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Livermore Falls board OKs pump purchase

LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen on Tuesday unanimously approved the purchase of a new sewer pump for $38,036 to replace a broken one on Souther Road. Sewer Superintendent Greg Givens said the town highway crew last week discovered both pumps had failed. One is working again and the other has been removed and will be replaced […]

Posted inMaine

Bill names Houlton stream for American Indian war hero

AUGUSTA — It may not be a big stream, but for John Bear the renaming of B Stream in Houlton has big meaning. Bear, who grew up in Lewiston, is a nonvoting member of the Maine House, representing the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. He said Friday that a resolution passed by the Maine Legislature […]

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Posted inOxford Hills

Hebron students go to class on Mount Washington

PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. — The wind was howling at nearly 65 miles per hour and blowing snow across the mountaintops. Despite the brilliant midmorning sun, the temperature had dropped to 17 degrees below zero. “It was awesome,” Hebron Station School student Arianna Durepos as she climbed out of one of two Mt. Washington SnowCoaches at […]

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Crescent Park School fifth-graders portray history through Wax Museum characters

BETHEL — History came alive during Crescent Park Elementary School’s annual Wax Museum program as performed by 37 fifth-grade students for kindergarten through grade four children. But first, one had to get past Alexander the Great, Eric the Red and Marco Polo, who were guarding SAD 44’s version of the “Night at the Museum” movies. […]

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Shearman sworn in as register of deeds in symbolic ceremony

BUCKFIELD — Circled by the graves of her ancestors, Patricia Shearman was sworn in as Register of Deeds for eastern Oxford County in a symbolic ceremony Friday morning.  In a small ceremony at the Buckfield Village Cemetery on North Buckfield Road, Shearman took the oath of office with one hand on a history novel, the thesis […]

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‘Glad Tidings: The Merry Friendship of Longfellow and Dickens’ tour in Portland

PORTLAND — Through Sunday, Dec. 28, celebrate the season with the Maine Historical Society’s “Glad Tidings: The Merry Friendship of Longfellow & Dickens Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Charles Dickens.” This holiday season, MHS explores the friendship between the man who is said to have “invented America” and the man who is said to have “invented […]

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‘Christmas at Norlands’ in Livermore on Dec. 7

Journey back in time and enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, 19th-century parlor games, stories, children’s craft activities in the cozy Washburn kitchen, caroling, the one-room schoolhouse, mulled cider made on the woodstove, and the simply decorated 1867 Washburn mansion. Kerck Kelsey, Washburn descendant and historian, will share stories about the Washburn family in the mansion at […]

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Backers see New Auburn’s history, future in St. Louis Church bells

AUBURN — The four bells removed from New Auburn’s St. Louis Church are concrete, physical objects — skillfully cast and beautiful to look at, says Alan Manoian, Auburn’s economic development specialist. But beyond their physicality, Manoian said he’s as interested in preserving what the bells have meant to the city. They have a history and, […]