Ford plans to cut about 10 percent of staff worldwide as Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields faces escalating pressure to boost profit and a lagging stock price, the Wall Street Journal reported. The job cuts are expected to be outlined as early as this week and mostly target salaried employees, the newspaper said, citing unidentified […]
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Donald Trump tweets that Ford won’t move ‘Lincoln plant’ to Mexico
DETROIT — President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday night to announce that Ford Motor Co. won’t be moving Lincoln production from Kentucky to Mexico. Bill Ford, the company’s executive chairman, telephoned him with the news that a Lincoln plant would stay in Louisville, Trump said in the tweet claiming credit for the decision. Just […]
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Leone Ford
1926 – 2016 TUSTIN, Calif. — Leone Ford, 89, a former resident of Auburn, passed away on Monday, Jan. 18, at Hoag Hospital, Irvine, Calif., after a short illness. She had been a resident of Sunrise Assisted Living. She was born on Jan. 31, 1926, in Lewiston, the oldest daughter of Bernice and Everett Libby. […]
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Working: Rusty perfection
LEEDS — The 1954 Ford F-100’s frame is patched together with 29 vintage license plates, held down with screws dipped in acid and left out in the rain to get them nice and faux-old. The overhead light in the truck cab is a bare light bulb. The seat covers are burlap sacks. The change cup on […]
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Tales of a dedicated Maine warden — part II
Sometime in the 1980s, Warden John Ford’s dream job took a turn for the worst. Under the leadership of the then controversial Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Glenn Manual, Maine Game Wardens were ordered to work no more than a 40-hour week and to vastly curtail their mileage. “It got to a point where I just […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Ford fights back from gruesome injury
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Giant slalom is Tommy Ford’s race. The Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships, set for Sugarloaf later this week, are his event. “It will be nice to defend my GS title,” Ford said, hesitating to allow room for the punch line. “Of course, a couple other guys have won it since the last time […]
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1 dies in fire believed to be arson
BIDDEFORD — Investigators say an apartment fire in Biddeford, Maine, is now being investigated as a homicide after one of the fire victims has died. Twenty-three-year-old Michael Moore died Friday afternoon at the hospital. Moore was one of two men pulled unconscious from the building early Thursday. His roommate is in critical condition. They were […]
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Hundreds honor the fallen at New Gloucester service
NEW GLOUCESTER — Honoring America’s military on Memorial Day, hundreds of people gathered along a milelong-plus parade route from Memorial School to the Lunn Hunnewell AMVETS Post 6 hall on Route 100. Gold Star mothers, Gray-New Gloucester middle and high schools bands and AMVETS gathered at the site of the future veterans memorial in Upper […]
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Test-drive event to raise money for Livermore Falls reading program
LIVERMORE FALLS — A Drive 4 UR Community event will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 23, in the gazebo area to benefit the Elaine Smith Children’s Reading Program at Treat Memorial Library. The event coincides with the Livermore Falls History Night and Cruise-In in downtown Livermore Falls. The Drive 4 UR […]
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Paris board OKs $28,000 for fire department vehicle
PARIS — Selectmen on Monday approved spending up to $28,000 to buy a new command vehicle for the Fire Department. According to fire Chief Brad Frost, the department has purchased a 2014 Ford Interceptor specifically designed for use by first responders. It comes ready for communications equipment and emergency lights to be installed. Frost expects the […]