LIVERMORE — Staying warm today means dressing in the latest technology — you know those battery-powered long Johns for which you control the temperature with your smartphone? If the Washburn family, who lived in the 1800s, could see us now, they’d mock us — or be jealous. But for all this technology, when Western Maine […]
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Remembering Roselle Coury, Maine’s ‘first lady broadcaster’
This past Thursday, Oct. 25, marked Roselle Coury Fortier’s 100th birthday. Known as one of the top radio personalities in New England in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, the well-known icon at Lewiston’s WCOU radio could do it all. The energetic, outgoing entertainer and broadcaster not only deejayed her own programs, wrote and delivered commercial […]
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History will come alive at 'Ghosts of Freeport’s Past' tours
FREEPORT — The Freeport Historical Society and Freeport Players invite all to join them in the Woodlawn Cemetery on West Street for the ghostly voices of Freeport blacksmiths and shopkeepers at the annual cemetery tour. Walk among the graves and learn about ancestors from the 19th century. All apparitions will be portrayed by actors from the […]
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Robert L. McCleery releases book on history of Farmington fire fighting
FARMINGTON — “History of the Farmington Fire Department 1850-2000: A Volunteer Fire Department” by former Chief Robert L. McCleery will be released this month. With firemen and events updated to 2017, this is a 150-plus year chronicle of Farmington’s glorious firefighting past. The book was compiled, edited and updated by daughter Ruth McCleery Watson. It […]
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Michael Haley
AUBURN — Michael Haley, 75, of Auburn, formerly of South Paris passed away Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Clover Manor. He was born in Norway on Feb.13, 1943, the son of Gerald and Jeanette Downing Haley. He graduated from Paris High School in 1961 and from the University of Maine at Orono with a master’s degree in […]
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Anita Lohman
NEW GLOUCESTER — Anita Lohman, 82, of New Gloucester, passed away in Lewiston on Thursday, Aug. 9. Born in Brunswick on Sept. 11, 1935, to Alfred G. and Hazel Ellis Reeks, Anita lived in Bath until the age of 13 when the family moved to Alden, Mass. She graduated from Malden High School and attended Northeastern […]
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Museum L-A’s dance party Under the Stars II to remember musicians
LEWISTON — Museum L-A invites community members to bring a photo in memory of a professional musician whom they would like to be remembered at the museum’s Dance Party Under the Stars II. The memorial photos of the musicians will be on display at the party on the exterior fence where guests enter to enjoy […]
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The last time Maine's 2nd District ousted a congressman? 1916
One clear lesson from Maine’s political history is that it’s awfully hard to knock a 2nd District congressman out of office. Nobody’s done it, after all, since 1916. Since that September day more than a century ago when Democrat Daniel McGillicuddy of Lewiston went down to defeat, a dozen men and women who held the […]
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Lost Indian tribes topic for Canton Historical Society
CANTON — The Canton Historical Society will present “Lost Indian Tribes of Western Maine” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, at 25 Turner St. Peter Powell will show PowerPoint slides on the period from about 1600 to 1763, when the final treaty of the French and Indian Wars was signed. He will touch on about […]
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Johanna Caroline Moody
AUBURN — Johanna Caroline Halberts Moody, 85, of Poland passed away peacefully Tuesday, July 10, with her family by her side. Johanna was born in Portland on Jan. 25, 1933, to Frederick Halberts and Minette Elwell Halberts. Johanna graduated from Deering High School, and then went on to the University of New Hampshire, where she received […]