PARIS — Beacon Hospice of Auburn recently honored Lawrence W. Crocker at the Maine Veterans’ Home on High Street. Crocker, who served in the U.S. Army, was joined by his son, daughter-in-law, grandson and fiancée, and two granddaughters. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2010 to […]
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Spring Nature Day Camp with Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed
WINTHROP — The Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed’s 11th annual Spring Nature Day Camp will be held during April school vacation week at the YMCA Camp of Maine on Cobbossee Lake in East Winthrop. Two two-day sessions will be offered: • Tuesday, April 18, through Wednesday, April 19; and • Thursday, April 20, through Friday, April […]
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Joshua Eliot receives MPA Principal's Award
BETHEL — Josh Eliot of Bethel, a senior at Telstar Regional High School, has been selected to receive the 2017 Principal’s Award, Principal Cheryl Lang announced today. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship. “Josh exemplifies what Telstar (Regional) High School […]
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St. Dom's student wins scholarship
PORTLAND — The Catholic Foundation of Maine announced that Antoinette “Annie” Carman, a senior at Saint Dominic Academy in Auburn, has received a 2017 Lila Grace Sullivan Amirault Scholarship. The scholarship helps Maine Catholic high school students with college tuition costs. It was established in 2013 by Patrick Amirault in memory of his wife. Amirault, […]
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Words for Thirds
Members of the West Minot Grange No. 42 David and Hester Gilpatric present 45 copies the 24th edition of “A Student’s Dictionary” to third-graders at Minot Consolidated School on March 9. Hester Gilpatric is pictured with students and teachers, from left, Tucker Nelson, Madelyn Dow, Linda Bernier, Jennifer French, Brock Hamel and Miguel Cyr.
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U.S. Alpine Championships: A lot on the line for Ankeny at Sugarloaf
Michael Ankeny skis during the men’s combined at the 2016 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships at Sun Valley, Idaho. Michael Ankeny broke onto the national skiing scene as a 19-year-old, thanks to a U.S. Alpine junior championship in the slalom at Sugarloaf in 2008. Nine years later, Ankeny returns to the Western Maine mountain at […]
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Utah governor will sign strictest DUI limit in U.S. at .05
Ed Staley, left, and Tali Bruce, right, attend a rally at the Utah State Capitol Friday, March 17, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Utah’s hospitality industry is urging Gov. Gary Herbert to veto a bill giving Utah the strictest DUI threshold in the country, lowering the blood alcohol limit to .05 percent, down from .08 […]
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Sen. Chuck Schumer says Dems will fillibuster Gorsuch nomination
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. WASHINGTON — As the Senate Judiciary Committee was hearing from witnesses for and against Judge Neil Gorsuch, his Supreme Court nomination was delivered a critical blow: Senate Minority Leader Charles […]
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U.S. investigates Paul Manafort's offshore financial transactions
WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned. Information about Manafort’s transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working […]
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Gov. Paul LePage to testify against national monument
In this Aug. 4, 2015, file photo, the Wassataquoik Stream flows through Township 3, Range 8, Maine, on land owned by environmentalist Roxanne Quimby, the founder of Burts Bees. Maine Gov. Paul LePage has asked Republican President Donald Trump to undo Democratic former President Barack Obama’s designation of a national monument and give back the […]