1927 – 2015 LEWISTON — Latricia “Terry” Anne Foster, 87, died Saturday, Oct. 31, at the d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston. Born in Auburn on Dec. 30, 1927, she was the daughter of Ralph D. and Alice M. Purington Turner. She was educated locally and worked for 25 years in sales at King’s Department Store, until […]
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Marguerita Heisterman
1916 – 2015 BELMAR, N.J. — Our beloved mother, Marguerita Buchanan Heisterman, 98, died at her home surrounded by family on Saturday, Feb. 21. She was fondly known by her nickname, “Mudge.” She was born May 6, 1916, in Auburn. Following graduation from Edward Little High School in 1934, she attended business school in Atlantic […]
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Froma Harrop: Dreams of getting rich fade as casinos close
The video for the Bruce Springsteen song “Atlantic City” opens with a scene of the grand Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel imploding into a pile of dust. That was almost 40 years ago. The Traymore Hotel and other grand hotels were leveled in much the same spectacular fashion. In their place rose glass boxes and concrete hulks to […]
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Verna A. Cote
1929 – 2013 AUBURN — Verna A. Cote, 84, of Lewiston, passed peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 9, with her loving family surrounding her. She was born on May 6, 1929, to Ortho and Georgianna (Smith) Dolloff in Winthrop and raised in Mt. Vernon, along with her three sisters. She ventured to Connecticut and later to […]
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Miss New York crowned Miss America 2014
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Nina Davuluri became the first contestant of Indian heritage and the second consecutive contestant from New York to win the Miss America pageant Sunday night. Davuluri, 24, won the title as the nationally televised pageant returned home to Atlantic City. She succeeds another Miss New York, Mallory Hagan, whose tenure […]