My family has worked for a long time caring for each other at home. My husband and our children carry a serious genetic disorder, Marfans Syndrome, which means that our lives have been filled with surgeries to help us function; pain is a daily reality. We have dealt with other disabling conditions as well. Despite […]
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Phyllis Briggs celebrates 93rd birthday DIXFIELD — Phyllis M. Briggs celebrated her 93rd birthday with a family trip to Salem, Massachusetts. Briggs, a daughter of Pearl L. and William M. Jordan, was born July 5, 1925. She married Dale Briggs in 1965. Briggs has 10 children and has been blessed with a posterity of 33 grandchildren, […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 7
100 years ago: 1918 Miss Lenora Chaplin, Lewiston-Auburn’s first Red Cross nurse, has been in town on a short furlough from duty. She is in-service at the temporary camp at Mineola, N. Y., where is there is a military hospital of 1500 beds. It is expected that the camp will be broken by this fall, […]
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Debbie B. Rowe
TURNER — On Monday, Aug. 27, Debbie B. Rowe, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend, passed away unexpectedly in her home at the age of 67. Debbie is predeceased by her parents, Spencer and Winona Pearson. Debbie will be forever remembered by her wonderful children, Stephanie, Lisa and Ryan; her beautiful grandchildren, Amanda and Jordan; her […]
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Michael James Moody
BRUNSWICK — Michael James Moody, 63, of Bostwick Road passed away Sunday, Sept. 2, at his home. He was born in Augusta on June 29, 1955, the son of James Moody and Caroline Leclair. He attended schools in Lewiston. Michael was retired and was a jack-of-all-trades. He enjoyed his Westerns, fishing and playing cards with his […]
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Thelma Milligan
RUMFORD — Thelma Milligan, 91, died Wednesday, Sept. 5, at her residence in Rumford with her loving family by her side. She was born in Rumford on March 16, 1927, the daughter of John and Ruth (Glover) Trenoweth, and graduated from Stephens High School in Rumford, Class of 1945. She was head of the Meals on […]
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Museum L-A to hold dance party of part of festival weekend
LEWISTON — Museum L-A will be holding an event, Dance Party Under the Stars II, from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at their future home on Beech Street. This event will help kick off L-A’s festival weekend, which also includes the premier of the L/A Poutine Feast-ival and pichenotte tournament and the two-day annual Lewiston-Auburn Greek […]
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Ann Sparrow Williams
MORRISTOWN, Vt. — Ann Sparrow Williams died Aug. 27 in Morristown, Vt., having lived an “unremarkable, but delightful life,” according to an entry in one of her journals. She was 89. Some might take issue with her dismissive descriptor, noting her successful efforts aimed at helping preserve the Vermont State House as well as her athletic […]
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No figuring out Democrats
What? On one side of their mouths, liberal leftists are all concerned about possible Russian interference in America’s elections; yet, on the other side of their mouths, they want to allow non-citizens to vote in elections. Go figure. Joan Villani, Lewiston
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The population threat to China's prosperity
While the Chinese Communist government basks in China’s economic success, several terrible authoritarian decisions made in Beijing put the country’s stability and sustained prosperity at risk. Though a forbidden public topic, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre haunts the government. Chinese citizens bitterly resent the massacre, its cloak of totalitarian silence and Beijing’s continued police state […]