1917 – 2016 WORCESTER, Mass. — Sherman George Shapiro of Worcester, Mass., and Scarborough, passed away peacefully Friday, Dec. 30, with family at his side. He was born in 1917. Nicknamed “Sonny” for his sunny disposition, he celebrated his 99th birthday on Dec. 3. A native and longtime resident of Auburn, and a 1935 graduate […]
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38-year-old dies in Sherman ATV crash
SHERMAN (AP) — The Maine Warden Service says a 38-year-old man is dead after an all-terrain vehicle crash in Sherman. Corporal John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service says 38-year-old Bryon Jacobs of Stacyville was pronounced dead at the scene. A 16-year-old passenger was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. The passenger reported the accident at […]
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Aroostook County farmers complain of cow heads in trees, ‘piles of dead animals’
SHERMAN — An official with Maine’s agricultural department confirmed Saturday that agents with his department will be in southern Aroostook County on Tuesday to investigate allegations of illegally or improperly disposed animal carcasses. “We will have boots on the ground Tuesday morning,” Matthew Randall, agriculture compliance supervisor with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and […]
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Three children hurt, horse killed when car strikes buggy
ISLAND FALLS (AP) — State police say four young children were injured and a horse was killed when a car driven by a Sherman man struck their horse-drawn buggy in Island Falls. The children — ages 9, 8, 7 and 5 — are members of the small Amish community in Aroostook County and were transporting […]
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Sherman crash leads to alcohol charge
SHERMAN — A Stacyville man has been charged with furnishing a place for minor to consume alcohol after three people sustained minor injuries in a single-vehicle accident on Benedicta Road, according to Maine State Police. The accident occurred around 6:45 a.m. Saturday, state police indicated in a prepared release. Nichole Goguen, 18, of Houlton was […]
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The Hot Corner: Sherman saga accentuates great divide
We watch sports, at least in part, because the result is unpredictable. If only the same could be said for our collective reaction to everything that unfolds before, within and after the games. Televised athletic events used to be our escape from mindless political debates and the other real, if ill-conceived, divisions that split our […]
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Skakel to get new trial
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut judge on Wednesday ordered a new trial for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who was convicted more than a decade ago of murdering a teenage neighbor, his defense attorney’s office said. Skakel’s attorneys had argued before state Superior Court Judge Thomas Bishop that his previous defense attorney, Mickey Sherman, did not […]