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    PORTLAND – Augustus “Gus” Barber, a former meat cutter who built an innovative frozen-food business that provided jobs to thousands of immigrants in his native Portland, has died at the age of 87. The founder of Barber Foods died Friday at Maine Medical Center after… Read More
    A celebration of life service will be held Saturday for Patty A. Coleman, a former University of Maine professor of social work and one of the founders of the school’s Master of Social Work program who died suddenly Nov. 2 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Read More
    SURRY – Cellist George Sopkin, a founding member of the Fine Arts Quartet and longtime faculty member at Kneisel Hall School of Chamber Music in Blue Hill, died Tuesday at his home. He was 94. Sopkin became involved with Kneisel Hall, the annual school and… Read More
    EASTPORT – There was a sense of loss here Monday as word spread that one of the city’s brightest and youngest leaders died over the weekend. City Councilor Larkin McGarvey, 28, died Saturday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after a long battle with… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Hancock County’s treasurer and a former town manager in three eastern Maine towns has died after a battle with cancer. Sally Crowley died on Tuesday at her home in the Gouldsboro village of Corea, according to colleagues. She was 69. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
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    BAR HARBOR – While Paul Newman is being hailed around the world as a Hollywood legend after his death on Friday, in Maine he is being remembered for his generosity to College of the Atlantic and for the films he made in the southern half of the state. Read More
    FORT KENT – It was “a sad day for both SAD 27 and the St. John Valley,” SAD 27 Superintendent Pat O’Neill said Thursday, as the district received word that its director of finance and projects, James J. Grandmaison, had died suddenly Wednesday during a trip to Italy. Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – The University of Maine at Presque Isle and the surrounding community are mourning the loss of Caroline Gentile, associate professor emeritus of education for the university and its longest serving faculty member. She died Friday, Sept. 19, at age 84. Gentile was… Read More
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    DOVER-FOXCROFT – A longtime Maine legislator from Nobleboro who was the Republican nominee for governor 30 years ago has died at a hospital in Dover-Foxcroft. The Senate Republican caucus said Linwood Palmer Jr. died July 24. He was 87. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
    AUGUSTA – Edgar Erwin, who represented the Rumford area in the Maine Senate from 1983 to 1990, has died at age 88. Erwin, a Democrat, served alongside his wife, Phyllis, who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1981 to 1994. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
    Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a native of Parkman, considered to be the father of medical genetics, died Tuesday of cancer at his home outside Baltimore, Md., at the age of 86. He was the key architect of the Human Genome Project, winner of the National… Read More
    BANGOR – Veteran Bangor Daily News photographer Bob DeLong of Brewer died after a short illness Friday in Bangor at age 68. “Bob DeLong was the epitome of the professional newspaper photographer,” Bangor Daily News Executive Editor Mark Woodward said. “He was versatile, flexible, infinitely… Read More
    Jan Willem van de Wetering, author of more than 30 works of fiction and nonfiction, died Friday, July 4, in Ellsworth. He was born Feb. 12, 1931, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and had lived in Hancock County since 1975. Van de Wetering wrote the popular… Read More
    PLEASANT POINT – Joseph “Cozy” Nicholas, a Passamaquoddy tribal elder, historian and World War II veteran who represented his people for many years in the Legislature, died Thursday in Pleasant Point after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 83. Nicholas was a longtime barber,… Read More
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    CALAIS – Anytime you walked into George Taylor’s furniture store on the River Road, he was there to greet you. For more than 50 years, Taylor, 76, was a fixture in this border community not only as a longtime furniture store owner and civic leader,… Read More
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    AUGUSTA – Richard Randall, former president of the University of Maine at Augusta, died at home Saturday. Randall, 65, of Winthrop retired as president in March after a career at UMA that spanned 40 years. UMA includes University College of Bangor. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
    Huntington Hartford II, 97, heir to the A&P supermarket fortune whose quest to be taken seriously as a patron of the arts led him to bankroll movies, plays, galleries and publications that ultimately drained his wealth, died May 19 at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. Read More
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    ATLANTA – Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Jordan, 63, died at his home in Atlanta about 7:30 p.m.,… Read More
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    OLD TOWN – Kenneth DeWitt, longtime aviator and former manager of the city’s airport, which now bears his name, died in Florida on Saturday at the age of 99. DeWitt, for whom DeWitt Field was named, managed the city’s airport for decades and was president… Read More
    The Rev. Ray Gibbons, a minister with Maine ties who helped Congregational churches in the United States address major social and political issues as director of the Council for Christian Social Action from 1944 to 1968, died of natural causes last month, his son reported last week. Read More
    BELFAST – The funeral service for Waldo County Deputy Sheriff Mark Schade, who died last week in a diving accident, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, at the Belfast Armory. Representatives of law enforcement from across New England are expected to attend… Read More
    A 23-year-old Milo man serving as a U.S. Army specialist was killed Wednesday when the 5-ton truck he was riding in turned over during a training exercise near Slagle, La., officials said Friday. Spc. William Charles Koelsch III of the Headquarters Company of the 1st… Read More
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    PHIPPSBURG – Local historian Jane Stevens, an expert on the establishment of the failed Popham Colony 400 years ago, is dead at the age of 87. Stevens, who died March 22 in a Brunswick hospital, had been living for 25 years in Phippsburg in a… Read More
