Maine is done with heavy snow accumulations for now, but the Thanksgiving holiday week promises to bring extreme cold to the region. Even though the official start of winter is still more than a month away, Thanksgiving Day temperatures could drop into the single digits, with high temperatures of 17 degrees forecast for Lewiston-Auburn and […]
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Storm coats Maine in snow from Kittery to Fort Kent
Mike Spencer clears the snow from the walkway in front of his home on Riverside Street in Lewiston on Friday. “I put him up every Thanksgiving,” Spencer said of his inflatable turkey. “I enjoy decorating for Halloween and Christmas, too.” (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) It’s that time of year again! Check out this video for some […]
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Gilmay I. Cayer
AUBURN — Gilmay I. Cayer, 79, of Lewiston peacefully passed away at the Sarah Frye Home in Auburn on Wednesday, May 23, with her loving family by her side. She was born in Madawaska on Oct. 23, 1938, a daughter of the late Joseph and Irene (Chasse) Fraser. At a young age, her family moved to […]
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This is a very special time
We are at a very special time of year. Thanksgiving has passed and we are nearly to Christmas. Thanksgiving was a time to remember how God has blessed us in the past and Christmas will be a time to remember how God blessed us with the birth of Jesus Christ to be the one who […]
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Marie Beaule Therrien
BIDDEFORD — Marie Beaule Therrien, 86, of Biddeford, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 21. Family came from miles away to pay their last respects. Marie was born Jan. 29, 1931 in Lewiston, a daughter of John and Yolande (Dostie) Beaulè. On Oct. 25, 1952, she married Normand F. Therrien at St. Mary’s Church in Lewiston. They spent […]
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Serving up a grand Thanksgiving meal from the heart
LEWISTON — Most people use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to give thanks, as the name implies, but this year Tammy Wilson wanted to use it as a chance to give something from her heart. Wilson and her husband, James, manage the Travel Inn on Lisbon Street and the Winthrop Motel on Route 202. She decided […]
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Helping to feed those in need on Thanksgiving
Lisa Tibbetts-Beaudoin of Lewiston, her daughter Sophie, 13, and her son Mason, 14, gather seven Thanksgiving meals-to-go at the Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston on Thursday. The Beaudoin family helped make sure that 250 people in need had meals on Thanksgiving. Chef Arnaldo Cruz started cooking 26 turkeys on Tuesday evening to feed the […]
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Jay's Thursday curbside pickup moves to Friday for holiday
JAY — Curbside trash and recyclables collection for this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, will be moved to Friday. If your trash is normally picked up Thursday, you should put out trash and recyclables for Friday pickup. The Wednesday route will remain the same. Thursday collections will resume next week.
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Police warn people not to eat turkeys plucked from the trash
FALMOUTH — The police department warns residents to steer clear of black market Butterballs. The local Hannaford tossed several prematurely-thawed turkeys into their trash bin. Store employees later found the discarded turkeys missing. “These turkeys were discarded because they were a hazard to consume,” the Falmouth Police Department wrote on its Facebook page. “If anyone […]
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George Popham, Ronald Reagan and Maine’s role in America’s first Thanksgiving
Just before the last ship returned to England in the fall of 1607, leaving the Popham colonists to face a brutal Maine winter, the colonists reached out to a nearby friendly Indian named Nahaniida.