December 25, 2024
Correction

Correcting the record

A Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. employee was identified incorrectly on Page 17 in today’s Perspective advertising supplement. He is Bruce Bender, not Michael Henderson.

The weekend Sudoku puzzle accidentally was omitted from the Lifestyle section. It can be found in the State section on Page C6.

A story on Page B1 of Wednesday’s paper about the Dorothea Dix Award for service to Mainers with mental illness needs clarification. While Melissa Gattine of Cumberland Center is the first recipient of the newly created award from the state Department of Health and Human Services, an unrelated award with the same name has been given for the past seven years by The Acadia Hospital in Bangor. A spokesman at Acadia said Friday that when the Legislature created the departmental award last year, the hospital retired its own Dorothea Dix award to avoid confusion. Acadia is designing a new award to recognize service to the community, he said.

In an April 6 story about the traffic death of film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” The Associated Press misspelled the surname of the author on whose childhood memoirs the film was based. It’s Jean Shepherd, not Shepard.


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