WEST GARDINER — With the sun reflecting off the disappearing layer of snow, Judy Abbott was enjoying a calm moment Saturday morning. The turkeys that she and her husband, Tom, raise at Foggy Moon Farm had been shipped off the day before for processing. Customers who have reserved birds will stop by to pick them […]
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Maine company fuels fight against spread of flu
SCARBOROUGH — As another flu season is about to begin, a company in Scarborough that makes rapid diagnostic tests to determine in minutes whether a patient has the flu is ready. Maine and the nation recently suffered through one of the worst seasons for influenza – perhaps since the H1N1 flu outbreak in 2009 – with […]
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Abbott man who led police on long manhunt gets 55 years for murder
BANGOR — Robert Burton was sentenced Friday to serve 55 years in prison for the murder of his former girlfriend, Stephanie Gebo, in June 2015 in a house they once shared in Parkman. Burton sat motionless staring directly ahead as justice Robert Mullen imposed the sentence. Mullen said he was tempted to impose the life […]
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Elinor Goodwin
1917 – 2015 NORWAY — Elinor Goodwin, 97, of Norway passed away Sunday, Nov. 8, at her residence. Elinor was born Nov. 27, 1917, in Oxford, to Joseph Robinson and Elsie Watt Robinson. She grew up riding horses through Oxford’s hills, swimming in the waters of Lake Thompson and reading on the floor of Oxford’s […]
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Auburn firm announces scholarship recipients
AUBURN — The second annual recipients of the Skelton, Taintor & Abbott Lewiston High School Mock Trial Team MVP Scholarship Award are Lewiston High School students Muna Mohamed and Drew Masse. Each will receive a $500 college scholarship from the law firm. Mohamed is senior class president and a delegate to the U.S. Senate Youth […]
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Auburn student engineers target Iowa pest for high-tech contest
AUBURN — Iowa’s cornfields may be quite a distance to the west, but they are weighing heavily this summer on the minds of eight former and current Edward Little High School student engineers. “We’re using an actual Iowa farm as our example, but we are not working there,” said EL Senior Christopher Lenardis. “We’ve never […]
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Rocks thrown through Wilton Post Office windows
WILTON — Police are investigating who threw rocks through the front windows of the Wilton Post Office. Police were called at 6:30 a.m. Saturday after employees discovered the vandalism, Jennifer Farrington, Wilton police administrative assistant, read from Sgt. Chad Abbott’s report. She said there also were concrete fragments broken from the sidewalk in front. The post […]
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China satellite detects object in jet search area
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Search planes headed back out to a desolate patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday in hopes of finding answers to the fate of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, after China released a satellite image showing a large object floating in the search zone. The object, which appeared to […]