The Lisbon-born pugilist spent 15 years in the ring and was one fight away from getting a shot at a world title.
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Rumford boys basketball’s three titles in four years were a group effort
Many players took on big roles over the four-year run by the Panthers, culminating in a New England championship and three Class A titles.
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Dirigo field hockey turned an upset win into a three-year run of dominance
Only one other school has joined Dirigo as winners of three consecutive Class C titles in field hockey — Dexter, which won four straight from 2000-03.
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Eight killed in Auburn in fiery 1985 plane crash, including Samantha Smith
“The world was stunned on a rainy August night when a Bar Harbor Airlines plane crashed and burned in Auburn, claiming eight lives. “Among the victims was 13-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, who became an American sweetheart in 1983 after visiting the Soviet Union at the invitation of the late Yuri Andropov,” the leader of […]
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Ice storm shut down Maine in 1998
The lack of electrical power for almost a week in Lewiston-Auburn closed businesses, shut schools and prompted linemen from across the country to assist in restoring power.
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Flood of 1896 washed out bridges, buildings along the length of the Androscoggin River
When it began to rain on Saturday, Feb. 28, 1896, a foot of snow lay across Androscoggin County. Farmers and tradespeople rushed to get home before the roads got so soft, slushy and muddy that travel would become difficult or perhaps impossible. Nobody knew that “the most malicious of Maine freshets” had just begun. The […]
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Sixteen babies perished in 1945 Auburn fire
A stove explosion was blamed for the deadly fire at the ‘baby farm.’
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Big floods have washed out Lewiston and Auburn
Among the worst years for flooding were 1896, 1936 and 1987.
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Lewiston’s impressive City Hall went up in flames in 1890
When Lewiston City Hall caught fire on Jan. 7, 1890, flames leapt 200 feet in the air as the blaze turned the monumental structure into a pile of rubble in little more than an hour. “It was a carnival of fire,” the Lewiston Evening Journal reported, “an enormous boiling furnace” so bright that it lit […]
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Over the years, at least 129 people have drowned in the Androscoggin River in Maine
Nine out of 10 known victims were male, often boys, and about half of those killed in the river were 18 or younger.