The Town of Strong awarded the Boston Post Cane to long-time resident Dorris Brackley on April 28. She has lived most of her 97 years in Strong, where she graduated from high school in 1938. She married Rufus A. Brackley, fellow resident of Strong, in 1938, and they spent 63 years together. Brackley has been […]
Boston Post Cane
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Rumford's oldest resident honored with Boston Post cane
Marjorie Fish Puiia, 98, holds the gold-headed Boston Post cane presented by the Rumford selectmen Thursday at Rumford Community Home. From left are Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs, Selectman Mark Belanger, Selectman Peter Chase, Puiia’s son, Wayne Puiia, and her daughter, Dolly Colton. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) RUMFORD — For the first time since 1987, the Boston […]
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Montress E. Lambert
FARMINGTON — Montress “Mont” Estelle (Wing) Lambert, 103, passed peacefully on Wednesday afternoon on Dec. 27, at Edgewood Living Center in Farmington, where she had been a resident for eight years, with her son, Roger and devoted Edgewood staff by her bedside. Mont was born at the Wing Farm on the banks of the Sandy River […]
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Otisfield woman receives Boston Post Cane
Betty Goss, 93, is presented with the Boston Post Cane by Otisfield Selectman Lenny Adler, a longtime friend, during Wednesday evening’s selectmen meeting. Adler said the cane is given to the oldest resident in town. Goss spent the first 15 minutes of the board meeting chatting and taking pictures with family and friends. Betty Goss, […]
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Otisfield voting on cable service ordinance
OTISFIELD — Residents will vote Wednesday on whether to approve an ordinance that would allow Spectrum cable company to provide service to 80 to 90 percent of the town. The vote will follow a public hearing at 7 p.m. at the Town Office on Route 121. Administrative Assistant Anne Pastore said at the board’s Sept. […]
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Leeds oldest resident presented Boston Post Cane
LEEDS — More than three dozen people gathered at the Leeds Community Church on a June afternoon to honor Leeds’ oldest citizen, Rose Ames, 99, with presentation of the Boston Post Cane. Ames turns 100 today, Friday, July 7. Selectman Dwight Buckley presented the cane to Ames, who attended the gathering with her son, Brian […]
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Leeds seeks oldest citizen for Boston Post cane
LEEDS — In August, 1909 Edwin A. Grozier, Publisher of the Boston Post newspaper, gave 700 New England towns a cane to be presented with the compliments of the Boston Post to the oldest male citizen of the town. It was to be used by him as long as he lived (or moved from the […]
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Turner woman awarded Boston Post Cane
TURNER — Selectmen this week awarded the Boston Post Cane to Phyllis Richardson, 97, the town’s oldest resident. Richardson, the town’s 38th recipient of the award, was presented a replica of the original cane and a dozen red roses. Richardson, who turned 97 on Nov. 27, has lived in Turner all of her life on […]
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Mexico dedicates town report to Myrtle Milledge
MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to dedicate the town report to their newest Boston Post cane recipient, Myrtle Milledge. Milledge, who turned 100 in December, was presented the Boston Post cane, a plaque and flowers by town officials on Feb. 26 at the Rumford Community Home, where she now resides. When the […]