Police responding to a reported drug overdose at a house in Hollis on Thursday wound up arresting 10 people for their connection to a methamphetamine operation. Maine State Police entered a house on Killick Pond Road and found what they described as “several active one-pot style methamphetamine labs.” Officers secured the scene to get a […]
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Larry U. Bradbury
AUBURN — Larry Usher Bradbury, 77, originally of Hollis but had spent the past three years living with his son, Danny Bradbury, and wife, Lee Ann, in Carthage. Larry died Monday, May 28, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, with his family by his side. Mr. Bradbury was born Oct. 3, 1940, in Portland to […]
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UMF's Hollis, Campbell keep track of each other
UMF’s Robbie Hollis stays just ahead of a runner in the 10,000-meter race at the Maine State Men’s Outdoor Championships at Bates College in Lewiston on Saturday. (Tony Blasi/Sun Journal) University of Maine at Farmington cross country coach Dan Campbell checks the course during the North Atlantic Conference cross country championships in Farmington last year. (Tony […]
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Police: One-armed machete-wielding creepy clown in Hollis arrested
HOLLIS (AP) — A man accused of drunkenly strolling down a road in Maine wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt and a clown mask and brandishing a machete taped to his amputated arm has been arrested. Maine State Police told WCSH-TV (http://on.wcsh6.com/2uZu4Db ) that 31-year-old Corey Berry, of Hollis, was arrested Tuesday and charged with criminal threatening. […]
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Hollis man sentenced to two years for assaulting police officers
PARIS — A Hollis man was sentenced Thursday at Oxford County Superior Court to two years in prison for assaulting two police officers and stealing the shirt off a Circle K clerk in Mexico in 2015. Robert Keoskie, 43, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting an officer, and misdemeanor counts of assault and […]
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Hollis woman recovering from gunshot wound
HOLLIS — Maine State Police say a woman is expected to recover after being shot outside her home in Hollis. Two men are being questioned. Police said the shooting took place at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Thirty-two-year-old Andria Richardson was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she underwent surgery. Her three young children […]
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Poland Spring driver dies in Hollis crash
HOLLIS — A former York deputy fire chief is dead after crashing his tractor trailer about 5 a.m. Friday on Killick Pond Road. Police say the driver pulled out of the Poland Spring water plant and hit a power pole, tangled the lines, and brought down a second pole. Troopers identified the victim as 66-year-old […]
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Should Poland Spring tap Rumford? Fear of trucks, drought and a ‘Goliath’
RUMFORD — Colin Smorawski, a Massachusetts native and Maine College of Art grad, was cooking at a Portland restaurant when he saw an ad for 98.6 acres that backed onto Mount Dimmock. “I saw it on Craigslist, believe it or not, when I was looking around and daydreaming about farms we could try to own,” […]
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Should Poland Spring tap Rumford?: The lure of jobs, money and new pipes
RUMFORD — At the rate it’s growing, Poland Spring is going to need a fourth Maine bottling plant. Janice Crawford hopes the company keeps Fryeburg in mind. The Fryeburg selectwoman is a fan of Poland Spring and what it’s done for her town since it started drawing water there in 1997. She considers it a […]
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One dead after head-on collision in Hollis
Travis Lowberg, 24, of Raymond died early Saturday when his car struck a tractor-trailer on Route 202 in Hollis. HOLLIS, Maine — A 24-year-old Raymond man was killed early Saturday morning when his car crossed the centerline on Route 202 and struck a tractor-trailer, according to Maine State Police. Travis Lowberg was pronounced dead […]