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PublishedDecember 2, 2020
Even in a pandemic, many familiar hardships drive parents to the Toy Fund
One mother seeking help can’t work because of medical issues.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2020
On Giving Tuesday, a mother’s plea for help
Just as Black Friday and Cyber Monday are important for people in the retail business, Giving Tuesday has become a good day for the thousands of Maine children helped each year by the Press Herald Toy Fund. They just don’t know it. The fund uses donations from readers to buy gifts for children who face […]
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PublishedDecember 1, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Dec. 1
Dec. 1, 1994: President Bill Clinton appoints Maine’s retiring U.S. Sen. George Mitchell to be his special adviser on economic initiatives in Ireland. Mitchell, 60, served in the Senate for 15 years and was the Senate majority leader for the last six of those years. His new appointment is preparation for a much more demanding […]
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PublishedNovember 30, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 30
Nov. 30, 1989: A massive fire destroys most of the long-vacant former Edwards Manufacturing Co. mill complex in Augusta at the base of Sand Hill. The fire, which could be seen up to 20 miles away, began inside an elevator in the north end of the building, according to some workers there. Reported at 3 […]
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PublishedNovember 30, 2020
Longtime volunteer doesn’t hesitate to help children in ‘very different’ year
Carl Akin, 81, of Yarmouth recognizes that many Maine children will need a little holiday cheer and sense of normalcy during the pandemic.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2020
Donations honor memory of former toy fund director
Gordon Corkum, who led the Press Herald Toy Fund for many years, died last May at the age of 77.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 29
Nov. 29, 1882: Calais native James Shepherd Pike dies at 71 after a journalism career that brought him fame first for his ardent anti-slavery, anti-Confederacy views, and later for his sensationalistic criticism of corruption that thrived under Ulysses Grant’s administration as well as what Pike portrayed as the abominable misrule by freed Blacks in the […]
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PublishedNovember 28, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 28
Nov. 28, 1981: Longtime Somerset County Deputy Sheriff Bud Hendsbee and his wife, Helen, a Madison selectwoman, leave home in their pickup truck, headed for Farmington, where they plan to have dinner at a new restaurant. According to an account given later by Bud Hendsbee, as they pass through the tiny town of Starks on […]
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PublishedNovember 28, 2020
Family teetering on edge of homelessness asks for help
Parents of two children, ages 5 and 2, say they have nothing for gifts this year.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 27
Nov. 27, 1898: The steamship Portland sinks in what comes to be known as the Portland Gale, resulting in the deaths of about 200 people, including 63 crew members. The ship is bound from Boston to Portland when the storm strikes off Cape Ann in Massachusetts, causing New England’s worst maritime disaster of the 19th […]
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