MECHANIC FALLS — The Anglican Church and the Mechanic Falls Historical Society are sponsoring an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17 at the Anglican Church, 64 Elm St, A barbershop quartet, part of the Downeaster Chorus, will initiate the event with a “hearty burst of familiar favorites” in the church hall. The […]
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Historical society, church members meeting to plan concert
MECHANIC FALLS — The Mechanic Falls Historical Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, at the Anglican Church of the Transfiguration, formerly the First Congregational Church, 64 Elm St. The historical society and Anglican Church members are planning an organ concert on Sunday, Sept. 10. The concert, titled “ORGAN PLUS,” will feature nationally […]
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Cassidy Charette’s family settles lawsuit in fatal hayride crash
The family of the Oakland 17-year-old girl killed in a Mechanic Falls hayride accident in 2014 has settled a wrongful death lawsuit. Cassidy Charette was killed when the haunted hayride at Harvest Hill Farm overturned. More than a dozen other people were injured when the wagon flipped. The family brought a wrongful death lawsuit against […]
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Church member returns weather vane to original shape
MECHANIC FALLS — When the roof of the First Congregational Church was replaced in 2003, it was discovered that the steeple had extensive wood rot and had to come down permanently. The steeple had sat atop the church roof since 1848, when the church was built, along with a copper weather vane which had adorned […]
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Sharon E. Seamon
OXFORD — Sharon E. Seamon, 70, of Oxford passed away Friday, July 21, at her home surrounded by her family. She was born in Mechanic Falls on January 25, 1947, a daughter of Erlon and Theva Fickett Pike and graduated from Oxford High School. Sharon worked 19 years at Robinson Manufacturing in Oxford and 21 […]
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Thelma "Teddy" Hedges
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Thelma L. “Teddy” Hedges, 91, of Columbia, Mo., and Syracuse, N.Y., formerly of Mechanic Falls, died on Jan. 17, 2017, in Columbia, Mo. Teddy was born on March 4, 1925 in Norway, the daughter of Philip Woodman and Ethel (Walker) Prince, both of whom proceeded her in death. Her sister, Mariam Blair of […]
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Dorothy C. Coffin
AUBURN — Dorothy Chipman Coffin, 87, of Poland Spring died early Friday morning, June 23, at Clover Manor in Auburn. She was born on June 12, 1930, in Poland, a daughter of Merle A. and Georgia (Hamilton) Chipman. She attended schools at Ricker Hill in Poland Spring, Fryeburg Academy and graduated from Edward Little High School […]
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Voters to decide on $21.69M school budget
Voters in Poland, Minot and Mechanic Falls will cast ballots their ballots Tuesday, June 13, on the Regional School Unit 16 budget. The school budget ballot question reads: “Do you favor approving the Regional School Unit Sixteen (16) budget for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year that was adopted at the latest Regional School Unit budget […]
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A new walking surface
Under the supervision of the Maine Department of Transportation, a crew from T Buck Construction of Auburn jackhammers the crumbling concrete on the sidewalk of the bridge spanning the Little Androscoggin River in downtown Mechanic Falls on Tuesday afternoon. The sidewalk resurfacing work is one of many maintenance projects the state agency is doing this […]
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Casting upon the waters
Markus Allan of Lisbon casts into the Little Androscoggin River along Route 121 in Mechanic Falls on Tuesday afternoon. The experienced fisherman was catching fish and didn’t have any problems with the hanging branches like others have, judging from the bobbers and tackle tangled in the trees.