LISBON — A 12-year-old Lisbon Falls boy has died as the result of injuries sustained when he crashed his ATV Thursday night while riding near King Road. Police said the boy, later identified as 12-year-old Mitchell J. Breton-Tuplin, of Gould Road, crashed shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday. “Initial indications were that the incident involved two […]
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Former Bangor Police Chief Winslow dies
BANGOR — The former police chief for Bangor has died after a battle with cancer. The Bangor Police Department said that Donald Winslow died early Thursday at home with his family by his side. He was 57. Winslow was the 27th police chief of Bangor for nine years. Chief Mark Hathaway says Winslow served in […]
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Philip E. Thibodeau
Philip E. Thibodeau RUMFORD—A Mass of Christian Burial honoring the life of Philip E. Thibodeau was celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, May 30, at Parish of the Holy Savior. The Rev. Greg Dube was the celebrant, Bernard Poirier was the altar server and Mark Belanger was the organist. Music selections were “Be Not Afraid,” “Precious […]
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Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at age 86
Her death was confirmed in a statement issued by Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she had served as a professor of American Studies since 1982. Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Angelou defied all probability and category, becoming one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream success as an […]
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Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. “I’m […]
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Bates grad William Worthy, longtime reporter, dies at age 92
BOSTON (AP) — William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, has died. He was 92. Worthy died May 4 at a nursing home in Brewster, Massachusetts, according to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He was a Nieman Foundation fellow from 1956 to […]
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Audio pioneer Ray Dolby dies at 80
Ray Dolby, a pioneering sound engineer who removed the hiss from audiotapes and whose innovations brought surround-sound into movie theaters and altered the recording industry, died Sept. 12 at his home in San Francisco. He was 80. His company, Dolby Laboratories, said in a statement that he had Alzheimer’s disease and had recently developed acute […]