Gillian Graham

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Jun. 16—Three people died in separate fires over the weekend in Newfield, Caribou and Wilton, according to the state fire marshal's office. The first fire broke out shortly after midnight Saturday at 62 Magrath Road in Wilton, where one woman was rescued from a second-floor bedroom by firefighters and neighbors. A man, 84-year-old Robert Adams, was found outside, injured from an apparent jump from the window, according to Shannon Moss, spokesperson for Maine Department of Public Safety.

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Jun. 13—The scene inside the trailer in Ayer, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1980 was grim: 48-year-old Katharina Reitz Brow lay dead, her body covered with 30 stab wounds and beaten with a blunt instrument. The knife she was killed with was left behind in a wastebasket. More than two years later, a man who lived nearby was arrested and convicted of her murder, but his conviction was vacated in 2001 after DNA analysis of a blood stain at the scene determined it was left by another man.

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Sanford voters on Tuesday approved a $68.9 million school budget. The budget was approved by a vote of 509-167. Voters also decided to continue school budget validation referendums for the next three years. Five percent of the city’s 14,449 registered voters cast ballots on Tuesday. Copy the Story Link

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Jun. 10—When poll workers opened the doors to Buxton Town Hall at 6 a.m. Tuesday, there were two voters waiting in line. A third arrived shortly after. It was a vastly different scene from November, when dozens of people waited in a line that stretched down the sidewalk and around the side of the building. Despite the slow start, Town Clerk John Myers was hoping at least 1,000 of the town's 6,200 registered voters show up Tuesday. "Anything over 1,200 would definitely be unusual.

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Jun. 10—When poll workers opened the doors to Buxton Town Hall at 6 a.m., there were two voters waiting in line. A third arrived shortly after. It was a vastly different scene in November when dozens of people waited in a line that stretched down the sidewalk and around the side of the building. Despite the slow start, Town Clerk John Myers is hoping at least 1,000 of the town's 6,200 registered voters show up Tuesday. "Anything over 1,200 would definitely be unusual.