STOW — The Maine Warden Service is looking for a bobcat that attacked a 17-year-old boy and his father Wednesday evening in the Oxford County town of Stow and then might have attacked a small dog in nearby Lovell the next morning. Carolynn Plowden and her son Justin first noticed the bobcat about 7:15 p.m. […]
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Andy Davis to tell stories at Hobbs Library celebration
LOVELL — Storyteller Andy Davis will be featured in a public program for adults at noon on Friday, Dec. 15, at the Charlotte Hobbs Library. The occasion is the second anniversary of the Hobbs Story Swap, which has been meeting monthly to exchange stories since January 2016. All story swap programs are free and open […]
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Lovell camp building entered in National Register
LOVELL — The Fives Court recreation building has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places, according to Kirk F. Mahoney, director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. The designation indicated that the property has been documented, evaluated and considered worthy of preservation and protection as part of the nation’s cultural heritage. The Fives […]
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Christine D. "Chris" Craig
LOVELL — Christine D. “Chris” Craig, 58, of Lovell passed away after battling a long illness Tuesday morning, Sept. 12, in the comfort of her own home with family at her side. She was born Dec. 10, 1958, in Dorchester, Mass., a daughter of Thomas A. and Carol (Carey) Thomson. Chris attended school in Massachusetts […]
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Lisa Hillman, author of powerful memoir, in Lovell
LOVELL — The Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library in Lovell is hosting Lisa Hillman, author of “Secret No More: A True Story of Hope for Parents with an Addicted Child” at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 20. An outsider might envy the Hillman family for their seemingly perfect lives. Lisa ran multi-million dollar campaigns for one of Maryland’s leading […]
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Outdoor tracking with MLT BETHEL — Mahoosuc Land Trust will host an easy snowshoe hike with naturalist Paul Motts at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 20, at the Valentine Conservation Center, 162 North Road. This is an opportunity for all ages to observe the tracks that forest animals have left in the snow. FMI: 207-824-3806, [email protected]. Thrift shop bag sale LOVELL — The thrift […]
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Delta Masonic Lodge donates to Sunshine Backpack Food Program
LOVELL — The Delta Masonic Lodge held its second annual spaghetti supper on Aug. 13, supporting Sunshine Backpack Food Program in School Administrative District 72. There currently 65 children from Fryeburg, Brownfield and Lovell signed up for the program, an increase from 45 children last year. Each backpack contained shelf-stable foods — foods that […]
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Lovell man sentenced for assault, threats
PARIS — A Lovell man was sentenced Friday to five years in jail, with all but six months suspended, for assaulting and threatening a person near his home in 2015. Dennis Buffington Jr., 32, previously pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and a misdemeanor charge of reckless conduct. […]
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Maine artist says his painting of Arleigh Burke missing from Navy ship
LOVELL (AP) — A Maine artist who created a portrait of the late Adm. Arleigh Burke says the painting is AWOL. Roger Williams of Lovell wants to know that happened to the painting he donated 25 years ago when a guided-missile destroyer bearing the Navy hero’s name was commissioned. Williams told WCSH-TV (http://on.wcsh6.com/2irpFzZa ) that […]
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Lovell chestnut named the country’s tallest tree of the species
LOVELL — It’s official, for now — North America’s tallest known American chestnut tree is growing in a protected forest in Lovell. Officials from The American Chestnut Foundation came all the way from Asheville, N.C., to be present for the official measuring ceremony in a media event on Wednesday. They found the tree to be 115 […]