1942 – 2013 The Rev. Lucille Jean Brown Richard, 71, of Bridgton, died Friday, Oct. 18, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn after a long illness. She was surrounded by family. Lucille was born on Aug. 27, 1942, in Cambridge, Mass. She graduated from Lawrence High School in Massachusetts. Later in life, Lucille earned a […]
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Police now say missing N.H. teen never made it home
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — A teenage girl who disappeared last week never made it home after leaving her high school, despite earlier reports by police that dogs had tracked her scent to the house, police said Wednesday. Abigail Hernandez was last seen leaving Kennett High School at 2:30 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon. Police said […]
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Nashua, N.H., school bans students from playing tag during recess
Local reaction: ‘Tag’ isn’t an issue in Lewiston-Auburn schools NASHUA, N.H. — An elementary school in Nashua, N.H., is reminding parents and students that playing “tag” violates the school’s longtime “no contact” rule for recess games. Charlotte Avenue Elementary School Principal Patricia Beaulieu posted a letter on the school’s website last week informing parents of the […]
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Battling moose displays at the Fryeburg Fair
FRYEBURG — The only two existing displays of antler-locked moose in North America will be on display at the Fryeburg Fair next week. In a statement from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Director of Public Information and Education Doug Rafferty said Maine has partnered with New Hampshire Fish and Game to bring […]
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Woman shoplifts $100K from N.H., Mass malls
SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Police have arrested a woman who they believe may have shoplifted more than $100,000 of merchandise from malls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Twenty-seven-year-old Jennifer Santos of Lawrence, Mass., has been charged in a series of shoplifting crimes at Northshore Mall in Peabody, Mass. Authorities have said the thefts were likely […]
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‘How does New Hampshire do it?’
That’s not just a headline, it’s the title of a report done in 2011 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. While the data is a little dated, the report is as relevant today as it was two years ago. Gov. Paul LePage’s stated goal for a second term would be to eliminate Maine’s income […]
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Tech pleads guilty in hepatitis C outbreak
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A traveling hospital technician accused of infecting patients in multiple states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 16 federal drug charges under an agreement that calls for him to serve 30 to 40 years in prison. Judge Joseph Laplante asked David Kwiatkowski, 34, why he wasn’t […]
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M. Ricker: Check out roads in New Hampshire
Officials of the Maine Department of Transportation should go to New Hampshire and take classes on how to build and maintain roads and bridges. People here in Maine don’t seem to know how to take care of roads and bridges. Those people who don’t know just how bad the roads and bridges are here in […]
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Cate Street promises to square outstanding property taxes with towns
The Katahdin region’s largest taxpayer has agreed to pay $1.25 million in overdue property taxes to East Millinocket and Millinocket by mid-August, officials said Friday. Cate Street Capital leaders committed to paying the $900,000 in property taxes the company owes for the 2012-13 fiscal year during a meeting on Monday, Millinocket Town Manager Peggy Daigle said. “We […]
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Compare Maine, N.H. on all factors
Anyone interested in eliminating income taxes eventually finds their way to a Maine/New Hampshire comparison, as a writer for Forbes magazine did Friday. In a column on the magazine’s website, Travis Brown wrote, “Maine doesn’t attract the level of derision that extremely high-tax states (like New York) do.” That surprised us after all of the […]