Zippy, Sarge and others enjoy a holiday meal to celebrate the solstice at Maple Hill Farm in Auburn.
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Famous actors like Liam Neeson enjoy reminiscing about the quality time spent with their horse co-stars
If you met Liam Neeson, would you ever forget him? No? Neither did this horse. While at the New York Film Festival recently, Neeson marveled at how the animal who pulls his character’s wagon in the upcoming Coen brothers Western “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” remembered the actor from a previous project. The horse pawed […]
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Stable helps rider rein in his troubles with horses
‘Deadwood’-primed writer finds Deepwood Farm horseback ride may spur the healing.
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Animal Tales: Have horse, will travel
When Candace Platz traveled to Portugal earlier this month, she planned to look at dressage horses. Ride a few, maybe. She did not expect to actually buy one. But then there was Enrique, with his majesty and power tempered by gentleness. And Platz fell in love. “I didn’t want to want him,” she said. “He […]
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Rodney C. Bisbee
AUBURN — Rodney C. Bisbee, Sr., 76, of West Poland died Saturday morning, July 21, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Lewiston to Lewis and Myrtle Bisbee on Oct. 19, 1941. He graduated from Mechanic Falls High School in 1960. In his teen years he worked at Pete Goulet’s store in […]
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Getting new shoes at the fairgrounds
Rex Ellis shoes Swift Image, a 5-year-old standardbred, at one of the barns Monday afternoon at the Farmington Fairgrounds. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)
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Horses Across Maine departs on first leg of state-wide ride
Horses Across Maine founder Peter Seames, left, and wife, Cindy Seames, ride through Lovell on June 1 during the first leg of the 280-mile ride across Maine. The group departed from Fryeburg that morning, riding to Waterford and then from Waterford to Oxford the next day, completing the first section of the 280 miles from […]
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Tera Ann Goddard
AUBURN — Tera Ann Goddard, 39, of Litchfield passed away unexpectedly May 24, 2018. She was born in Lewiston, on Oct. 5, 1978, to Lisa Gayton Goddard and Gregory Goddard. Tera attended Lisbon schools and graduated from Lisbon High School in 1996. She loved fast-pitch softball in high school and after. She enjoyed spending time barrel […]
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Shirley Danforth
LEWISTON — Shirley Danforth, 93, of Sabattus, passed away on Saturday, April 21, at d’Youville Pavilion. She was born on July 31, 1924, educated and lived in Sabattus her entire life. Shirley worked for many years at Webster Rubber. She loved her hometown of Sabattus. She enjoyed horses, dancing to good music and just having a […]
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Horses work out in chilly Farmington
Rex Ellis of Avon exercises a horse named She’s All Thin on Thursday on the track at the Farmington Fairgrounds. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal) Steven Wilson of Farmington gives horses Toe Tag and Le Gambe from Cushing Stable in Farmington a workout Thursday at the Farmington Fairgrounds. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal)