SABATTUS — The opening — his opening — came this past spring when a fifth-grade teaching position opened at up at Carrie Ricker School. Jeff Ireland called the principal. What did she think? He asked the superintendent the same, then the school board. Ireland, Oak Hill Middle School’s principal — its only principal since it […]
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Disc Golf: Sabattus Disc Golf to host 2016 U.S. Women’s Championship
SABATTUS — Local disc golf is going big time. One of the fastest-growing recreational sports in the country has chosen Maine for the site of one of its most prestigious events. The Professional Disc Golf Association, in conjunction with the Maine Sports Commission, announced Thursday that it would hold the 2016 Women’s Disc Golf Championship […]
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Sabattus board announces preliminary tax rate
SABATTUS — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday evening announced an estimated tax rate of $18.14 per $1,000 of assessed property value, which includes approved municipal spending and estimated school spending for 2015-16. The rate is 1.9 percent more than this fiscal year. The school budget will be voted on in June. Because voters at […]
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Sabattus voters debate emergency services and equipment
SABATTUS — Emergency services and equipment were the most costly items at issue at town meeting Thursday night. EMS program spending was approved at $14,500, which covers the cost of equipment and training. The Budget Committee figured this expense to be lower, $12,000, but the town thought otherwise. Some controversy arose surrounding why this budget […]
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Correction: Names omitted from honor roll
SABATTUS — A third-quarter honor roll listing for Oak Hill Middle School published on Page B3 of Tuesday’s City edition should have included eighth-grader Sadie Waterman, high honors, and sixth-grader Kiara Levesque, honors. The information was not provided to the Sun Journal.
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High court hears Sabattus woman’s appeal in rape case
PORTLAND — A Sabattus woman convicted of aiding her husband’s sexual abuse of a preteen is asking the state’s highest court to throw out the conviction on the grounds the jury was not allowed to consider her tormented past. Attorney George Hess, representing Christal Gagnier, 28, told justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday […]
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Kenneth E. Hutter
1957 – 2015 SABATTUS — Kenneth E. Hutter, 58, of Bowdoinham, was suddenly taken from us Monday, May 4, in an automobile accident in Sabattus. He was born in Providence, R.I., on Jan. 18, 1957, a son of Ernest and Noreen (Gladding) Hutter. He was educated in Cranston and graduated high school from Cranston West […]
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Louis L. Lamontagne Jr.
1934 – 2015 LEWISTON — Louis L. Lamontagne Jr., 80, of Sabattus passed away on Monday, May 4, at Russell Park Manor. He was born in Lewiston on May 31, 1934, the son of Louis and Corona Mailhot Lamontagne Sr. Louis married his wife, Silvette, in January 1953 and together, they raised their family. Louis […]
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200 Faces and counting: Local artist paints away college debt, builds portrait resume
SABATTUS — Six years ago, Jeanelle Demers put a goal out in the world: The studio arts grad wanted to paint and sell 200 portraits to pay off her college loans. Last month, she hit No. 200. The loans are history, her paints are still out and, in hindsight, committing to 200 Faces was a gutsy […]