BRUNSWICK — Midcoast Humane, with campuses in Brunswick and Edgecomb, announced the expansion of its adoption program on Monday, with the goal of bringing more adoptable pets home. The shelter takes in close to 3,500 stray and surrendered animals every year at its Brunswick and Edgecomb campuses. Animals that are not reclaimed and reunited with […]
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Maine teacher who won $1M prize is accused of stealing $28 leash
Educator Nancie Atwell responds to applause after receiving the first Global Teacher Prize. With her on stage in Dubai are former President Bill Clinton and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai. EDGECOMB (AP) — A Maine teacher who pleaded guilty to shoplifting a $14.99 blouse after winning the $1 million Global […]
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Body of missing Edgecomb woman found in river
WISCASSET (AP) — Officials say that the body of a woman who was last seen on Friday has been found in the Sheepscot River. WCSH-TV reported (http://on.wcsh6.com/1cRUz0J) that the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office said Monday that a couple walking their dog on Water Street discovered the body of 74-year-old Lynn Crink. Lynn Crink’s husband said […]
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Search continues for 74-year-old Edgecomb woman missing since Friday
EDGECOMB — The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, along with other state and local agencies including a Maine Marine Patrol plane and state police dive team, continued to search on Sunday for a missing 74-year-old woman who left her home on Quarry Farm Road in Edgecomb on foot at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Lynn Crink was reported […]
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Gilman Bertrand Whitman
1926 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — Gilman Bertrand Whitman, 88, passed on peacefully on Tuesday, March 17, at the Veterans’ Home in South Paris. He was born in Portsmouth, N.H. on Oct. 26. 1926, to Gerald Bertrand and Jessie Veasey Whitman. He was attending school at Essex Agricultural Institute in Danvers, Mass., majoring in floriculture […]
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Maine teacher wins Global Teacher Prize
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An English teacher from rural Maine won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Sunday after 42 years of work as an innovator and pioneer in teaching literature. Nancie Atwell plans to donate the full amount to the Center for Teaching and Learning which she founded in 1990 in […]