AUBURN — A former John F. Murphy group home manager has been sentenced to serve six months in jail for stealing from the nonprofit and from at least one of the disabled clients served by the agency. That sentence was stayed until June 3 so the former manager can attend her daughter’s high school graduation […]
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Poland would see largest tax rate hike in new RSU 16 budget
POLAND — The RSU 16 School Committee on Monday voted to recommend a 2013-14 budget of $19,273,655. It’s about $54,000 more than they presented for discussion at meetings held in each of the district’s three towns earlier this month. The committee examined three alternatives presented by Assistant Superintendent Tina Meserve for dealing with a problem […]
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Drug Take Back Day includes eight locations in Androscoggin County
LEWISTON — National Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 27. Eight locations in Androscoggin County will accept prescription drugs that people are no longer using. Maine continues to struggle with the prescription drug abuse epidemic. The doubling of pharmacy robberies between 2011 and 2012 provided a startling and troubling reminder of that fact. Having […]
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Two indicted in string of Maine, N.H. vehicle thefts
PARIS — A Fryeburg man was arrested Tuesday, four days after being indicted on arson and theft charges related to vehicle thefts this past December in which one was set on fire. Cody A. Parmenter, 19, of South Chatham Road was indicted Friday by an Oxford County grand jury on one charge of arson, three […]
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Cumston Library Friends meeting MONMOUTH — The quarterly meeting of Friends of Cumston Library will be held at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, at Cumston Public Library in Cumston Hall. This is an annual meeting and an election of officers. The public is invited. For further information contact Nancy Ludewig, secretary, at [email protected]. Texas hold’em […]
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Rev. Roger W. Dunning
LEWISTON — The Rev. Roger W. Dunning, 87, of Mechanic Falls, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, April 13, after a long battle with Parkinson disease. Roger had been a resident at Russell Park Manor in Lewiston for nearly a year. Roger was born in Sebasco, the youngest child of William and Vesta […]
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Making It: Auburn Manufacturing expands, builds business on heat
MECHANIC FALLS — From its early beginnings on the second floor of the town library, Auburn Manufacturing has grown from one product line and two employees to two facilities and 50 workers. President and CEO Kathie Leonard said the key is making things and never giving up. “Innovation follows manufacturing,” Leonard said. “You have to […]
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Maine Maritime Academy announces dean’s list
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy recently named students to their dean’s list for outstanding academic achievement in the first semester of the 2012-2013 academic year. Auburn: Robert Cloutier, power engineering technology, 2015; Cody Day, marine engineering operations, 2016. Bowdoin: William Melcher, marine engineering technology, 2014; Owen Blease, marine engineering technology, 2016. Mechanic Falls: Alexander Morrison, […]
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Well done: Students earn honors
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The following local residents made the dean’s list for winter 2013 quarter at Rochester Institute of Technology. Joseph Archambault of New Gloucester, a second-year student in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. Joshua Vickerson of New Gloucester, a second-year student in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing […]
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Amanda Gibson is Principal’s Award winner from Poland High
POLAND — Amanda Gibson of Mechanic Falls, a senior at Poland Regional High School, has been selected to receive the 2013 Principal’s Award, Principal Cari Medd has announced. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. “Amanda has continued in the tradition […]