When 11-year-old Andrii Sidorov fled Kyiv in late February, he packed a small suitcase of essential items. He had no choice but to leave his prized Lego collection behind. “He was so sad,” said his father, Igor Sidorov, who drove with two of his four sons to Vienna on Feb. 23, just before Russia launched […]
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Winfield Bowie
DONEGAL, Ireland — Winfield Bowie, 91, of Donegal, Ireland, passed away suddenly in his home Sunday, Sept. 16. He was born in Auburn on March 1,1927. He is survived by his wife, Sarah (Sadie) Bowie, Ireland; son, Michael Bowie, and wife, Susan, Poland; daughter, Patricia Taylor, France; and son, Sean Bowie, Ireland. He was predeceased by […]
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Pope visits Ireland amid new global outrage over sex abuse
DUBLIN (AP) — Pope Francis arrived Saturday in Ireland, ground zero of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, with the institution under fire across the globe for its systemic failures to protect children from rapists or to punish bishops who hid the crimes. Francis is making the first papal visit to Ireland in almost four […]
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Ireland makes its decision on abortion
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists. […]
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Ireland votes to overturn abortion ban
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish have swept aside one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the developed world in a landslide vote that reflects Ireland’s emergence as a socially liberal country no longer obedient to Catholic dictates. With all ballots counted and turnout at an historic high, election officials reported that 66.4 percent voted […]
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Celebrate the music of Ireland
The Music of Ireland will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Denmark Arts Center, Route 160. The Mountain Top Music Singers Workshop, Ginnie Spaulding, Michelle Coffee, Dave Mason, John Waldie, Bob Carper, Peter Cash, Jennifer Day, Lois King and Mary Bastoni, create a carnival of Celtic sounds. A $15 donation is […]
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James E. Craven
LEWISTON — James E. Craven, 76, of Lewiston, died peacefully with his wife at his side, on Monday morning, Nov. 6, at CMMC. Jim was born in Bangor on May 8, 1941, a son of the late Joyce (Smith) Craven and Walter Gerald Craven; the youngest of four sons. James attended schools in Bangor and after […]
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Catherine King Oliver
1916 – 2014 LEWISTON — Catherine King Oliver, 98, of Portland died on Friday, May 30, attended by family members as she joined her beloved husband, Vincent, in Heaven. She was born in Boston on March 3, 1916, to Patrick and Barbara Joyce King, recent arrivals from Ballyconneely County, Galway, Ireland. She left Boston at age […]
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Late Mainer’s fishing buoy found on Ireland beach
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine woman has gotten back a fishing buoy from one of her late husband’s lobster traps after it was found nearly 3,000 miles away on a beach in Ireland. Barbara Fournier of Owls Head was recently told about a photo on Facebook, which showed the buoy with her husband’s lobster license […]
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Industry man helps rescue 3 people from Clearwater Lake
INDUSTRY — A retiree with Parkinson’s disease rescued three canoeists from the cold water of Clearwater Pond on Sunday morning, even after his personal watercraft overturned. James Grant pulled two women and one man from the water, which had been whipped into large whitecaps by high winds. “It was the way I was taught” as […]