The Supreme Judicial Court rules against Philip Scott Fournier, 57, who appealed his conviction for murdering 16-year-old Joyce McLain in East Millinocket.
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Next step for Mike Michaud after Congress: His local select board
Never one to stop serving, the former Maine representative with deep ties to East Millinocket looks to help rebulid the mill town.
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Maine’s high court hear appeal of conviction in Joyce McLain murder case
The state’s highest court will hear arguments Wednesday in the appeal of the man convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl in East Millinocket in 1980. Philip Scott Fournier, a longtime suspect in the teenager’s death, was charged and arrested in 2016. He was convicted of murder by Superior Court Justice Ann Murray after a bench trial in February […]
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Verna J. Greeley
AUBURN — Verna J. Ayotte Greeley, 82, of East Poland, died Friday evening, April 13, at Clover Manor in Auburn, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Millinocket on April 3, 1936, a daughter of Joseph and Gertrude Ayotte. Verna attended the St. Martin of Tours in Millinocket. As a young woman, Verna married […]
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School choice not a good choice for rural school districts
EAST MILLINOCKET — The small parking lot outside of Schenck High School was crammed with cars, all there for the basketball game, the town’s featured event that night. The cold winter air whipped around white mounds of snow lining the town’s few residential streets and past the school to the vast blackness of Interstate 95. […]
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Police arrest suspect in 35-year-old killing of Joyce McLain
EAST MILLINOCKET — Maine state police say investigators have made an arrest in the killing of a teenager that took place 36 years ago. State police arrested Philip Scott Fournier of East Millinocket in connection with the 1980 killing of 16-year-old Joyce McLain. Fournier was being held on a murder charge at the Penobscot County […]
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East Millinocket national park informational session sparks ‘friendly’ debate
EAST MILLINOCKET — Tom St. John, a Katahdin region businessman who favors a proposed north woods national park, had several minutes of convivial talk Thursday with former Millinocket Town Councilor John Raymond, a park opponent. Unremarkable by itself, the low-key conversation underlined a goal of the informational session hosted at Schenck High School: To get […]
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National park proponents ramping up campaign in East Millinocket and beyond
EAST MILLINOCKET — The increasingly active campaign to convince Mainers that a proposed north woods national park and recreation area should become a reality will hold another informational session next week. Organizers have scheduled the event at Schenck High School at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. It is part of plans to “begin a greater […]
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California investor completes $5.4 million purchase of bankrupt GNP
EAST MILLINOCKET — A California investor and a court-appointed trustee finalized a $5.4 million sale agreement Friday for the assets of the bankrupt Great Northern Paper Co. Hackman Capital Partners of Los Angeles wired funds and finalized the mill purchase agreement with bankruptcy trustee Pasquale J. “Pat” Perrino on Friday, in exchange for the bill […]
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Suitors to bid Monday on Great Northern Paper mill
Bidders for the shuttered Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket are set to put forward their best offers Monday morning before a Tuesday hearing to determine a buyer for the bankrupt mill. In early November, the court set out an 11 a.m. Monday deadline for bids. On the day a bankruptcy court judge set […]