AUBURN — Sister Rita Pelletier, OP, born in Lewiston on July 27, 1930, the daughter of Joseph and Marie-Louise (Beland) Pelletier died Tuesday, April 3, at Clover Healthcare in Auburn at the age of 87. Sr. Rita was baptized and confirmed at Saints Peter and Paul Church and is a graduate of St. Dominic High School, […]
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Hostage-taker in France kills 3, is shot dead by police
TREBES, France (AP) — An armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing three people and injuring about a dozen others before being shot to death when French police stormed the market, authorities said. French President Emmanuel Macron said all evidence suggested that it was a terror attack — the […]
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Mt. Blue trip to France gets help from Farmington Rotary
FARMINGTON — Eight Mt Blue High School students and their three chaperones will travel to France for 10 days in March. Students will have the unique opportunity to experience life in France by staying with host families in Laval. While in France they will visit schools and see historical sites such as Versailles Palace and […]
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Jacqueline Y. Caron
LEWISTON — Jacqueline Y. Caron, 76, of Lewiston, died Saturday, Sept. 23, at Central Maine Medical Center following a short illness. She was born in Pond Rouge, Quebec, Canada on Feb. 18, 1941, the daughter of the late Jean Paul and Lucille (Chabot) Gauron. She was educated in Lewiston schools and was married to Roger W. […]
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Donald Trump seeks consensus with France despite differences
PARIS (AP) — President Donald Trump and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, are looking to set aside differences on trade and climate change and find common ground as they meet Thursday ahead of Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Trump arrived in the French capital after an overnight flight from Washington and hours before his meeting […]
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French election sets example for U.S. centrists
When historians recount the downward spiral of Trumpian populism, they may very well start in France. As in the U.S., voters were crying for radical change. The French had a Trumpish option in nativist right-winger Marine Le Pen and, over at the far left, an old-school Trotskyist. But French voters gave victory instead to a […]
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Maine lobsterman’s buoy found 2,500 miles away in France
This photo was posted to the Facebook Group “Lost at Sea” to ask for help tracking down the owner of the lobster buoy. ADDISON — A Maine lobsterman’s buoy has been found in France, 2,500 miles away from his boat. WCSH-TV reports Adrian Batson offered Gilbert Mellaza some Maine lobster to ship his buoy from […]
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Marjorie L. Soucy
AUBURN — Marjorie L. Soucy, 72, a resident of Dixfield, passed away after a brief illness at the Hospice House of Androscoggin in Auburn on Wednesday, April 26. She was born the youngest of 10 to Albert and Geneva McKinnon on Oct. 19, 1944. She was a 1964 graduate of Mexico High School. On May […]
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Normand L. St. Denis
LEWISTON — On Friday, Feb. 10, after being separated for only 2½ months, Normand St. Denis rejoined Maria, his wife of 67 years, in heavenly eternal rest and peace. Born in Lewiston on April 3, 1925, he was the son of Samuel and Alma (Samson) St. Denis, the first of his family to be born […]
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Truck slams into crowd in France, kills more than 80 people, including Americans
NICE, France (AP) — A Frenchman of Tunisian descent drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day along Nice’s beachfront, killing at least 84 people, many of them children. The slaughter ended only after police killed the armed attacker in a hail of bullets. French leaders on Friday extended the country’s 9-month-old state of emergency […]