SOUTH PARIS — Raymond Rudolph Farr Jr., of West Paris, died on Thursday evening, March 15, at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris, where he had resided for the past nine years. He was born June 7, 1923, in West Paris, the oldest of four children and the only son of Raymond R. Farr Sr. […]
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Edward T. Madden
LISBON FALLS — Edward T. Madden, 84, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 28, at his home with his loving family by his side. He was born in Lynn, Mass., the only child to the late Edward and Aleina (Smith) Madden. He graduated from St. Mary’s Boys’ Catholic school in 1951. After graduation, he went on to […]
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
By Thomas Callender InsideSources.com “December 7, 1941 … a date which will live in infamy.” These were President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s opening words when he addressed Congress and the nation the day after the surprise attack. These six words would become the rallying cry for the American people in the ensuing months and years as […]
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Raymond A. Buckminster
LEWISTON — Raymond A. Buckminster, 84, of New Vineyard, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at CMMC in Lewiston, surrounded by his wife, Debbie Martin and family. Raymond was born on Nov. 30, 1932 in Sunshine, Deer Isle, Maine, the son of Emery and Ethna (Shepard) Buckminster. He graduated from Stonington-Deer Isle High School in the […]
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North Korea targets Japan — 1998 and 2017
On August 31, 1998, North Korea bluntly informed Japan that the next time the Korean War escalated to all-out combat, Tokyo would be a target. Pyongyang used a multi-stage Taepodong-1 intermediate range ballistic missile to deliver the diplomatic message as a military object lesson. The first stage of the rather poorly constructed missile landed in […]
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Trump: 'All option are on the table' after latest North Korea missle test
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says “all options are on the table” after North Korea launched ballistic missiles over Japan. Trump says in a written statement Tuesday that “threatening and destabilizing actions” only increase North Korea’s isolation in the region and around the world. The president says North Korea’s actions show “contempt for its […]
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David Turner Gammon
SOUTH PARIS — David Turner Gammon was born May 14, 1926, in Hartford, son of the late Harold Gammon and Edith DeCoster Gammon. David passed away July 25 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris, where he had made many friends and received excellent care. David enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War […]
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Larry Lavoie
AUBURN — Larry B. Lavoie, 88, passed away peacefully at Clover Manor on Monday, July 17, and is survived by a large and caring family who will miss him. Larry was born in Lewiston on June 14, 1929, the oldest child of Alice (Sevigny) and Alphonse Lavoie. He was raised in Lewiston and, for a time, […]
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Video: Japan hit by powerful quake but not a tsunami
“It really came back. And it was so awful. The sways to the side were huge,” Kazuhiro Onuki said after northeastern Japan was jolted Tuesday by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake, the strongest since a devastating quake and tsunami five years ago. “But nothing fell from the shelves,” Onuki, 68, said in a phone interview, his voice […]
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President Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima in May
World Map of Every Recorded Nuclear Detonation | FindTheData WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month, making the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. first dropped an atomic bomb, decimated a city and shot the world into the Atomic Age. The White House announced […]