GRAY — Gray-New Gloucester High School was evacuated Thursday morning because of a possible bomb, police said. High school administrators reported at 8:45 a.m. that a note in a bathroom indicated there was a bomb threat to the school, according to a release from Capt. Shawn O’Leary of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. The school […]
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Two arrested in Gray convenience story robbery
GRAY — Two men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing beer and threatening a store clerk. Christopher C. Chambers, 27, a transient from Portland, walked out of the Circle K Convenience Store around 10 p.m. without paying for the beer in his possession, according to a statement from the Cumberland County Sheriff Department. While confronting […]
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Latin American lectures begin LEWISTON — Davíd Carrasco, a Mexican American historian of religions, offers the inaugural lecture in Bates College’s Latin American studies program at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, in the Keck Classroom, Room G52 in Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk). Titled “Origins, Cities and Crossroads: Latin American Studies Through the […]
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Four charged in alleged Gray retribution attack
GRAY (AP) — Four men face terrorizing charges for allegedly trying to force their way into a Gray home in retaliation for a previous assault. Police said the men cut power to the home and tried to kick in the door on Wednesday night. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said the men were unable to […]
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Parents check out renovation at Spruce Mountain Middle School
JAY — The new classroom space smells fresh and new, Crystal Ducharme said at Tuesday night’s Spruce Mountain Middle School open house. She and scores of other parents and their children wandered the corridors, spoke with teachers and saw the new section of the school. “I like it down here,” said Ducharme’s eighth-grade daughter. “There’s […]
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Central Maine Detachment AUBURN — The Central Maine Detachment 810 will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the American Legion Post 31, Washington Street. All FMF corpsmen are welcome to be part of the detachment. Church bake sale, bottle drive HEBRON — The Hebron Community Baptist Church will host a […]
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Maine-based engineering firm up to 95 workers
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine-based engineering firm in northern New England has expanded its staff to about 95 employees. S.W. Cole Engineering, Inc., of Bangor recently acquired Summit CMT, a construction materials testing company, from CES, Inc., a Brewer-based engineering services and surveying firm. Summit is moving to Cole’s offices in Augusta and Gray. Cole […]
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Brock Brian Thompson
1980 – 2013 NEW GLOUCESTER — Brock Brian Thompson, 32, of New Gloucester, passed away Sunday, Aug. 11, while riding an ATV, which was one of his favorite pastimes. Brock was born in Lewiston on Oct. 2, 1980, to Brian and Lynn Thompson of Gray. He graduated Gray-New Gloucester High School in 1999. On Oct. […]
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Ryan White pleads guilty to Rite Aid robberies in Lewiston and Gray
AUBURN — Ryan White pleaded guilty Monday to charges of robbery and stealing drugs from Rite Aid stores in Lewiston and Gray last year. He entered the pleas in Androscoggin County Superior Court after acknowledging that he violated probation on an earlier robbery conviction; he did not request a deal on sentencing, which will be […]