There will be a Christmas performance by pianist Kelia Ingraham at Atria Kennebunk at 2 p.m. A homemade egg nog and ginger-snap cookies will be served. An Eastern Trails full moon walk will take place at 6 p.m. in Biddeford. Participants will meet at the rear of the Southern Maine Health Care parking lot, located […]
2015
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Gleanings
10 years ago From the Journal Tribune: “There was a loud ‘ka-boom’ and then silence. A quantity of potassium metal, potentially unstable and of unknown age, had been carried away from Sanford High School and safely detonated.” 50 years ago From the Biddeford-Saco Journal: “A Biddeford woman, Yvette Montambeault, 42, of 15 Cottage St. is […]
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2015. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. On this date: In 1814, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 following ratification by both the British Parliament and the U.S. Senate. In […]
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 24, 1955, the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, found itself fielding phone calls from children wanting to know the whereabouts of Santa Claus after a newspaper ad mistakenly gave the Center’s number; the result was a tradition continued by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of tracking […]
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For family of special-needs kids, special help
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — It takes a strict routine and a lot of help to raise a family of special-needs children. Few know this better than Eric and Dennis Volz-Benoit, who have five. Typical days involve feeding tubes, breathing treatments, medications and assembly-line showers, not to mention taking kids to school, making dinner and washing clothes. […]
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Officials propose Sununu Center changes
CONCORD, N.H. — Faced with a $5 million budget cut to the state’s juvenile detention center in Manchester, New Hampshire health officials and a legislative working group are at odds over how to best transform parts of the underused facility. The health department wants to convert half the Sununu Youth Services Center into a psychiatric […]
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Woman caught shoplifting after hearing
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Police say a Massachusetts mother is facing new charges alleging she stole merchandise from a New Hampshire department store shortly after she was arraigned on prior shoplifting charges. Thirty-three-year-old Adelaida Jordan of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was charged Monday with willful concealment, endangering the welfare of a child and other offenses. Police say […]
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Judge to decide on videoconferencing
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A judge is considering whether to save Vermont’s decades-old videoconferencing system. Vermont Interactive Technologies is expected to be dismantled on Jan. 1. Vermont Public Radio reports that a preliminary injunction hearing was held Tuesday in Montpelier. Vermont Telecommunications chief Jim Porter told the judge that the equipment is funded until January […]
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Benjamin C. Merrill
KENNEBUNKPORT — Benjamin C. “Ben” Merrill, 36, of Kennebunkport died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford following a sudden health emergency, surrounded by his loving family. Survivors include: his parents, Terry and Crickette Merrill of Kennebunkport; older brother, Brent of St. Petersburg, Florida; and twin brother, Dean of Portland. Visiting […]
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Jorga Gourdouros
BIDDEFORD — Jorga Gourdouros, 64, of Biddeford, died on Wednesday, December 16, 2015, in Portland. The daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Mourmouras) Gourdouros, she was born in Portland on January 13, 1951. She was a 1969 graduate of Thorton Academy. She worked in the medical department for Union Mutual Insurance for 22 years, retiring in […]