‘You can’t fight city hall,’ Stanley said Thursday, as the town began taking bids on clearing items from his packed property on Route 202.
George Stanley
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News
Greene man loses court appeal over junkyard at home
George Stanley called his property a work of art. But the town of Greene and Maine’s highest court call it a junkyard.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News
Junk or art? Greene files charges for junkyard, flea market violations
This is the third time the town of Greene has cited George Stanley for violating town ordinances and the second time it has taken him to court.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Creator of bogus ad targeting George Stanley's property remains unidentified
GREENE — The Craigslist scam that resulted in a gull-like scavenging at George Stanley’s home in October generated all kinds of interest, locally and abroad. The Daily Mail in the United Kingdom wrote a lengthy piece about the caper and unfortunate results. A reporter from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies went to Stanley’s Route […]
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Mark LaFlamme
The rise and fall of George Stanley’s empire of stuff | Mark LaFlamme
You can call Stanley a lot of things — eccentric, strange, more trouble than a house full of monkeys — but stupid isn’t one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Posted inAndroscoggin County
George Stanley assesses the devastation after bogus Craigslist ad prompted a frenzy of looting
GREENE — At George Stanley’s place on Route 202, there are almost too many doors to count: garage doors, doors made of fencing and doors constructed of plywood and nails. On Thursday, working in the driving rain, the 71-year-old Stanley moved from one door to the next, assessing the damage and the losses. “This […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
District attorney weighs in on bogus Craigslist ad
GREENE — Days after learning that his Route 202 property had been looted, George Stanley said he has no expectation that people will return what was taken. “Nope,” Stanley said Friday. “I have no faith in human nature.” For days, people have been hauling away items from Stanley’s property after a bogus Craigslist ad announced […]
Posted inAndroscoggin County
Bogus Craigslist ad leads people to loot Greene property
“Free!” the Craigslist ad read. “Come one, come all, everything on the lot is free!” So enthusiastic was the advertisement it used the word “free” five times in the headline alone. The problem: The ad was bogus. The lot in question, a sprawling building surrounded by a mad jumble of free-floating items on Route […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Don't need the glitzy eateries
I have worked at eateries for many years. It is my observation that employees and customers both get mistreated. After all, capitalism is based on greed that pays slave wages. I have known owners whose families drive BMWs, and other double standards abound. Smokers get paid breaks while I, as a non-smoker, have been ordered […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Greene man sues town, again
AUBURN — A Greene man who sued the town for denying him a permit to operate a flea market is back in court. George Stanley filed a two-page, handwritten complaint this week in Androscoggin County Superior Court against the town, roughly two months after the state’s highest court dismissed a similar suit by Stanley. In […]