GRAY — A Scarborough man who crashed into another man’s car early Sunday will face charges of drunken driving and operating without a license, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy Naldo S. Gagnon said that Brad Provencher, 45, was driving north on Lewiston Road in Gray around 12:30 a.m. when his pickup […]
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Plan for move of Narrow Gauge Railroad gaining steam
GRAY — The executive director of the Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. and Museum says the group is “chugging along” with its plans to move to Gray. Donnie Carroll, the nonprofit’s executive director and a longtime Gray resident, gave a Dec. 5 presentation to the Gray Town Council with an update on the planned relocation from […]
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Lake Region girls come back on Gray-New Gloucester in opener
Lake Region forward Lauren Jakobs goes up for a shot during a home game on Friday against Gray-New Gloucester. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald) NAPLES — Mike Andreasen, the girls’ basketball coach at Gray-New Gloucester High, knows all about senior leadership. He had it last year when four seniors started on a Class B state championship […]
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Junior hockey team to call Auburn home
AUBURN — The Lewiston-Auburn area is getting a second junior hockey team. Monday night, the Auburn City Council gave its unanimous approval to Maine Hockey Management Group LLC to finalize a lease agreement with a yet-to-be-named league to operate a team out of the Norway Savings Bank Arena beginning next season, in August 2018. “We’re […]
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Ride of her life
Gwyneth McPherson gets a playful lip nuzzle from Eskandar at Pineland Farms’ Equestrian Center in New Gloucester. Years after teen glory, Windham woman revives equestrian dream of making the Olympics NEW GLOUCESTER — Gwyneth McPherson won her first national dressage championship at age 12 riding a horse bought off the back of a meat truck […]
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Teresa Rose Gonzalez Diaz
GRAY — Theresa Rose Gonzalez Diaz passed away Monday, Aug. 21, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She had the victory because now, without a doubt, she is looking down from Heaven on all of her family that she has missed for the past several years. She was born Nov. 24, 1927, in Clearwater, Calif. […]
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Shirley Ann Ordway
CASCO — Shirley Ann Ordway, 79, died Friday, Aug. 18. She was born on June 1, 1938, in Auburn, the daughter of C. Raymond and Nellie Rowe Segars. Shirley attended Gray and New Gloucester primary schools and graduated from Pennell Institute in 1956. Shirley worked for Pine Tree Telephone and Telegraph as a receptionist. She […]
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'Bug Man' to visit Maine Wildlife Park
GRAY — Retired science teacher Jon Wallace will present a program on bugs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 1, at the Maine Wildlife Park on Route 26. The exhibit will show some of the world’s largest bugs and how they relate to some of the bugs familiar to Maine. There will be […]
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Construction worker hit on turnpike in serious condition
GRAY (WGME) – A construction worker, hit by a car on the turnpike, managed to crawl to safety. Now 58-year-old Danny Lowe has been upgraded from critical to serious condition. The crash happened in the northbound lane of the turnpike, just south of the Gray exit. That’s where a vehicle hit Lowe. Police say a […]
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Patricia A. Rogers
GRAY — Patricia A. Rogers of Gray died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, June 12, after a long battle with cancer. Pat was born on Aug. 18, 1936, to Ernest H. Fickett and Julia (Snow) Fickett of Pownal. She attended school in Pownal and New Gloucester. She married Fred A. Rogers on April 8, 1956, […]