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Edward J. Ledoux Jr.

TURNER — Edward J. Ledoux Jr. of Turner, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 2. He was born on May 25, 1935, in Nashua, N.H., a son of the late Edward J. Ledoux Sr. and Yvonne (Collier) Ledoux. Ed graduated from Nashua High School in 1953 and on June 23, 1956, he married the love of […]

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Junior Hockey: Fighting Spirit swat away Minutemen in OT

MIDDLETON, Mass. — Walker Hamilton scored 2:26 into overtime to lift the visiting L/A Fighting Spirit over the East Coast Minutemen, 3-2, in an NA3HL game at Essex Sports Center on Sunday. The win gave the Fighting Spirit a weekend sweep of the home-and-home series, after Saturday’s 4-1 win in Lewiston. Hamilton’s goal finished off […]

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Fans can’t get enough of racing event

BANGOR— Bangor’s Nelson Savage remembers when he and other members of the Bangor Jaycees would spend weeks preparing Bass Park in Bangor for the annual snowmobile races around the harness track oval in the 1960s and ’70s. “Every winter, people would look forward to it. When they stopped, it left a void,” Savage said. Competitive […]

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Feds approve oil exploration off US Eastern Coast

ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH, Fla. — The Obama administration has sided with energy developers over environmentalists, approving the use of underwater blasts of sound to pinpoint oil and gas deposits in federal Atlantic Ocean waters. The regulatory decision is the first real step toward what could be an economic transformation in East Coast states, potentially creating […]

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Winter storm disrupts travel along East Coast

PHILADELPHIA — Another round of winter weather followed a day of unseasonable temperatures in the eastern United States on Monday, with several inches of snow closing schools, disrupting air traffic and snarling travel for people trying to return home from the Super Bowl. Fat, wet flakes were falling Monday afternoon and could total 8 inches […]