AUBURN — James I. Thomas, 73, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Tuesday, March 28, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice. He was born in Maryland on July 13, 1943, the son of the late Robert and Maggie (Contie) Thomas. James moved from Maryland to Maine at a […]
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2 federal judges find new Trump travel ban discriminatory
GREENBELT, Md. — Rejecting arguments from the government that President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was substantially different from the first one, judges in Hawaii and Maryland blocked the executive order from taking effect as scheduled on Thursday, using the president’s own words as evidence that the order discriminates against Muslims. The rulings in Hawaii […]
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Teens represent Maine at 4-H summit in Washington
LEWISTON — Three Maine high school students attended the National 4-H Youth Summit on Agri-Science in Washington, D.C. The summit runs from Jan. 15-18 at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., less than 10 miles from the White House. Attendees were Ethan Gray of Lewiston, Kelton Tanguay of Gorham and […]
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Robin M. Oakes
1961 – 2015 LEWISTON — Robin M. Oakes, 54, a resident of Jay, passed away on Monday, Oct. 5, at Central Maine Medical Center. She was born Jan. 28, 1961, in Maryland, the daughter of Michael Hoffmann and Odessa Locklear. On Aug. 25, 1989, she married Ronald Oakes. She is survived by her husband, Ronald; […]
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Paul Richard Champlin
1957 – 2015 GLEN BURNIE, Md. — Paul Richard Champlin, 58, of Odenton, Md., passed away on Friday, Sept. 11, at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, Md. He was born March 30, 1957, in Amsterdam, N.Y., the son of Leonard and Florence (Willis) Champlin. Paul retired from the U.S. Navy Seabees as a […]
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Florence E. Libby
1919 – 2015 AUBURN — Florence E. Libby, 95, of Lewiston passed from this life peacefully at the Androscoggin Hospice House. She was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1919 to Leonard Edwards and Mabel Walton Edwards and fell asleep Sunday, Aug. 30. By the time she married Kenneth R. Libby on Nov. 21, 1940, she […]
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Gerard Jude Touchette
1949 – 2015 EARLEVILLE, Md. — Gerard Jude Touchette, 65, of Earleville, Md., passed away peacefully while surrounded by his family on Saturday, May 30. Born in Rumford on July 16, 1949, Gerard was a son of the late Albert J. Touchette and Jeannette (Desjardins) Touchette. He made his career as a technician with the […]
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Benjamin Anthony Firth
1970 – 2015 SABATTUS — On Sunday, April 12, with sadness and shock, we lost an amazing, loving husband and friend, Benjamin Anthony Firth. Ben was born in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 20, 1970. He spent time in West Virginia as a young boy, enjoying the caves around his grandmother’s home. Ben grew up in North […]
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Ellen E. Disney
1943 – 2015 AUBURN — Ellen E. Disney, of Lisbon Falls, died at the Hospice House in Auburn on Friday, April 10. She was born in Hartford, Conn., on April 30, 1943, the only child of Allen W. and Gretchen M. Hart of Unionville, Conn. She graduated from Farmington High School and earned a Bachelor […]
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Maryland woman, 2 young sons among 6 dead in plane crash
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Residents of a suburban community adjacent to a small, regional airport said they don’t give much thought to the jets that fly over their homes daily. But the sound they heard Monday — a plane flying much too low and struggling to remain aloft — was different. It was followed by a […]