WEST PARIS — About a mile from Paris Hill, where historic mansions overlook the train of snow-clad peaks spanning the White Mountains and real estate values command some of the best prices in the county, Donald Hodgkin lights up a cigarette in the small prefabricated home he shares with about a dozen people. Three-year old Kiera […]
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Coats for children available in Jay
JAY — A supply of outerwear for Coats for Kids has been received by the Town Office and is available free of charge at Depot Laundry in the Jay Plaza. There are coats of all sizes for people in need, Town Clerk Ronda Palmer said. They received five bags of coats, she said. [email protected]
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Spirit Challenge filming set for Jay school
JAY — More than 400 Spruce Mountain High School students and teachers, along with parents and community members, will gather in the school gym at 5 a.m. Thursday to be filmed for the Spirit Challenge food drive. Spruce Mountain challenged Mountain Valley High School in Rumford to see who would bring in the most donations […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Scattering CJ: Changing lives around the world
Post by Scattering CJ. Frattini, a former U.S. Marine, New York building contractor and TV personality, immediately texted his teenage son at school to say, “I love you.” They’d had their own terrible argument that morning — among the worst Frattini could remember — and he vowed never again to let anger come between him and […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Special town meeting on Wells Fargo donation scheduled for July 24
RUMFORD — Voters will decide whether to allow the town of Rumford to accept the donation of a building at 127 Washington Street and the cash to demolish it at a special town meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Rumford Falls Auditorium. During a June 5 selectmen’s meeting, Town Manager John […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Vendors, donations for fireworks show sought for MollyOckett Days in Bethel
BETHEL — Vendors and donors for fireworks are being sought for MollyOckett Days Festival, Bethel’s largest and most traditional summer celebration and homecoming in mid-July. The event is named for a Pequawket Indian who befriended the early settlers of western Maine and lived among them. The festival is organized by the Bethel Area Chamber of Commerce. Robin […]
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Gingerbread House gets $20,000 grant
NORWAY — A $20,000 grant from the Davis Family Foundation will help Friends of the Gingerbread House replace the roof on the historic Main Street building. The announcement of the grant was made this week by Friends of the Gingerbread House. “The current grant is an outright grant and will go towards several Phase II […]
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Sale of obsolete ships leads to $1 million donation to Maine Maritime Academy
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy was one of seven maritime academies in the country to each receive a $1 million donation from a government program that recycles obsolete vessels, the Department of Transportation announced Wednesday. The money came from the sale of vessels from the Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet, a fleet of 120 […]
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Cutler refuses political action committee money for campaign
AUGUSTA — Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler announced Monday that he will not accept campaign donations from any political action committees for the 2014 election, a move that his campaign said will put him in office with no strings attached but which a spokeswoman for Democrat Mike Michaud said would have little effect on […]