WATERVILLE (AP) — An 80-year-old mother of seven from Waterville has fulfilled a nearly two-decade old dream by skydiving. Marjorie Bell leaped out of an airplane and with the help of a tandem skydiver floated 10,000 feet to the ground on Mother’s Day, one day after her birthday. Bell said she “never felt so free.” […]
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Bell lost, bell found: Andro chamber gets its ring back
LEWISTON — After its annual meeting in January, the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce realized its ceremonial bell had gone missing, the same golden bell that Chamber President Chip Morrison’s mom had used to call him home for dinner decades before. Morrison put out an all-points-bulletin, feeling a little bleak at the prospect of its […]
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Bath church looks at ways to muffle loud bell
BATH (AP) — A Maine church is looking to mollify neighbors for whom its bell tolls too loudly. Neighbors of the First Baptist Church in Bath say the bell began ringing louder than it used to after the church tower’s clock was worked on about a year ago. Shadi Towfighi, owner of the Kismet Inn, […]