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Pauline L. Colson

NORWAY — Pauline L. Colson, 99, died Tuesday, Sept. 15, at a Norway health care center, following a long illness. Pauline was born and raised in Carmel, the daughter of Lester and Lura (Palmer) Sprague. She was married to Perley P. Colson, who predeceased her in 1997. Following his death, she moved to South Paris […]

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Raymond A. Thibodeau

1946 – 2015 CARMEL, N.Y. — Raymond Alphee Thibodeau, born May 31, 1946, a loving father, stepfather and husband, passed away at his home in Carmel, N.Y., on Monday, Sept. 7. He was 69. He was born and raised in Lewiston, where he spent most of his life. He moved to Carmel, N.Y., in September […]

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Alicia C. Parker

1955 – 2015 MONMOUTH — Alicia C. Parker, 60, of Monmouth passed away very unexpectedly on Tuesday, July 14, at her new home in Monmouth. She was born in Portland on Jan. 17, 1955, the daughter of Theodore W. Gilliam Sr. and Helen Lorring Gilliam. Alicia attended grade school in Portland and also Portland High […]

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Police ID woman shot by officer while wielding weapon in Carmel

CARMEL (AP) — Authorities have released the name of the woman shot by a sheriff’s deputy in central Maine after advancing toward the deputy holding what was described as a homemade weapon. A spokesman for the state Attorney General’s office said Monday that Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Kari Kurth shot and wounded 20-year-old Alexis Lannon, […]

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Police unlikely to charge anyone in Maine’s worst vehicle crash

CARMEL — Maine police say it is unlikely that criminal charges will follow a massive Interstate 95 pileup involving dozens of cars in February. State police released a summary of their findings and conclusions about the crash on Wednesday. The crash happened on I-95 northbound in Carmel and Etna on Feb. 25. The report increases […]

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Retired Carmel Marine recalls 1983 Beirut bombings

BANGOR — The massive suicide bombing that ripped apart the four-story Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, early Oct. 23, 1983 — killing 241 U.S. troops — violently shook Carmel resident Mark Nevells and other Marines from their Sunday morning slumber, he remembers. “I grabbed my gear and ran to the barracks,” Nevells, who was 21 […]

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Carmel firefighter injured in truck crash

CARMEL — A female Carmel volunteer firefighter was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center by ambulance after the firetruck she was a passenger in drifted off Route 69 in Carmel, coming to rest just feet from a cluster of roadside trees. The crash happened in the area of 409 Hampden Road in Carmel, part of […]