Gloucester barrier toll at mile marker 67. Further information was not immediately available Thursday night.