Afternoon activities include a pie sale, musical guests Neil James and the Every Other Sunday band, a Victorian fashion show, and tours of the elegant 1867 Washburn family mansion. New this year is a student poster display and a print craft activity for children. The Norlands’ gift shop will also be open. Admission is $5 […]
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‘Kickin’ Butt: Come Help Take a Load off Annie’ musical benefit in Norway on Sept. 7
“Kickin’Butt: Come help take a load off Annie” is a benefit planned for from 1-8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, at Tuckers Music Pub, 290 Main Street. The gala features seven hours of live entertainment for the support of friend and community stakeholder, Anne Mallory, and to raise awareness for colon cancer. Among the performers slated […]
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‘Life goes on’ for former Franco Center director after severe stroke
Three months after a crushing stroke, Louis Morin is rising again. The 48-year-old former executive director of the Franco Center is walking and talking. He’s preparing to move back home to Freeport in a week or so. And soon, he’ll be driving again. “This could have been much, much worse,” Morin said this week in […]
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Poaching pensions? School leaders inflate salaries to boost retirement
Tom Morrill wanted to boost his retirement. So a few years ago, during his last year as Auburn’s school superintendent, Morrill chose to have the school system pay him some of the money it was paying for his health insurance. He turned around and bought back that insurance. Morrill didn’t gain or lose anything in […]
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Spaghetti dinner, dance benefit to be held for Rumford man
RUMFORD — A spaghetti dinner and dance benefit will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Rumford Fraternal Order of Eagles to help raise money for a resident undergoing cancer treatments. Sheila Delamater said Thursday morning that her brother, Vito Coulombe, was diagnosed with cancer in August 2013. Describing him as […]
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World War II medals
WILTON — A story published Tuesday on Page B1 of the Franklin edition and Page B2 of the Oxford Hills and City editions about Henry Palmer Brimigion receiving his World War II medals was written by Eileen M. Adams. It was an editing error.
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WWII veteran receives medals 71 years late
WILTON — Henry Palmer Brimigion, 87, wondered why so many family members were attending services at the Wilton United Methodist Church on Sunday morning. Immediately after the last hymn was sung, the Rev. Laura Church called him up to the front, offered him a seat and had his long overdue World War II medals pinned […]
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LePage: Global warming upside
AUGUSTA — Speaking to a conference assembled to discuss the transportation trends of the future, said Thursday that global climate change could have an upside for Maine. “Everybody looks at the negative effects of global warming, but with the ice melting, the Northern Passage has opened up,” he said. “So maybe, instead of being at […]
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Benefit dinner/dance planned for injured logger
RUMFORD — A benefit dinner and dance will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Rumford Eagles Club to raise money for resident Lloyd Billings, who was injured in a logging accident in May. Jim Peterson, a friend of Billings and responsible for helping organize the benefit, said Billings was injured while […]