October 2014
Edward Parr Johnson Jr.
PHIPPSBURG — Edward Parr Johnson Jr., a retired electrical engineering executive, a resident of Phippsburg and husband of Elizabeth Hill Johnson, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick after a brief illness. He was 83. Mr. Johnson was born in Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 1930, the son of Edward and Grace […]
Grace Marion Lane
BRUNSWICK & SOUTH HARPSWELL — Grace Marion Lane, 87, died Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, at Sedgewood Commons in Falmouth. She was born in Lewiston, Oct. 16, 1926, the daughter of Randall and Alice Orr Lane. She graduated from Brunswick High School, class of 1944. Grace spent most of her growing up years in Harpswell at […]
Susan Holt Muench
NEWARK, Ohio — A memorial service for Susan Holt Muench, age 54, of Newark, Ohio, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Brushy Fork United Methodist Church, Newark, with Pastors Dean Cole and Deb Dingus officiating. Interment will take place at a later date in Oak Cemetery in Georgetown, Maine. Susan […]
Jean Ann Doughty
BAILEY ISLAND — Jean Ann Doughty, of Bailey Island, passed away on Sept. 30, 2014, at the age of 92 in Brunswick at the Horizon Living and Rehab Center following a long battle with dementia. She was born in Quincy, Mass., on June 2, 1923, the daughter of Philip R. and Alexandria Ann (MacLean) Allen. […]
Airport screening for Ebola: 5 things to know
WASHINGTON The Obama administration announced Wednesday that airline passengers arriving from the three West African countries experiencing an unprecedented Ebola outbreak will now be screened for potential exposure to the deadly disease when they arrive at five major U.S. airports. The screening will include having their temperatures taken. Five things you need to know about […]
Firefighters battle 5 Calif. blazes, closing section of Interstate 80
APPLEGATE, CALIF. Firefighters on the ground and in the air battled five grass fires totaling about 380 acres that forced the closure of eastbound Interstate 80 northeast of Sacramento, burned at least one home and threatened dozens more Wednesday One home in the unincorporated community of Applegate in Placer County was destroyed by the blazes […]
U.S.-led airstrikes hit besieged Syrian town
MURSITPINAR, Turkey The U.S.-led coalition pounded positions of the Islamic State group in the Syrian border town of Kobani today in some of the most intensive strikes in the air campaign so far, a Kurdish official and an activist group said. But despite the airstrikes overnight and into the morning, the Islamic State fighters managed […]