NEW GLOUCESTER — Town Manager Paul First, who told selectmen privately last week he is resigning effective April 4, announced it publicly at Monday night’s board meeting. “It has been a difficult decision for me,” he read from a news release. “New Gloucester is a wonderful community. I’ve been given tremendous opportunity, first as town […]
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Sister Frances Carr, 1 of last Shakers in Maine, dies at 89
NEW GLOUCESTER — Sister Frances Carr, one of the last remaining members of a nearly extinct religious society called the Shakers, has died. She was 89. Carr died Monday at her home in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake after a brief battle with cancer, said the group, which is down to two members. “The […]
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Police seek help locating missing man
GRAY — State Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a New Gloucester man who did not show up for a medical appointment this morning in Yarmouth and is believed to be operating his pickup truck. Police said Frank Birch, 78, was last seen about 8:30 a.m. Thursday in North Yarmouth after his […]
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One entrepreneurial clan: Norumbega Farm abuzz with business
NEW GLOUCESTER — On secluded Woodman Road, there’s a sprawling farm, 3½ businesses and one industrious family. Julie and Michael Fralich have a double-yurt rental at Norumbega Farm that hit Airbnb this summer to rave reviews. Their son, Noah, presses and bottles commercial hard cider from one of their barns. And they run a new […]
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‘I moo.’ Barn weddings go big in Maine
On a trip last fall with her in-laws-to-be, Chelsea Cardarelli scouted a half-dozen wedding venues around western Maine before a waitress suggested the Maine Wedding Barn. It once housed 20,000 bales of hay upstairs, 147 cows downstairs. “As soon as we got out of the car, I just knew it was the place,” said Cardarelli, […]
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Shakers and Wabanaki: Parallel paths of culture
NEW GLOUCESTER — Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village played host for the eighth year to the Native American Summer Market and Demonstration on Saturday, and more than 24 different vendors and entertainers shared their works and educated others about their culture. The streets were lined with cars as hundreds of people gathered to see the items […]
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Tinker finding success in PASS Mods
NEW GLOUCESTER — For Windham native Ben Tinker, a move from the friendly confines of a full-fendered stock car to the more radical open-wheel modifieds has brought success pretty quickly. Tinker, 38, now a resident of New Gloucester, spent most of his 18-year driving career piloting a Super Street at Oxford, and more recently a […]
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3 arrested in credit card scam
NEW GLOUCESTER — Three out-of-state men have been arrested for what police describe as an elaborate credit card cloning scheme. Officials at the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said they began investigating the matter when several residents of New Gloucester and Gray reported that fraudulent charges had been made on their credit cards at local businesses. […]
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RSU 10’s King moving to lead Gray/New Gloucester schools
GRAY — Craig King has been named the next superintendent of schools for School Administrative District 15, the schools of Gray and New Gloucester. King is the current superintendent of Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10, which is based in Dixfield and serves approximately 2,600 students in 12 communities. King visited SAD 15 schools on […]