BROCHU — Phyllis A., 87, formerly of Lisbon, died Friday, Aug. 24. A graveside service will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Clough Cemetery on Route 196 in Lewiston. A service of Crosman Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 40 Main St., Lisbon Falls, ME 04252. COTE — Lisa Marie, 49, passed away Saturday, […]
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Couple raising money to train seizure-alert dog
Kristen Scott had her first seizure when she was six weeks old. She was diagnosed with epilepsy — grand mal and absent seizures, and as she got older, they became more frequent, and more severe. Still, she was determined not to let the epilepsy stop her from doing everything she wanted to do. She went […]
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Boys' Basketball: Winthrop's Steele, Scott even more grateful for one more game
Spencer Steele and Nate Scott, both seniors, are playing for the Winthrop basketball team despite dealing with injuries. Scott battled back from a broken leg suffered during football season, while Steele is playing with a torn ACL. WINTHROP — Winthrop will have eight seniors suiting up for Saturday night’s showdown against defending champion George Stevens […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Face time: Scott Cole — Trusted administrator may no longer be ‘from away’
Being “from away” isn’t necessarily a permanent brand in the eyes of Mainers. It may not be entirely forgotten, but it can be pretty much forgiven. “If the ‘from away’ thing exists,” wrote Oxford County Administrator Scott Cole for this interview, “I am the ultimate example of assimilation: Mainers have let me run their towns […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Norway man charged with choking girlfriend
PARIS — A Norway man has been sentenced to three years in prison for violating probation by assaulting his girlfriend after she refused to give him a ride home from a store. Wayne Scott Brown, 60, of Hayes Road, appeared before Judge Marie Woodman in Oxford County Unified Court on Feb. 29. In November 2012, […]
Posted inObituaries
Scott ‘Scotty’ Rose
1970 – 2016 LEWISTON — Scott “Scotty” Rose, 46, of Poland joined his father and brother in Heaven on Friday, Feb. 5, as he was surrounded by family at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. Scotty was born on Jan.12, 1970, in Waterville to Charlotte and Birchard Rose Sr. He was a longtime resident of […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston committee votes for $64.7 million school budget
LEWISTON — Saying they’d like to do more to reduce class sizes, Lewiston School Committee members approved a $64.7 million budget Monday night, a 5.8 percent increase from the current budget. The proposed budget includes 32 new positions, most of them special ed to keep pace with growing special ed students. About 10 educators would […]
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Big school in Lewiston will deliver smaller classes
LEWISTON — In Lindsay Putney’s crowded kindergarten room Thursday at Farwell Elementary School, her 25 students worked on art. Experts say 25 kindergarten students in one class is too many. State regulations call for kindergarten classes to be no more than 20 students per teacher. A growing student population has created overcrowded schools with classes […]
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Big school gets yes vote from Lewiston School Committee
LEWISTON — The Lewiston School Committee voted Tuesday to build big: a 950-student elementary school for pupils now attending Martel and Longley. The committee agreed with a Redistricting Committee recommendation to build a new school and to take students from other overcrowded elementary schools in the city. If the new school is approved by Lewiston […]