LEWISTON — Jamie Belleau set his sights early on hockey and the law. Both passions stuck, and so did his love of hometown. Belleau, 43, is head coach of the Lewiston Blue Devils boys’ hockey team, a new partner at Trafton, Matzen, Belleau & Frenette and a Lewiston booster, big time. “The Lewiston School Department, Lewiston […]
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People You Know: Sadie Landry — Mom, sensei, woman on the go.
LEWISTON — Sadie Landry’s family moved from North Dakota to Lewiston when she was young for her father’s work, and it was tradition when each of the children turned 13 to go back there for the summer. When she hit 13, she stayed with her grandmother, who worked in a bakery. It was a delicious […]
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People You Know: Emilie Garcia, Special deliveries
LEWISTON — Emilie Garcia majored in psychology and business economics in college. Psychology because she liked people and exploring “how people think and why they do what they do.” Business economics because her dad was a business owner and won her over to those basics always being handy, no matter her field. She was working […]
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People You Know: Jennifer Gaylord — Her job is disaster
LEWISTON — Moving back to Maine hadn’t been a good thing. After a divorce in 2007, Jennifer Gaylord said she returned to her home state to be closer to family — but inside, it felt like “the end of the world. Life as we knew it was over.” It was — but it got better. […]
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People You Know: Erik Moody — actor, teacher. His new movie debuts Friday in Lewiston
LEWISTON — On Friday, Oct. 31, Erik Moody stars as a man struggling with psychological trauma in “Dark,” a thriller in the Damnationland film series airing at Guthrie’s new theater. Last summer, he was the voice of a paratrooper in the History Channel’s miniseries, “D-Day in HD.” And last year, he was on screen as the […]
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People You Know: Rose Sheline, Finding her place in Lewiston-Auburn
AUBURN — Rose Sheline wasn’t planning to come to America — until she met Carl on a mission trip. He spent two weeks in the Philippines, her home country, in 1998. They wrote each other for the next three years while she finished dental school. A decade later, she still wasn’t planning to move here. […]
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People You Know: Kathy Martin, teacher-turned-principal
SABATTUS — As soon as school let out in Auburn in June, Kathy Martin headed here, eight miles away, for the last week of classes and let students fire away. What was her favorite book? they asked. Her favorite movie? What’d she like to do with her family in the summer? All the important things, […]
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People You Know: Mickey Reeder — Up, up and away
LEWISTON — Mickey Reeder moved to town, never having visited the city before, and got to know Lewiston from above. Reeder moved here from Iowa with her husband, John, in 1972, when he bought a local chiropractic practice and she became his office manager. A decade later, they were looking for a hobby for their […]
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People You Know: Mike Lecompte, Leaving Maine to enjoy coming back home
LEWISTON — A few years after college, Mike Lecompte left Maine to drop out of planes and rescue people sick at sea in California. Being away for five years made him appreciate Maine more. Now, he’s ready for five months away from home. After working 26 years for the Auburn Fire Department, Lecompte planned to […]
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People You Know: Diane Biron, playing on and on
LEWISTON — Ida Vaillancourt began playing the organ at St. Mary’s Church in Little Canada in 1935 when she was just 14. In 1961, when her great-niece Diane Biron turned 14, she began subtly grooming her young student to take over. Vaillancourt had breast cancer and she was dying. Biron didn’t know she’d secretly made […]