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Rebecca J. Winfield

TOPSHAM — Surrounded by family and friends, Becky Winfield, 53, of Topsham, Maine, passed away peacefully in her home on Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2014. The day started like most springtime days in Maine; birds singing, an early morning mist, and the sun peaking through the clouds. Her brave and courageous battle with cancer had […]

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Norman Henry Munn

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Norman Henry Munn, independent scholar, writer and teacher, died on Feb. 3, 2014, at the Georgetown University Hospital. He was 73. Henry was born in Nashville, Tenn., on Aug. 21, 1940, son of Anna L. Sullivan of Springfield, Mass., and Norman L. Munn of Adelaide, Australia. He was raised in Brunswick, Maine, […]

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Marion A. Boucher

BATH — Marion A. Boucher, 86, died Monday, May 26, 2014, at Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. She was born in Yarmouth on March 28, 1928, a daughter of Harold and Tressa (Duquette) Corliss. She graduated from Morse High School and married Leonard Boucher. She was employed at Health Tex in Brunswick for 21 years […]

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Joan P. White

AUBURN — Joan P. White, age 82, of Clover Manor, died Sunday, May 25, 2014. She is survived by her daughter, Sherida Titus and her husband Wayne of Minot, granddaughter Tina Titus and her fiancé Paul Bilodeau and their daughter MacKenzie, all of Lisbon Falls, and granddaughter Ashley Coates and her husband Nick and their […]

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2 juvenile lifers getting first parole hearings

BOSTON Two Massachusetts inmates sentenced to life without parole as juveniles will be the first to have parole hearings since the state’s highest court struck down mandatory life sentencing for young offenders in December. Joseph Donovan, 38, and Frederick Christian, 37, will have hearings on Thursday. They’re among 63 inmates serving juvenile life without parole […]

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Maine schools can delay graduation requirements

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s top education official says public school districts can now take up to two extra years to implement new proficiencybased graduation requirements if they need the time. Education Commissioner Jim Rier spelled out six ways to apply for extensions in a letter Wednesday to superintendents. Under the new system, created by a […]

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Maya Angelou dies at 86

NEW YORK Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, died Wednesday, her son said. She was 86. Angelou’s son, Guy B. Johnson, said the writer died at her home in Winston- Salem, North Carolina, where she […]