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Balkan duo will perform at coffeehouse

NEW GLOUCESTER — Balkan duo Cinder Conk will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, at the New Gloucester Village Coffee House. Double bass player Xar Adelberg and accordion player Matthew Schreiber perform an array of original and Balkan music, including the vibrant, colorful sound of Roma (gypsy) folk dance. In the past year, Cinder […]

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Local students perform in USM ensembles

PORTLAND — Local students recently performed as part of the University of Southern Maine School of Music student ensembles. As the only School of Music in a public university in New England, the school features a faculty of distinguished performers, teachers, scholars and mentors. More than 100 concerts and events are presented each academic year; […]

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Eleita Lynn Hawthorne Munroe

LEWISTON — Eleita Lynn Hawthorne Munroe of Windham, passed away peacefully on Dec. 20, with her family by her side at Central Maine Medical Center. After years of battling her blood disorder and going through a stem cell transplant that was successful on July 21, her body succumbed to liver failure. She was born on […]

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Calendars featuring local photographers, sights are available

AUBURN – Mechanics Savings Bank has announced the winning original photographs selected to be featured in its 2012 Moving Places and Spaces calendar. The bank chose photographs by local residents that capture the beauty of area communities served by Mechanics Savings Bank in Androscoggin and Cumberland Counties. The community photographers and their selected photographs are […]

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Candlelight service NEW GLOUCESTER — The New Gloucester Bible Church will have a Christmas Eve candlelight service at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 24. All are welcome. Christmas Day Service will be at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call Pastor Dan at 926-4297. Turner Center service TURNER — Everyone is invited to the Turner Center Church […]

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Cards for soldiers BETHESDA, Md. — Send a wounded soldier a Christmas card. When filling out Christmas cards this year, take one card, or more, and send to: A Recovering American Soldier, c/o Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md., 20889-5600. This is a small way to say thank you to […]

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Grange program AUBURN — Danville Junction Grange will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, when a Christmas program will be presented by the lecturer. Refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting. Members are reminded to bring wrapped toys and games for the Salvation Army. All members and guests are welcome. Travelers […]

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New Gloucester a step closer to creating water district

NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen on Monday unanimously approved a list of actions and signed documents to develop a public water supply for Upper Gloucester village. State Rep. Ellie Espling, R-New Gloucester, told the board that legislation to set up a New Gloucester Water District and charter for the town will be finalized by Dec. 15 […]

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Janice Louise Guthrie Whiteley

AUBURN — Janice Louise Guthrie Whiteley, 35, died at the Hospice House, Dec. 1, after a brief, but courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Bangor, May 23, 1976, to Carroll and Jean Guthrie. She lived in Lewiston with her husband, Michael and three children, Steven and Isabella Rosado and Trent Whiteley. Janice grew […]