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New Peaks Island seafood restaurant is in the works

by Meredith Goad January 30, 2019January 30, 2019

A local couple plans to turn The Peaks Island House into Island Lobster Co.

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Missing Florida teen found dead in Casco Bay

by Matt Byrne, Portland Press Herald July 24, 2018July 25, 2018

A 19-year-old Florida man was found dead in Casco Bay near Peaks Island after he was reported missing Sunday from Great Diamond Island, police said. Maxwell Brown, of Boca Raton, Florida, was reported missing and possibly having a medical crisis at about 7 p.m., according to a statement issued by the Portland Police Department. Residents, […]

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Military museum brings attention to soldier suicide

by Kate Irish Collins, The Forecaster July 13, 2018July 14, 2018

PEAKS ISLAND — An average of 22 veterans and one active-duty member of the armed forces die by suicide each day, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. One of these was Senior Airman Dustin Hadfield, a Mainer and Afghanistan veteran who took his own life in December 2014, almost two […]

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Claire M. Filliettaz

July 21, 2015

1931 – 2015 AUBURN — Claire M. Filliettaz, 83, a resident of Schooner Estates, formerly of Lewiston and Peaks Island, passed away peacefully Saturday, July 18, at her residence, following a three-year period of failing health. She was born in Lewiston, July 19, 1931, a daughter of Brig. Gen. Charles M. and Catherine F. (Conley) […]

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Weird, Wicked Weird: The largest (and only) Umbrella Cover Museum in the world

by Kathryn Skelton, Staff Writer July 3, 2015

Nancy 3. Hoffman (not a middle initial typo) is an author, accordionist and the director, curator and founder of the Umbrella Cover Museum. She is also running out of space. There are more than 1,300 umbrella covers in the little one-room Peaks Island museum that holds the Guinness Book World Record for the world’s largest […]

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Peaks Island woman who stole from boss gets three years in prison

by The Associated Press August 6, 2014

PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine woman accused of stealing more than $70,000 from her boss after he ended their affair has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay the money. The Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/XD9kx0 ) that 56-year-old Sharon Conley of Peaks Island in Portland was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. […]