There is movement at about 2:05 in the video. They caught . . . something. And 15-inch tracks in the snow. Now, Bill Brock is going to buzz their western Maine woods with a drone looking for Bigfoot. The star of the “Monsters Underground” TV show and longtime Bigfoot hunter from Durham isn’t ready yet […]
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Senior Citizens Cribbage League LEWISTON — The Lewiston Senior Citizens Cribbage League winners at the Lewiston Memorial Armory on Dec. 11 were: first place, Ron Maheux and Roger Labbe; second, Monique Nadeau and Norm Bissonnette; third, Anna Faucher and Betty Ames; fourth, Fran St. Pierre and Val Asselin; fifth, Ed Hinkley and Bob Cielinski. The […]
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Committee signs plea to AG over Androscoggin County pay authority
AUBURN — A dozen members of the Androscoggin County Budget Committee have signed a plea to Maine’s Attorney General seeking help to end the growing controversy over the authority to set pay for elected county commissioners. Meanwhile, the debate is growing among the county’s 14 towns. By next Wednesday, selectmen and councilors in at least […]
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Parade of Trees happening all week MECHANIC FALLS — American Legion Post 150, at 41 Elm St., will host Santa’s Parade of Trees from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, and Thursday, Dec. 11; from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Dec.12; and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. Santa will visit […]
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Turkey dinner benefits food pantry DURHAM — A turkey harvest dinner to benefit the LACO Food Pantry will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Durham Friends Meetinghouse, 532 Quaker Meetinghouse Road, at the corners of Route 125 (Pinkham Brook) and Quaker Meetinghouse (Durham) Road. The menu is turkey with all the […]
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Peggy League remembered as ‘never idle’
League, 65, passed away Sunday as one of the oldest survivors of CF in New England. It was a disease she carried her whole life but one she was determined would not identify her. Born in Topsham in 1948, League grew up on the family dairy farm and graduated from Brunswick High School and the […]
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Great Falls Forum reflects on election LEWISTON — The Great Falls Forum lecture series will present Bates College politics professor John Baughman speaking on “The 2014 Election: What did we Learn and What can we Expect,” from noon to 1 p.m. in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library on Friday, Nov. 21. A Q-&-A […]
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Freeport narrowly votes to stay in RSU 5 with Durham, Pownal
FREEPORT — The town voted 2,228 to 2,152 Tuesday to stay in Regional School Unit 5. The 76-vote margin means Freeport will continue the school district consolidation with Durham and Pownal that took effect in 2009. A group called Moving Freeport Forward filed a withdrawal petition in October 2013. Freeport voted 953-768 last December to […]
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Stewart elected to board in special election
DURHAM — Write-in candidate Michael Stewart of Hollowell Road was elected to the Board of Selectmen with 90 votes in a special election Tuesday. He will be filling the seat vacated by Barry Baldwin, who resigned earlier in the year. There were no candidates for the position in the special election. The next highest write-in […]