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5 days ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
In the late fall of 1942, almost a year past the Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Veronica Conlon Devine — still lovely, dark-haired and green-eyed, widowed at 49 years on earth — sat with her 10-year-old son on her lap, watching a comic opera being played out before us. A big collection of chickens of all breeds, strayed from the collection of garden master Sister Amelia at an aging convent across the street, had gotten free.
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1 week ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
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1 week ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
ORONO — After temporarily pausing new graduate student financial offers, the University of Maine announced it will honor all offers already made to incoming graduate students, in addition to making new offers. The university announced in March it was pausing funding for incoming graduate students after the Maine State Legislature passed a baseline budget with flat funding for the public university system and amid uncertainties around federal public university funding.
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1 week ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
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1 week ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
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1 week ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
SKOWHEGAN — A Somerset County grand jury has indicted the 59-year-old Norridgewock man arrested in connection with the March shooting death of his girlfriend’s son. The grand jury indicted Daniel V. Markey on one count of intentional or knowing murder when it met in April, court records show. The indictment alleges Markey used a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver to kill Christopher Nickerson, 39, on March 1 in Norridgewock.
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2 weeks ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
When She was a little girl during World War II, her family had a maid. Oh, no, they weren’t rich, just well educated French stock, whose ancestors came down from Canada in the long, long ago. The “maid” was their housekeeper, a simple local girl named Jolene whose boyfriend was away in the Army in Europe.
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2 weeks ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
Lawrence/Winslow’s Zoie Ward, left, and Erskine Academy’s Shannon McDonough keep their eyes on the ball Wednesday. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Buy Image Buy Image Bangor/Nokomis tennis player Emma Vardaros, left, gets some advice from teammate and sister Ava Vardaros Tuesday during a break in her second singles match at Messalonskee High School in Oakland.
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2 weeks ago | 
sunjournal.com | Stacy Blanchet
HARTLAND — The death of a woman on April 12 has been ruled a homicide, the circumstances surrounding the death remain under investigation by the Maine State police. Vilma Withee, 78, of Hartland has been identified as the deceased, Shannon Moss, public information officer for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said in a news release issued Monday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
centralmaine.com | Stacy Blanchet
HARTLAND — The owner of a lakefront brewery whose business is subject of an ongoing lawsuit against the town is set to face off against an incumbent selectman who says his opponent could have a conflict of interest because of the pending lawsuit. Hartland voters are set to choose between Selectman John A. Hikel or Robert C. Bryant, his challenger, for a three-year term on the Board of Selectmen in the only contested race in Friday’s municipal election.
