PALERMO — Early this school year, Principal Stephanie Oliphant had a decision to make about a student who wasn’t behaving well. The girl kept standing up on the bus ride to Palermo Consolidated School, creating “a major safety problem,” Oliphant said. To handle the situation, the principal could have meted out a punishment, revoking the […]
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Claire E. Taylor
1927 – 2014 FARMINGTON — Claire Elaine Taylor, 87, of Farmington, died Friday, April 25, at Franklin Memorial Hospital. She was born March 29, 1927, in Palermo, a daughter of Everett H. and Annabelle (Tobey) McKechnie Sr. She attended Augusta schools, graduating from Cony High School in 1944. Claire’s working career began in Augusta at […]
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Eight Aroostook County residents face poaching charges
ALLAGASH (AP) — Maine authorities have charged eight Aroostook County residents in a crackdown on illegal hunting in the region. Seven residents of Allagash and one Palermo man were charged Thursday with various poaching offenses from hunting with a suspended license to possession of a moose killed at night. The Maine Warden Service said the […]
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Freedom Salute for 488th Military Police Company honors families
AUGUSTA — Carolyn Knights of Oxford was outside the Augusta Civic Center on Sunday morning awaiting the start of the Freedom Salute for the 488th Military Police Company, who returned to Maine on June 15 from a year-long deployment. “You don’t want to interview me. I’m just a grandmother,” she said before breaking into tears […]
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Police charge Palermo man with having sex with teen girl
PALERMO — A Palermo man has been charged with having a sexual relationship with an underage girl. Jason Baldwin is being held in jail on $10,000 cash bail on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, refusing to submit to arrest and escape. Police started an investigation late last month when the 38-year-old Baldwin was […]
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Sicily’s governor aims to break mob, machismo barriers
PALERMO, Italy — Of the last two men to sit in Sicily’s palatial governor’s office, one is up on criminal charges and the other is doing hard time. Enter their successor, Rosario Crocetta — the unlikeliest politician ever to govern Cosa Nostra country. Back when he was mayor of a coastal town plagued by mob […]