The funds raised will be used for a scholarship to a graduating Poland Regional High School student entering the field of first responders.
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Ground broken for Maine Gold Star Families Memorial Monument
LEWISTON — Seven golden shovels stood upright in a mound of dirt Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Park. As a crowd of about 80 watched, Gold Star parents, veterans and politicians shoveled dirt, breaking ground for the planned Maine Gold Star Families Memorial Monument. Gold Star flags symbolize a family member who died serving in […]
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Memorial unveiled to Abenaki chief killed after opposing dams on Presumpscot
WESTBROOK — For centuries, indigenous people lived undisturbed in the area between Sebago Lake and Casco Bay, their livelihood tied to the Presumpscot River and its bounty of salmon, bass, trout and other sea-run fish. When Col. Thomas Westbrook, who later had a city named after him, and other European settlers built dams on the […]
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9/11: Art provided an answer
TOPSHAM — It was a sunny Tuesday on a late summer morning. Chris Chapman’s ceramics class at Mt. Ararat High School was drawing shells when the visual arts teacher was advised to check the news. The haunting image of two planes crashing into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers seared into her mind that morning, […]
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Legislature passes bill calling for naming Norridgewock bridge for Cpl. Eugene Cole
Maine Department of Transportation workers, spectators and dignitaries gather in July 2011 for a ceremony opening a $22 million bridge in Norridgewock. The Legislature has passed a bill calling for naming it the Cpl. Eugene Cole Memorial Bridge, in honor of a omerset County sheriff’s deputy who was killed April 25 while on duty. (Jeff Pouland/Morning […]
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Lisbon honors veterans
Howard “Shep” Shepardson of Lisbon Post 66, American Legion, lays the remembrance wreath on Lisbon’s monument to its veterans of wars prior to World War II during local American Legion Posts’ Memorial Day ceremonies.
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‘Donny would have loved this:’ Beating victim memorialized in Kennedy Park
Natashia Parker, right, and Neil Spillane, both of whom referred to Donald Giusti as an adopted brother, grill hamburgers at a vigil and cookout Thursday afternoon at Kennedy Park in Lewiston. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — It was generally agreed among those who knew him that Donny Giusti would have loved it. More than 200 […]
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Lewiston police memorialize comrades
Sgt. Jim Theiss, center, talks with Charlie Weaver of the Lewiston Police Department as Theiss and seven other police officers leave the Androscoggin Bank Colisee parking lot at the start of the Law Enforcement Memorial Bicycle Ride on Thursday. Seven Lewiston police officers and one retired officer left Lewiston at 7:30 a.m. for a 35-mile […]
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Police riders expected to bike to Augusta for memorial ceremony
LEWISTON — Local police officers are planning to pedal their bicycles to Augusta on Thursday to memorialize their fallen comrades during National Police Week. The riders are scheduled to gather at Androscoggin Bank Colisee at 190 Birch St. at 7 a.m., and depart by 7:30 a.m. for the 35-mile ride to the Maine Law Enforcement […]
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One Marine's mission: To honor a hero at Bates College
Steven Arango never met Capt. George “Alexi” Whitney, but he still feels a connection to the late Bates College graduate. Having spent a semester at Bates, Arango understands the commitment required by Whitney to have graduated cum laude from Bates in 2000. But the greater connection is that both men served in the U.S. Marines […]