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Votes are in: Camp Sunshine wins

AUBURN — Day’s Jewelers of Auburn presented a $5,000 grant from Jewelers for Children to Camp Sunshine in Casco recently. Camp Sunshine, established in 1984, is dedicated to helping children, along with their families, cope with serious illnesses. Jewelers For Children, a nonprofit organization founded by the jewelry industry in 1999, is dedicated to helping […]

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Days after 11-year-old's touching act of kindness, mother dies

LEWISTON — Last month, Michelle James cried happy tears in the hospital when she saw on the news that her 11-year-old son, Kaden, was surprising her with jewelry for Christmas. She was touched by his thoughtfulness. Michelle had undergone 16 surgeries in nine months as doctors tried to fight off a flesh-eating bacteria that started […]

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Auburn jewelry store plays Santa for 11-year-old's sick mom

AUBURN — Kaden James’ mom Michelle has had a terrible year: 16 surgeries and an amputated left leg as doctors try to fight off flesh-eating bacteria. Monday night, after visiting his mother in the ICU at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, the 11-year-old joined his grandmother for grocery shopping. He told her he wanted […]

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Greg L. "Greg" Arsenault

UPDATE FROM 2 PORTER BRIDGE ROAD — Gregory L. “Greg” Arsenault, 62, of 2 Porter Bridge Rd. in Mexico, logged out of Facebook for the last time on Tuesday, Sept. 19. He passed away peacefully at CMMC in Lewiston surrounded by loving family following a courageous battle. He was born in Rumford on Aug. 13, 1955, […]