FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors approved a budget calendar Thursday that sets them on track for the annual, districtwide budget meeting vote May 1, followed by a referendum May 15. Voters approved a 2017-18 budget in October after four attempts. The budget meetings will start at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays beginning Feb. 6, all […]
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Volunteers and yarn donations needed
DEAR SUN SPOTS: When a landlord rents an apartment that requires a security deposit, isn’t he supposed to put that in a separate account and, if available, at the end, pay it back to the tenants with interest accumulated on that account? Just wondering — after all, that is their money. — No name, Rumford. […]
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Volunteer finds family in SEARCH
LEWISTON — Danielle Boisvert’s parents and siblings live in Canada, but she has another family of sorts in Central Maine — a network of local seniors she visits weekly. Sometimes they need a lift to the store or to the doctor’s office. Sometimes they need a ride around town to finish their errands. But most […]
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Lewiston man charged in son’s death seeks to have statements thrown out
AUBURN — A Lewiston man charged with manslaughter in his baby son’s death is seeking to have statements he made to police kept from trial. Sean St. Amand, 28, filed motions through his attorney, George Hess, to bar prosecutors from using statements St. Amand made to police on Oct. 20 during an interrogation. Hess wrote […]
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Project Lifesaver in Auburn helps keep wanderers from getting lost
AUBURN — In early June, a 12-year-old autistic girl wandered away from her Auburn home. It was the kind of vanishing act that would normally cause panic and a frantic search. But not this time. This time, the missing lass was found within minutes, thanks to a technology dubbed Project Lifesaver, a program aimed at […]
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Search for homeless goes on despite storm
LEWISTON — Despite a winter storm that buried the city in snow Tuesday, an annual hunt for the homeless in the city and across Maine got underway after sunset Wednesday. Gerry DeWitt, a volunteer and social worker with the Veterans Outreach Program, said the survey goes on regardless of the weather, as part of an […]
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Shots fired trigger search in Leeds
LEEDS — State and local police searched Monday night for a possible shooting suspect in the area of Line Road. Just before 8 p.m., officers from the Maine State Police and Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department responded to a residence on Country View Drive for a possible shooting. A dispatcher said there was a “large altercation,” […]
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Maine Appalachian Trail hiker still missing one year later
One doesn’t vanish without a trace from the Appalachian Trail in Maine. But Geraldine “Gerry” Anita Largay, 66, did a year ago Tuesday. However, Maine’s biggest-ever search for a missing AT hiker didn’t start right away. When Largay failed to show up at a prearranged meeting place with her husband, George, on Route 27 in […]
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Searchers, dogs, find missing man in New Hampshire forest
JEFFERSON, N.H. — A combination of teamwork, thermal imaging and search dogs helped rescuers find a 19-year-old autistic man who went missing in the woods for five hours in Jefferson, New Hampshire. The Fish and Game Department says a dog acquired the track from Route 115 near the Jefferson/Carroll town line and followed it Monday. […]
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Nigerian defense chief says abducted girls located
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but fears using force to try to free them could get them killed, the country’s chief of defense said Monday. Air Marshal Alex Barde told demonstrators supporting the much criticized military that Nigerian troops can save the girls. But […]