1922 – 2016 SOUTH PARIS — Elliot Lauriston Wiggin, 94, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 6, at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris, where he was a resident. He was born Nov. 8, 1922, to Roy and Ida Louise Wiggin in Westbrook, and graduated in 1941 from Gorham High School. In 1943, he joined the […]
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Paris selectmen opt to lay new sewer lines, waterlines for Police Department
PARIS — Foreigner’s lyrics, “You’re as cold as ice,” unfortunately rang true for the Paris police station over the past three weeks as the sewer lines and waterlines froze three times, leaving employees mostly unable to use water until a holding tank was rented. At their meeting Monday night, selectmen voted 3-1 to discontinue the existing […]
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Board votes to keep Paris streetlights burning
PARIS — Selectmen voted unanimously to keep 41 streetlights illuminated, following a public hearing Monday night at the Paris Fire Station. The hearing was attended by about 25 residents. A number of them voiced concern that the risk to public safety was not worth the minimal savings the town would realize by turning off the lights. […]
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Former Bangor doctor’s body found in Green Lake
ELLSWORTH — The body of a former Bangor radiologist was found early Friday morning in Green Lake, according to the Maine Warden Service. Ellsworth police received a call around 11:40 p.m. Thursday that Frank Mroz, 66, of Manchester, N.H., had not returned from a dive in Green Lake, warden service Cpl. John MacDonald said Friday […]
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Myrtle H. Haney
1936 – 2013 FARMINGTON — Myrtle H. Haney, 77, of Farmington, passed away Thursday, July 11, at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington. She was born in Elliot in 1936, the daughter of John and Helen Hoyt. She was educated in Elliot through her freshman year of high school before moving to Temple and graduating from […]