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Labor Day Regatta on Taylor Pond

Ben Condit, center, Leslie Shields, left, Kora Martel, second from right, and Natalie Garcia sail toward the mark Sunday during the annual Labor Day Regatta on Taylor Pond in Auburn. Eleven sailors in eight boats from Taylor Pond Yacht Club sailed in the event. Condit, 13, is an eighth-grader at Auburn Middle School. (Daryn Slover/Sun […]

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Ice fisherman performs CPR on friend

AUBURN — With no formal training, an ice fisherman breathed life back into a friend who had collapsed on Taylor Pond on Saturday afternoon. Gary Croteau, 59, of Auburn was drilling his eighth hole through the ice with his friend, Larry, whose grandchildren were expected to join them later. Croteau, who has a small shack […]

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Ruth Higgins Horsman

1923 – 2015 FALMOUTH — Ruth Richardson Higgins Horsman died Tuesday, April 7, at Falmouth by the Sea Hospice Care. She was born in Bar Harbor Nov. 28, 1923, the daughter of late Thomas Carol and Armida Richardson Higgins. Ruth graduated from Bar Harbor High School and University of Maine at Orono in 1945 with […]

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Early-morning fire damages Auburn home

AUBURN — An early-morning fire damaged a home at 17 Pond Crest Lane on Thursday. Firefighters arrived at the home around 5:30 a.m. and spotted fire coming from the bedroom window on the second floor, Auburn Fire Department Battalion Chief Dean Milligan said. The fire was extinguished in about 20 minutes. “Fire damage was limited […]