AUBURN — Roger “Hoot” LaRoche jokes that he came in a package deal with the lumberyard. LaRoche started working at Peter Allen Lumber in 1955, a New Auburn native just out of the Air Force. His brother worked there. The company was hiring for an office job in accounting. And there he stayed, for the […]
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People You Know: Mary Ann Gallant, honorary hostess
AUBURN — Every morning, Mary Ann Gallant walks in with baked goods and a laugh, as much a fixture as the booths and the All-American Slam. The 73-year-old retired as a Denny’s hostess two years ago, but she’s never left. It’s where her friends are. “You meet a lot of people,” Gallant said. “Meeting people, […]
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Bert D. Mathieu, nearly eight decades in shoe shops
LEWISTON — Every weekday at 5:50 a.m., Bert D. Mathieu stops into Labadie’s Bakery for two plain donuts and coffee and heads into work at Pamco Shoe Machinery. He’s 91, and, strictly speaking, a volunteer. “I locate all the parts needed so they don’t have to chase around and look for them,” Mathieu said. “I’m […]
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People You Know: Jeannette Freve, ‘Queen’ of L-A
LEWISTON — Jeannette Freve makes eight pounds of fudge every week, gifting it to people in her travels, a modern-day Johnny Appleseed with smiles, sweets and stories. She proudly admits to having kissed two presidents on the cheek (the first was around 1935). She met her second husband protesting a parking ticket — he took […]
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People You Know: Brenda Fontaine — Making real estate work
LEWISTON — As a teen, Brenda Fontaine worked hard. She pumped gas, sold Avon, modeled clothes at her mother’s home shopping parties and sanded cars at her father’s body shop. She wanted to be a nurse out of high school in 1970, but the money wasn’t there for classes. Instead, Fontaine married her husband, Claude, […]
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People You Know: Noella Hemond, Minot moo’ver
MINOT — Noella Hemond and her husband once donated a firetruck to the town — in secret. Gifted a bag of yarn at age 90, she knit mittens for two classes of local schoolchildren. She helped plan the town bicentennial celebration in 2002 and started a college scholarship five years ago (only Minot residents need […]
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Wayne student earns role in Dean College production
Performances scheduled through Sunday, Feb. 26.