WALES — Inspired by a school motto, “Failure is not an option,” Sarah Desjardins told graduating classmates that, really, failure is inevitable, but it’s the aftermath that counts. “We need to take our failures and learn from them and grow from them and become better people,” she said Friday, recounting her valedictorian address. Desjardins spoke […]
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Section of Route 126 temporarily closed due to high water
SABATTUS — A section of Route 126 in Sabattus was closed Tuesday afternoon by the Maine Department of Transportation due to the high water level under the bridge near Steven’s Hardware, according to Town Manager Andrew Gilmore. Travelers should look for a detour route through High Street and Maine streets. The detour will re-direct traffic […]
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Sabattus town meeting draws crowd
SABATTUS — They needed at least 25 residents to come out on an overcast, rainy Saturday morning in order to have enough for a quorum. Instead, town officials were met with 80 people ready to talk about jobs, roads, emergency medical services and everything else related to the town’s 2012-13 budget at what might be […]
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Cheryl Breton Pelletier
AUBURN — Cheryl Breton Pelletier, 63, of Sabattus passed away Tuesday, May 29, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice . She was born in Lewiston on Dec. 11, 1948, the daughter of the late Leon Alfred Breton and Shirley Moores Breton. She was educated in Auburn schools graduating from Edward Little […]
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Post to note original Memorial Day LEWISTON — The George Armstrong Custer Post 7, Grand Army of the Republic Association, will celebrate the original Memorial Day, as set after the Civil War, at noon Wednesday, May 30, at the grave of Stephen Marriner, Riverside Cemetery, Main Street. Marriner died in 1864 in a Confederate Prison […]
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Informational meetings called on repairs, future of Sabattus, Litchfield, Wales schools
WALES — After years of spending little on capital improvements, RSU 4 faces a choice, Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said. Borrow $1.8 million to make building repairs or go for a larger bond, close the two oldest elementary schools and build an addition for those students elsewhere. But where? The district has called two informational meetings […]
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Sabattus voters to consider jobs, roads at what might be its last town meeting Saturday
SABATTUS — At what could be the last traditional town meeting, voters Saturday will be asked to restore three positions and raise significant funds for roadwork. Later this fall they’ll consider doing away with gathering on a Saturday and raising a hand to vote. Town Manager Andrew Gilmore said if everything supported by selectmen in […]
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Pilot program wraps, Sabattus voters to decide: Keep new EMS service?
SABATTUS — Volunteers have shown up when a man wasn’t breathing, when people fell on ice, when two babies needed aid and at a turnpike rollover that rattled the driver and scraped up his dog. After a nearly-six month pilot project, next week at town meeting voters will decide whether to make the fire department’s […]