SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dolores (Dolly) Jutras Ebolitto Lucero passed away suddenly at her home in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 15, with her husband, Ernest Lucero, by her side. She was born in 1937 in Lewiston to Theresa and Conrad R. Jutras and had two brothers, Conrad and Bert, and a sister, Annette Jutras […]
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Auburn Public Library chosen for national news literacy pilot program
The Auburn Public Library has been chosen as one of five pilot sites across the country for a program aimed at boosting news literacy. Media Literacy @ Your Library, a project of the American Library Association and the Center for News Literacy @ Stony Brook University, will train library staff to help adult customers become better […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Even pilots are humbled by flying
Grandiose delusions are not unknown to me. As a young man, the challenges of a Navy carrier pilot appealed to me — until I joined the Navy and saw how inherently dangerous it is to land a jet aircraft on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier on a dark and stormy night. No thank […]
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Building his own wings; retiree’s six years of work on plane about to pay off
Gary Brearley has had a lifelong fascination with flying. He took his first solo flight at the age of 20 and has been involved with airplanes in some way ever since. But he had never owned a plane of his own until he decided to build one himself. This summer, after six years of work […]
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Great Falls Balloon Festival grounded Friday night, but there’s plenty to eat
“It’s the lime rickeys,” said Dan St. Pierre, commander of the William Rogers Post for American Legion Post 153 — which, coincidentally, is the only group selling lime rickeys at the festival. “We get people that come up here from Portland, not to see the balloons,” he said. “They come up, buy two at a […]
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Pilot dies in a plane crash near Limington airport
LIMINGTON — A pilot was killed when his single-engine aircraft crashed 200 yards away from the runway of the Limington-Harmon Airport Saturday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Portland Press Herald. The pilot was identified as 52-year-old Clark Tate of Gray, according to WMTW. He was the only passenger on the plane. […]
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Focus turns to pilots as hunt for jet widens
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Attention focused Sunday on the pilots of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after the country’s leader announced findings so far that suggest someone with intimate knowledge of the Boeing 777’s cockpit seized control of the plane and sent it off-course. Prime Minister Najib Razak gave the first detailed findings Saturday […]
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In aviation, simple mistakes have consequences
There was probably tension in the cabin of a Cessna T41C last April when it made a surprise landing on the Maine Turnpike in Litchfield, but no one has said so. “I heard the engine quit, and then I heard the sound of wind over the wings,” Randall Greenleaf, who was on the ground, told […]