BROWNVILLE — B. Grace Dillon, 71, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Aug. 15, at her home. She was born Feb. 19, 1946, in Norway, the daughter of Ralph F. and Alice E. (Peirce) Dyer. Grace graduated from Casco High School, and she then continued her education on to nursing school. Grace finished her career as a […]
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Brownville woman not contesting murder-for-hire try on husband
DOVER-FOXCROFT (AP) — A Maine woman is not contesting charges she tried to hire someone to kill her husband and has reached a plea deal with prosecutors. WABI-TV reports Monday that Wendy Farley of Brownville entered an Alford plea to charges of criminal solicitation for allegedly offering someone several thousand dollars to kill her husband […]
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Brownville woman’s murder-for-hire trial gets started
DOVER-FOXCROFT (AP) — The trial of a Maine mother of 13 charged with trying to hire someone to kill her husband has started. Forty-eight-year-old Wendy Farley of Brownville is charged with criminal solicitation for allegedly offering someone several thousand dollars to kill her husband of 30 years in September 2012. She has been free on […]
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Brownville hunter pulls himself from Pleasant River after canoe mishap
BROWNVILLE — A 52-year-old Brownville man scrambled out of the Pleasant River before hypothermia could set in after his canoe tipped over as he paddled toward a deer hunting site on Friday, police said. Brownville Police Department Cpl. Chad Perkins met Paul Bucci on Interconnected Trail System 110 near Front Street and took him home […]
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Quebec tragedy brings hardship to Maine rail town
BROWNVILLE (AP) — A central Maine town that’s a hub for a railroad whose runaway oil train derailment killed 47 people in a small Quebec town is feeling the fallout from the accident. Brownville’s normally a noisy place with workers shifting railroad cars around a network of tracks in town. But the accident that brought […]
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Brownville man injured in tumble over Acadia waterfall
ACADIA NATIONAL PARK — A Brownville man was taken to a Bar Harbor hospital Saturday after he fell over a waterfall while hiking up a steep section of trail on Cadillac Mountain, according to an Acadia park ranger. The 44-year-old man was hiking up Canon Brook Trail with two young sons when the incident occurred […]