WEST SUMNER — Preparations are underway for the beginning of the Summer Church Season at the West Sumner Universalist Society, located on Main Street, Route 219, about a half-mile from Pleasant Pond, at the very top of the hill. The first service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, July 10, with Rev. Richard Beal […]
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Well done – Cassandra Dillon
STANDISH — Cassandra Dillon of Sumner earned the Marketing Award at Saint Joseph’s College, presented to the senior marketing major with the highest cumulative grade point average.
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Posted inOxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Tucker leaving school after 30 years
SUMNER — Clarice Tucker has been the first line of contact at Hartford-Sumner Elementary School for 32 years. As school secretary, she’s the first to receive phone calls from parents and bus drivers, the first to chat with youngsters when they need something, the “nurse” when the school nurse isn’t in, and the person virtually […]
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Bands, dancers and acrobats headed for Open Sky
SUMNER — Open Sky Farm will serve up old-time music with a new twist, fire spinning, dance and aerial acrobatics on Saturday, May 14. Performing will be Sean Mencher and his Rhythm Kings, Johnny Crashed and the Rednecks, Lazzlo, and Girls Guns & Glory. Girls Guns & Glory blends sonic concoctions under the umbrella of […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Parents, grandparents, pre-teens share early Thanksgiving dinner
SUMNER — Trevor McKellor’s parents weren’t able to join him at the annual Thanksgiving dinner at Hartford-Sumner Elementary School on Thursday because they were working. But that was OK. He got to sit with his friend, fellow sixth-grader Kyle Charest, whose father was at the annual event. “I think this is awesome,” Trevor said. “We […]
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Sumner teen dies after fighting illness for months
PORTLAND — A Sumner girl died early Monday morning after a long illness, just 11 days shy of her 18th birthday. Kyraa Locke, a student at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, had been fighting acute pancreatitis since June, when she first entered the Intensive Care Unit at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Kyraa’s mother, Tammy Craw, […]
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Fire truck, ambulance service on Sumner docket
SUMNER — On Monday, Aug. 2, townspeople will vote on 37 articles and a proposed budget of $703,200 at theit annual town meeting. The budget would be an increase over the current one of approximately $20,000, which includes the cost of a new fire department tanker with pump. The town would pay for the balance […]
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Maine court upholds Waterman’s double-murder convictions
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s highest court has upheld the convictions and sentence of a 34-year-old man who’s serving a life sentence for a double murder that stemmed from a dispute over money and drugs. In an unanimous ruling, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of Duane Waterman of Sumner, who […]
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From sugar to sheep at A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm
SUMNER — You know what they say: When it comes to business, it doesn’t pay to be sheepish. Unless, that is, your business happens to be sheep. At A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm on Black Mountain Road, a change is under way. Bubba, the three-quarter European Belgian draft horse won’t be hauling his sleigh full […]