BRUNSWICK — “Water From the Well: Easter Rejoicing Inspired by the Celtic Saints” will begin Sunday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. and continue each Sunday evening through May 24. “It is a bit unusual, perhaps, that Lutherans would feature the writings of Celtic saints as inspiration for an evening prayer service,” said the Rev. Rebecca […]
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Beans on menu at First Parish Church
FREEPORT — First Parish Church will host a public church supper on Saturday, April 11, from 5-6 p.m. The menu includes three kinds of beans, American chop suey, cole slaw, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, rolls, desserts and beverages. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children. For more information, call the church […]
United Methodists dishing out the beans
BRUNSWICK — Brunswick United Methodist Church will host a public supper — “good food and good friends” — on Saturday, April 11, from 5- 6:30 p.m. The menu will include beans, salads, casseroles and homemade pies. Reservations are accepted but not required. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children. The church is […]
First Baptist planning women’s conference
BATH — First Baptist Church will host its fifth annual women’s conference on April 11 from 9 a.m. to noon. Bonnie Merrill will be the featured speaker to the conference, which will also be open to teenage girls. She will speak on the “Seven I Am” statements in the Book of John. Cost for the […]
Buddhist ordination set for Saturday
WEST BATH — On Saturday, April 11, Kunsang Dorje Paul Gallagher will receive the Temporary Ordination as a Monastic in the Surmang Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism by Gelong (Senior Monastic) Lodro Sangpo. Lodro Sangpo is a Senior Monastic from Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The 9 a.m. service will be held at […]
Woman who robbed vet’s home sentenced
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine woman who pleaded guilty to a series of crimes, including a burglary at the under-construction home of a soldier who lost all four limbs in an explosion in Afghanistan, has been sentenced to serve nine months in prison. The Kennebec Journal reports that Tiffany Fitzpatrick, of Augusta, was also placed […]
Police search for home invasion suspects
PORTLAND (AP) — Portland police are looking for three men they say forced their way in a city home, restrained the residents and stole money, before fleeing. At least two of the suspects in the Thursday morning home invasion had guns. The residents told police that three men forced their way into their apartment, restrained […]
Louis H. Richards
GEORGETOWN — Louis Harold Richards, 82, of Georgetown, Maine, formerly of Somersworth, NH, passed peacefully on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015, holding his daughter Debra’s hand, joining his wife, Elaine, his daughter, LuAnn and his two brothers, Walter and Franklin. Always a military man at heart, Lou followed the footsteps of his two brothers who […]
Frederick C. Barstow
Frederick C. Barstow, 84, died peacefully and surrounded by his family on Monday, April 6, 2015, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland after suffering a stroke. He was born on Oct. 13, 1930, in Massena, N.Y., the son of Ray and Helen Barstow. His father worked in the family hardware store, and he had […]
Kenneth Yore
Kenneth Yore, 84, of Ormond Beach, Fla., and Damariscotta, Maine, died peacefully at home in Florida on Sunday, March 29, 2015. He was known by his family as Ken and was born in Lewiston, Maine, on March 20, 1931, to Edward and Esther (Abbott) Yore. His family moved to Bath, Maine, to work at Bath […]