AUBURN — Bill Hamilton oversaw the installation of a massive, 54-foot lighting catwalk last month in front of the stage at the Community Little Theatre that replaced a ladder system he had designed 30 years earlier. Hamilton jokes that at CLT, he is a behind-the-scenes kind of guy, and he is, definitely, a scene kind […]
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People You Know: Warren McGlauflin, CMMC nurse making an ‘impact’
LEWISTON — Within months of his graduating from the University of Maine with a degree in horticulture, Warren McGlauflin’s mom kindly slid another college application his way. Plants and landscaping probably were not going to pay the bills. He should look into nursing. Even with his early, intense aversion to needles, it turned out to […]
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People You Know: He's got to skate, skate, skate
LEWISTON — John L. Marquis grew up in Lewiston, one of nine children, second youngest, with a single pair of old steel roller skates to share and a long, wooden porch that beckoned. “We’d skate back and forth, take them off, give them to the next one,” said Marquis, 78. “If I got to skate […]
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People You Know: Betty Olson, 80 and still skating
LEWISTON — Betty Olson’s mother saw one of Sonja Henie’s movies in the 1940s, with the gorgeous Olympian moving gracefully on ice, and that was it. “My mother bought my sister a pair of skates and said, ‘OK, let’s go skating,’” Olson said. Not long after, Olson traveled to Massachusetts with her sister during a […]
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People You Know: Phil House, letting the music do the talking
AUBURN — Phil House is coming up on a year of milestones. Thirty years playing organ at the First Universalist Church of Auburn. Thirty years playing weddings at the All Souls Chapel at the Poland Spring Resort. Thirty years playing in the Monday night Sunset Concert Series with good friend Kathy Haley of Danville. House […]
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People You Know: After 36 years, time for another new beginning
LEWISTON — Back in 1979, Mary Ruchinskas was on board to help start the nonprofit that would become Safe Voices and was wrapping up a one-year position helping to launch Advocates for Children when her boss told her about the opening of a teen shelter, New Beginnings. They were hiring. She should look into it. “I […]
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People You Know: Piano strikes a chord for retired physician
LEWISTON — When he was 6, George Morrissette knew he wanted to be a doctor. At 10 years old, he knew he wanted to play the piano. He has seen thousands of local patients in a nearly 40-year career at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, and now at age 77, he’s still at the keys. […]
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People You Know: Born to fish
LEWISTON — Gabriel “Gabby” Giguere started leading his first fishing expeditions for strangers at age 12. “The old man used to keep the money — just one time I kept it,” Giguere said. He bought a pole. One of eight kids growing up in Tramway, in the Allagash region, Giguere would go with his family […]
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People You Know: Faye Brown keeps on cuttin’
LISBON FALLS — Nearly 50 years ago, Faye Brown’s sister-in-law called to gripe: She was losing too many barbers to the Navy. Young women in her barbershop kept marrying sailors and taking off. Brown was a young mom, already married. If she could study for her barbering license, she had a job waiting for her. […]
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People You Know: Carly Conley, 16 years at LPD and counting
LEWISTON — When Carly Conley was 21, she tried out for one of three open spots at the Lewiston Police Department with 60 other would-be recruits and didn’t make it. Then Chief Bill Welch called a few weeks later. One of the three finalists had abruptly dropped out of the police academy. Did she still […]