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Memorial Day Weekend events
on May 23, 2013, at 6:43 p.m.
AROOSTOOK COUNTY Prayer services will be held at 12 Catholic cemeteries in Aroostook County over Memorial Day weekend, May 25-27, as follows: 11:30 a.m. May 26, St. Mark’s Cemetery, Ashland; 9:30 a.m. May 27, Old Holy Rosary Cemetery, Caribou; 10 a.m. May 27, New Holy Rosary Cemetery, Caribou; noon May ...
Central Maine hospitals partner with Mass General to treat cancer patients
LEWISTON, Maine — Brian Jordan remembers feeling lethargic when he visited the doctor on March 17, 2011. The Livermore Falls man never expected that later that day he’d receive a diagnosis of leukemia that would turn his life upside down. In an unlikely twist of fate, Jordan, 54, was sickened ...
New Hampshire man to spend 4 years in prison for robberies in Biddeford, Saco
SACO, Maine — A New Hampshire man will spend the next four years behind bars after he was sentenced Monday on robbery charges, police said. Wayne Thompson, 27, of Derry, N.H. was sentenced to 10 years in prison with all but four years suspended and three years probation, according to ...
Lisbon man gets 4 years in prison for using son’s Social Security number to hide income, get benefits
PORTLAND, Maine — A Lisbon man who used his 7-year-old son’s Social Security number to hide his income while receiving other benefits was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to four years in prison. Mark Judd, 34, pleaded guilty in January to theft of federal funds, making false statements, Social ...
Oxford Casino sale waiting on gambling board license
By Tony Reaves, Sun Journal on May 22, 2013, at 11:04 a.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Oxford Casino won’t be asked to apply for a new casino operator’s license if the Gambling Control Board approves the casino’s pending sale to Churchill Downs Incorporated Properties. The Gambling Control Board is running a background investigation on Churchill Downs, Director Patrick Fleming said at Tuesday’s ...
Maine at War
There was standing room only for the heroes of Chancellorsville
By Brian Swartz, Special Sections Editor on May 22, 2013, at 9:01 a.m.
“Through smoke and fire and shot and shell, unto the very walls of hell, we did stand and we did stay, in that Virginia field so far away”: Thus does a paraphrased verse from John Tam’s “Over the Hills and Far Away” describe the fate that befell the valiant heroes ...
Lewiston moves toward fake pot, bath salts prohibition
By Scott Taylor, Sun Journal on May 22, 2013, at 8:58 a.m.
LEWISTON, Maine — Police are calling for local rules that ban bath salts and other synthetic drugs, closing a gap in federal and state rules. “We are seeing this stuff in the stores locally, and it is of special concern to us,” Lewiston police Chief Michael Bussiere told city councilors ...
With help from community, Lewiston fire victims putting lives, homes back together
By dmcintire on May 22, 2013, at 6:38 a.m.
LEWISTON, Maine — Weeks after fires destroyed downtown apartment buildings, displacing as many as 200 people, families are finally finding themselves at home again. On Tuesday afternoon, only five blocks from their former 172 Blake St. apartment, Adriana and Jamie Garcia were rebuilding their lives in their new dwelling on ...
Oxford County man accused of drug trafficking
PERU, Maine — A Peru man is facing a drug charge after a bust at his home on Monday, according to police. A search warrant was executed at the Stagecoach Road home of 19-year-old John Gallant after police learned he was conducting a distribution operation, according to Cmdr. Scott Pelletier ...
Auburn school budget, tax increase, sent to the voters
By Scott Taylor, Sun Journal on May 21, 2013, at 6:30 a.m.
AUBURN, Maine — Councilors held their noses Monday night and accepted a school budget they admit has little chance of getting voter approval. “I was against the school budget because I thought it was too high, and it passed,” Councilor David Young said. “This year, I think it’s extremely high, ...
Sneeze causes two-car crash in Farmington
By Ann Bryant, Sun Journal on May 21, 2013, at 6:22 a.m.
FARMINGTON, Maine — A driver’s sneeze resulted in her car crossing the centerline and striking a car on Routes 2 and 4 near the Wilton town line Monday morning, according to Farmington police officer Darin Gilbert. Mykayla Mitchell, 19, of Livermore Falls complained of neck pain and was transported to ...
Lewiston man walks when alleged victim of fork stabbing incident won’t talk
AUBURN, Maine — A Lewiston man facing up to 30 years in prison was freed from jail Monday after the victim of a barbecue-fork stabbing — in an action rarely seen in court — invoked on the witness stand his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Most Androscoggin County courthouse workers ...
Man injured when motorcycle hits stopped car in New Sharon
NEW SHARON, Maine — A Dixfield man suffered minor injuries when the motorcycle he was driving ran into the back of a car on Route 2, Franklin County Lt. David Rackliffe said Monday. Keith Langervin, 22, was reported to have been thrown over the car by the force of the ...
School, state, tax error driving Auburn budget
AUBURN, Maine — Three things are driving the city’s budget up this year, according to City Manager Clinton Deschene: school spending, state revenue cuts and an accounting error from last year. Deschene said he hopes councilors will settle at least one question at Monday night’s meeting. “My instinct is that ...
Riding lawnmower catches fire, burns Rumford garage
RUMFORD, Maine — Rumford and Mexico firefighters were sent to a tractor and structure fire on Route 2 late Saturday afternoon. But when they arrived, the tractor, a small riding lawnmower, had been pulled away from a garage at 1086 Route 2 and flames on the garage wall were extinguished. ...
Job openings on the rise as Maine slowly climbs back from recession
Two weeks ago, Pete Waterman spray painted a large plywood sign and propped it on his lawn near a bunch of tractors. “Good help wanted.” “To me, ‘help wanted’ didn’t quite explain what I was looking for,” said Waterman, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Sabattus. “I wanted to let people ...
Woman suffers injuries in 3-vehicle Rumford crash
RUMFORD — A Rhode Island woman in town for a wedding this weekend was injured Friday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash on Route 108 at the Congress Street intersection, police said. Cynthia Conant-Arp, 65, of Warwick, R.I., complained of a neck injury and was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford ...
Lewiston’s Zam Zam Mohamud becomes first Somali immigrant on school board
LEWISTON, Maine — Zam Zam Mohamud, described as popular and well-regarded in the community by a Bates College professor, is the city’s first Somali to serve on the Lewiston School Committee. Her appointment is a turning point for Lewiston, “when our city representatives begin to reflect our shifting demographics,” said ...
Oxford Hills Bookmobile losing funding this month
By Leslie H. Dixon, Sun Journal on May 17, 2013, at 6:03 a.m.
NORWAY, Maine — The popular Oxford Hills Bookmobile may come to a stop if funding isn’t found by May 31 to keep the wheels rolling this summer. The eight-year-old program, a collaboration between Oxford Hills/Buckfield Adult Education and Norway Memorial Library, served 775 children at nine locations weekly for six ...
Dixfield teen riding atop car roof pinned under it after rollover
MEXICO, Maine — A Dixfield teenager who was riding on a car roof Thursday afternoon on Thad White Road was pinned under the car when it rolled into a drainage ditch, police said. Firefighters from Mexico, Rumford and Dixfield lifted the rear of the car and held it up, allowing ...
LePage tells legislative leaders he’s moving out of State House because of ‘censorship’
Maine Sports Hall of Fame member, DJ Dana Wilson convicted of child pornography possession
Lincoln’s Coffee Pot Cafe shuts its doors
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Governor Veto
Goodwin steps down as Brewer High School boys basketball coach
Tommy Lawrence pitches UMaine baseball to victory in first America East tournament game
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