CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — One Marine has been killed and nine others were hurt when a helicopter made a hard landing at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter came down hard during a training exercise around 9 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Ryan Elizabeth Alvis said in a statement. Alvis said the name […]
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Clarence R. ‘Reggie’ Rawls
1934 – 2015 LEWISTON — Clarence R. “Reggie” Rawls of 9 Stevens St. died Sunday, Aug. 2, at age 81, at his home with his family by his side, one day shy of his 58th wedding anniversary. Born in Aulander, N.C., May 9, 1934, a son of the late Clarence and Ida Rawls, he was […]
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Ronda M. Ballard
1970 – 2015 PORTLAND — Ronda Mary Ballard, 45, of Mechanic Falls, died Saturday, July 4, at Maine Medical Center of an aneurysm. As she left this world, she gave her kidneys to two recipients as a gift of life, allowing them to be taken off dialysis. She was born on April 21, 1970, in […]
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Scott E. Provencher
1967 – 2015 PINEHURST, N.C. — Scott E. Provencher, 47, of West End, N.C., formerly of Lewiston, passed away Thursday, May 7, after a long and courageous battle with brain cancer. He passed away at the First Health Hospice House in Pinehurst, N.C., with his family by his side. Scott was born in Lewiston on […]
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Carol Bean Tate
1955 – 2015 LAURINBURG, N.C. — Carol Bean Tate, 59, finished her course in faith on Monday, May 4. Carol was born Sept. 10, 1955, in Waltham, Mass., a daughter of the late Faye Dorothea Harriman Bean. She grew up in South Paris. As a teaching assistant at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 1977, she met […]
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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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College basketball: Dean Smith, legendary UNC coach, dies
Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball’s Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left the bench, has died. He was 83. The retired coach died “peacefully” at his North Carolina home Saturday night, the school said […]
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Hurricane Arthur helps mark Independence Day
PORTLAND — Independence Day events and services were canceled throughout the day Friday as Hurricane Arthur, the season’s first storm, made its way up the east coast.a Nova Star Cruises announced that its voyage from Portland to Yarmouth on July 4 would be canceled due to the weather. The voyage from Yarmouth to Portland on […]
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Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. “I’m […]
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Maine native promoted in N.C.
ALBERMARLE, N.C. — First Bank announces that Maine native Anne Penney has been promoted to assistant vice president. Currently a branch manager, Penney brings more than 15 years of customer service experience to her new position. Originally from Mechanic Falls, Penney graduated from Albemarle High School in 1998. She is a member of the Albemarle […]