LEWISTON — Moments after the new year began Tuesday, emergency phone calls from Sabattus and Durham took a new route. Calls for help to police officers, firefighters or paramedics will go first to Androscoggin County’s dispatch center, as they have for more than a decade. Then, in most cases, they’ll be transferred to a dispatch […]
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P. Shepard: Unimaginable mental torture
I am looking at the horror of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., from the perspective of Adam Lanze; an unpopular view, I am sure. As someone who suffers from mental illness, I can say from experience that others cannot begin to fathom the mental agony and mental torture Lanze had […]
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Readers’ favorite holiday recipes
The tastes. The laughs. The memories. Three readers share their favorite holiday recipes and what makes them special to them. Durable delights Dennise Dullea Whitley, Norway From the early 1950s to this Christmas, the Dullea family of Norway has enjoyed our mother’s spritz cookies, even though she passed away in 1987. Every Christmas, the holiday […]
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Parents upset local schools don’t close for storm
LEWISTON — While dozens of southern and western Maine schools canceled classes during Monday’s snowstorm, at least four area school systems did not, causing thousands of children in Lewiston, Auburn, Poland and Turner to slog through the snow, raising the ire of their parents. “What bothered me was when a normal 15-minute ride to school, […]
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M. and L. Grover: Thanks for the thoughts, prayers
My wife, Lee, and I want to thank all the people who made our son, Kevin Grover’s, memorial at Falmouth High School possible. Losing a child is a very painful experience, but knowing that so many people have sent their love and support to our family and Kevin’s has helped to alleviate some of our […]
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R. Allison: Pledges undermining democracy
Mainers share an illustrious tradition of approaching problems with reason, independent thinking and open minds. Today, that seems the mark of an endangered species. What is blocking a reasonable agreement on federal deficit reduction? It’s something called the Norquist pledge (euphemistically named the “taxpayer protection pledge”). Unless those elected representatives who have taken that ideological […]
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Wilbur — Pioccone
Ron Pioccone and Liana Wilbur GREENE — Mr. and Mrs. Scott Wilbur of Greene are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Liana Wilbur, to Ron Pioccone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Pioccone of Tyngsboro, Mass. The future bride graduated from Leavitt Area High School in Turner in 2005 and from Providence College […]
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Medicine take-back day yields 1,437 pounds in Androscoggin County
ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY — The Medicine Take-Back held Sept. 29 was a huge success. Despite the rain, the take-back sites across Androscoggin County collected and disposed of 1,437 pounds of unwanted and expired medicines. Combined with the Spring Medicine Take-Back, 3800 pounds of unwanted and unused medicines were collected from county residents. That’s just under two […]