TOPSHAM — Peggy Lynn Weinzetl of Topsham, Maine passed away peacefully with her husband, Tim holding her hand on September 1, 2018 at the age of 66 from cancer at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. Peggy was born on September 5, 1951 in Slayton, Minnesota. She is the daughter of James and Wava […]
September 2018
Richard F. Dunbar Jr.
Richard F. Dunbar Jr., 54, of Bowdoinham, died on September 1, 2018, at Maine Med in Portland. His father Richard Dunbar Sr. born 5/24/1942. Mother Elizabeth J. Larner born 12/2/1942. Richard attended Mt. Ararat High School. He was currently self employed as a worm harvester and firewood business. He enjoyed motorcycle riding , family vacations […]
Barbara Alexander
PHIPPSBURG — Barbara (Curran) Alexander, 82, of Sebasco Road, died on Sunday, September 2, 2018, at Winship Green in Bath, Maine. Barbara was born on February 28, 1936 , the daughter of Evelyn (Pratt) and Howard Curran. Barbara is predeceased by her husband, Russell Alexander who she married on July 11, 1953 and together they […]
Martha B. Weisberg
BRUNSWICK — Martha B. Weisberg, 84, passed away on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Brunswick, Maine. Born on Dec. 9, 1933, in Gaffney, SC, she was the daughter of the late William Forest and Julia Robbs Byars, wife of Myron “Bud” Weisberg, sister of Robert, Furman, and Roy Byars, Mildred Byars Sprinkle, and aunt of […]
Emanuel not seeking third term as mayor
CHICAGO Rahm Emanuel, whose tumultuous tenure as Chicago mayor included an infamous police shooting and a surge in violent crime, said in a surprise announcement that he would abandon his plan to seek a third term next year but gave no reason for the sudden change of heart. Emanuel also led the effort to conduct […]
Child killed by falling tree as storm arrives
GULFPORT, Miss. A child died when a tree fell onto a mobile home in Florida late Tuesday as Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The Escambia County Sheriff ’s office posted on its Facebook page that deputies responded to a call of the fallen tree in Pensacola and discovered the […]
Mass primary upset ousts incumbent Dem.
BOSTON (AP) — Ayanna Pressley is all but assured of becoming the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, the latest example of the Democratic Party’s embrace of diversity and liberal politics as the recipe for success in the Trump era. The 44-year-old’s upset victory against longtime Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano in Tuesday’s primary […]
Florida child killed by falling tree in Gordon
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama- Mississippi border. The National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday that Gordon was weakening as it […]
Miss America pageant begins amid turmoil
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. The post-swimsuit era for the Miss America pageant begins tonight. It does so amid a revolt by state pageant officials unhappy with the way the decision to drop swimsuits was made, and who are demanding that top leadership, including chairwoman Gretchen Carlson, step down. The current Miss America, Cara Mund, has accused […]