ALEXANDER — Roger H. Jr., 79, of Poland, died Saturday, Dec. 9. A celebration of Roger’s life will take place at Fortin/Auburn on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m. with Marine Corps military honors. Those wishing, in lieu of flowers, may make a charitable contribution in Roger’s memory to the Kora Shrine Hospital, co Kora […]
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Teen driver killed on way to school
TOPSFIELD — An 18-year-old Brookton Plantation man driving to school was killed in a collision with a tractor-trailer Wednesday morning. Dylan Porter was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which occurred at about 7:10 a.m. on U.S. Route 1 about two miles north of Route 6, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reported. Porter […]
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Van Buren man known as ‘Border Guy’ gets 10 years for running cocaine from Texas to Canada
BANGOR — A Van Buren man known as “The Border Guy” was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 10 years in prison for his role in a drug-running scheme that brought cocaine from Texas to Canada through Maine. Robert Rossignol, 61, pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to […]
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Reporters notebook: Amnott retiring; this time he means it
LEWISTON — Did you hear? Paul Amnott is retiring. Again. He means it this time: r-e-t-i-r-i-n-g. Amnott, a 37-year veteran for the Lewiston School Department, and long-time assistant principal at Lewiston High School, retired in June 2012. At least, that was his plan. A few months later, Lewiston Superintendent Bill Webster got news that Lewiston […]
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New Lee Academy headmaster looks to maintain school’s progress, improve F grade
LEE — When Bruce Lindberg became Lee Academy’s headmaster in 2005, the school’s board of trustees gave him a grim task, he says. Find new revenue sources, board members said, or you will be our last headmaster. The semi-public high school’s dwindling population and revenues made its closure inevitable, Lindberg said. So he embarked upon […]