1935 – 2015 NORWAY — Nancy DeHart Wood, longtime Norway resident, died Monday, Nov. 23, after a brief illness at the home of her son, Peter Wood. She was 80. She was born in Boston on March 5, 1935, to Albert and Susan Greene and grew up in Ashland, Mass., at the family apple orchard. […]
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FBI: 9 of 16 guns stolen from Army Reserve center recovered
BOSTON — Federal authorities have recovered nine of the 16 guns stolen from a Massachusetts Army Reserve facility. The FBI said Monday five of six M4 assault rifles and four of 10 M11 handguns stolen Nov. 14 from the Lincoln Stoddard Army Reserve Center in Worcester are back in the hands of law enforcement. Three […]
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Watch Fenway Park turn into a football stadium
Watch the #RedSox grounds crew take #FenwayPark to another level in preparation for #NDvsBC. #ShamrockSeries pic.twitter.com/kSmI8VOAw3 — Fenway Park (@fenwaypark) November 13, 2015 On Saturday, Boston College (3-7) will play No. 5 Notre Dame in a football game at Fenway Park in Boston. Yes, Fenway. Which isn’t the first football game in the stadium. But […]
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Two men accused of threatening Pokemon competition in Boston
BOSTON — Two Iowa men charged with threatening violence at a Pokemon competition in Boston have been ordered held on $150,000 bail. Kevin Norton, of Ames, and James Stumbo, of Boone, pleaded not guilty to weapons charges during their arraignment Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Prosecutors say the men made social media threats against the […]
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Mark D. Bourassa
1963 – 2015 BOSTON, Mass. — Mark D. Bourassa, 52, of Lewiston, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at Massachusetts General Hospital, due to a brief illness. He was born on Sept. 27, 1963, in Lewiston, the son of Arthur and Roberta (McCaslin) Bourassa. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1983. He was an […]
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David George Cornoni
1959 – 2015 MECHANIC FALLS — David George Cornoni, 56, passed away at his home on Saturday, Oct. 17, after a long illness. He was born on March 23, 1959, in Meriden, Conn., the son of Ronald B. and Anita V. Belanger Cornoni. David attended Greene Central School and Leavitt Area High School before joining […]
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Boston man sentenced in Farmington drug case
FARMINGTON — A Massachusetts man was sentenced Friday to serve 290 days for selling cocaine base in the Farmington area in 2013. Taurus Allen, 36, of Boston pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of a schedule W drug in Franklin County Superior Court. Allen was living in the Farmington area when Farmington […]
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Police identify girl found on Boston Harbor shore
BOSTON — Authorities have identified a young girl who was found dead inside a bag on a Boston Harbor beach this summer and whose case sparked a massive social media campaign to find out what happened to her, a law enforcement official briefed on the case said Friday. Police received information Wednesday that prompted them […]
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New Balance opens new Boston headquarters
BOSTON — New Balance is opening its new global headquarters. The athletic shoe and sports apparel giant planned a tour of the new, 250,000 square foot space in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood on Thursday. Company president and CEO Rob DeMartini is among the scheduled speakers. The new headquarters, located near New Balance’s current home, is part […]
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Freight sails from Portland for sale in Boston
PORTLAND — As she walked along the wharf at 400 West Commercial St., Leah Cook had a question. “So who is schlepping?” she asked of almost a dozen volunteer stevedores helping to go back to the future of seafaring with Maine Sail Freight, a project designed to get consumers and producers to re-examine sustainable interstate […]