MECHANIC FALLS — Down East Country Music Association, Inc. presents the 38th annual Award Show Sunday, Aug. 26, starting at noon at the Silver Spur, Route 11. The day of music and awards will also have a 50/50, raffles and food concessions. Support local artists and see the people who qualify to go to Tennessee […]
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Pink Feather Foundation offers free clothes shopping for students
Joni Gordon, president of the Pink Feather Foundation, left, and Jen Kyllonen, treasurer, co-founded the Oxford-based nonprofit that allows underprivileged children and their teachers to shop for donated clothes online for free. Donated cardboard suitcases with the washed and ironed clothes are sent to local schools for the students to take home. (Erin Place/Advertiser Democrat) […]
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Edna J. Twitchell
SOUTH PARIS — Edna J. Twitchell, wife, mother and grandmother, passed away at Market Square Nursing Home on Tuesday, Aug. 14. Edna was born to Benjamin F. Philbrick and Elizabeth Alice (Harding) Philbrick on Jan. 4, 1929, in Frye, the youngest of 11 children. During the first year of her life, her mother and sisters moved […]
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Parish center renovations completed in Mechanic Falls
MECHANIC FALLS — Members of St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish recently celebrated a milestone in the renovation of the parish center at Our Lady of Ransom Church. The project will eventually include creating a new worship site. The Rev. Edward Clifford, pastor, blessed the new hall that was created from a section of the center […]
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Gary W. Durgin
MECHANIC FALLS — Gary William Durgin of Mechanic Falls passed away at his home Monday, Aug. 13. Gary served his country as a U.S. Marine. He retired from BIW after many years of employment. Gary loved building sheds and homes, and was a dedicated family man who, alongside his wife, always helped those in need. He […]
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Mechanic Falls holds Town Council meeting
MECHANIC FALLS — The Town Council on Monday night approved a tax rate of $21.80 per $1,000 of property valuation, a decrease of 20 cents from last year. In other matters, the council approved changing the start of their meetings on the first Monday of month from 7 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Due to Labor […]
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Continental Shakedown plays this weekend
Continental Shakedown will be performing at 8:30 p.m. this Friday at The Mill House Pub in Mechanic Falls. The trio will also bring its jam-infused blues-rock to Rick’s Cafe in Naples at 9 p.m. Saturday. There is no cover charge for either show.
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Part of Mechanic Falls farm to become Redneck Fun Park. Think small-engine racing.
MECHANIC FALLS — A portion of the property formerly known as the Harvest Hill Farms on Pigeon Hill Road will become a small-engine racing park called Redneck Fun Park. The Mechanic Falls Planning Board on Monday night approved the application submitted by Matthew Weeks of Greene. The farm is the site of the “haunted hayride” […]
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Teen driver still hospitalized after crash last Wednesday in Mechanic Falls
MECHANIC FALLS — At least one person remained hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash last week on Route 124, police said Monday morning. Sgt. A. James Daigle of the Mechanic Falls Police Department said it appeared Adrien Ainaire, 17, of Mechanic Falls failed to yield the right of way to Kolby Woods, 21, of Minot last Wednesday, […]
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Lillian Irene Purington
AUBURN — Lillian Irene Purington, 85, of Mechanic Falls passed away peacefully Friday, July 13, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, surrounded by her loving family. Lil devoted most of her life to caring for her family. She enjoyed watching the Red Sox and her favorite soap opera, “Days of Our Lives.” She is survived […]