    KENNEBUNK – William Rogers, a World War II fighter pilot who served as national commander of the American Legion in 1976-77, died Wednesday at Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford after suffering an abdominal aneurysm. He was 87. Rogers, the first Mainer elected to the… Read More
    GORHAM – William Kraushaar, a pioneer in high-energy astronomy and a former physics professor at MIT and the University of Wisconsin, died March 21 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 87. Kraushaar, who devoted much of his career to the study of interstellar matter,… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – Casper G. Sargent Jr., who founded a well-known and well-respected real estate company in Ellsworth and was active in the community for decades, died unexpectedly Sunday after suffering injuries related to a fall. He was 78. Sargent started Sargent Real Estate on High… Read More
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    FALMOUTH – Robert “Bob” Dyk, a longtime Maine broadcaster and a former television network correspondent who covered the hostage crisis in Iran, died Saturday of cancer. He was 71. Dyk began his career as an editorial assistant with CBS News during coverage of the 1960… Read More
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    BANGOR – Richard Kearney Warren, who as publisher led the Bangor Daily News in its transition from molten lead to computers and guided its physical relocation from Exchange Street to Buck Street, died early Friday morning at the age of 87. Warren served as publisher… Read More
    AUGUSTA – A former leader of the Maine State Police, Col. Allan Weeks, died Friday after being stricken at his home in Wiscasset. He died upon arrival at a Damariscotta hospital, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the state police. Weeks, 86, served the state… Read More
    WALDOBORO – Samuel Pennington III, who launched Maine Antique Digest from his kitchen table and grew it into a national publication, has died at the age of 78. In 1973 Pennington and his wife, Sally, wrote the 28-page first issue on a typewriter and distributed… Read More
    MACHIAS – Inspirational. That is how many area residents described Leonard Hooper, an English teacher who taught for more than 50 years, about half of that time at Machias Memorial High School. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
    AUGUSTA – Gov. John Baldacci is mourning the death of Donald Twitchell, a former state representative, state senator and town manager from Norway. Twitchell, who died Wednesday, served five terms in the Maine House of Representatives from 1973 to 1982 and five terms in the… Read More
    MILLINOCKET – A police chief, town councilor and school board member who helped found the Millinocket Area Rotary Club, Wayne Scarano died Wednesday at a New Hampshire hospital. He was 63. Whether as a police officer or civilian, Scarano was described as a man dedicated… Read More
    Burton Hatlen, a literary scholar whose subjects ranged from Shakespeare to Stephen King and whose teachings shaped the minds of four generations of students at the University of Maine, died Monday at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. He was 71. The cause was pneumonia,… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – A poet who taught creative writing at the University of Maine and was assistant editor of the National Poetry Foundation has died. Sylvester Pollet was 68 years old. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var… Read More
    LINCOLN – Douglas E. Kneeland, a member of the Maine Press Association Hall of Fame, longtime New York Times correspondent and former Chicago Tribune editor, died Saturday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 78. During his 22 years with the Times, Kneeland reported… Read More
    NEW YORK – Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits “Leader of the Band” and “Same Old Lang Syne” helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56. His death was announced Sunday in… Read More
    NEW YORK – Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic with Maine ties whose incisive prose helped her fulfill her dream of becoming a “New York intellectual,” has died. She was 91. Hardwick, who maintained a summer residence for many years in Castine, died Sunday… Read More
    FITCHBURG, Mass. – William E. Aubuchon Jr., 91, of Fitchburg, who for decades ran the Aubuchon Hardware chain of stores in the Northeast, died Nov. 26 at home surrounded by his family after an illness. Aubuchon was born Aug. 13, 1916, in Fitchburg, the eldest… Read More
    HARTFORD, Conn. – Martha Kostyra, whose daughter Martha Stewart credits her with teaching her many domestic tricks and techniques, has died at a hospital near her home in Weston. She was 93. Stewart announced her mother’s death Saturday on her blog, and Weston selectman Glenn… Read More
    The Colby College community is mourning this week after the accidental drowning of longtime Waterville resident Thomas Kopp. Kopp, 69, was on a camping trip Saturday with his son and three grandsons when their boat was swamped by a wave on Great Pond in Belgrade. Read More
    BELGRADE – Colby College was mourning the death of a 69-year-old administrator whose body was recovered from Great Pond the morning after his aluminum skiff capsized while on a camping trip with family members. Thomas Kopp, senior associate dean of admissions, had worked at the… Read More
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    AUGUSTA – Bennett Katz, a former Maine Senate leader who was instrumental in establishing a state university campus in Augusta, died Thursday. Katz, who was 89, died at a retirement home in Topsham where he had been living with his wife. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
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    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND – Louisa Livingston Kennedy, who was an eloquent spokeswoman for the families of the 52 American hostages held in Iran, died Aug. 19 on Mount Desert Island. She was 73 years old. As wife of Moorhead Kennedy, a U.S. diplomat held hostage… Read More
    Clayton Beal, a 30-year veteran employee of the Bangor Daily News, died July 30 at the age of 73 after a brief illness. Beal was hired by the Bangor Daily News as the Washington County bureau chief in 1966 and held that post until his… Read More
    BANGOR – When characterizing retired Brig. Gen. George Christakos on Monday, Maj. Gen. Bill Libby said his former colleague, who died on Friday, was best remembered as a “no-nonsense, clear-thinking, straight-talking kind of guy.” Libby, adjutant general of the Maine National Guard, said he considered… Read More
    MADAWASKA – A former Madawaska school superintendent and lifelong educator was remembered Friday by friends as a hard-working man, dedicated to his family and the education of children. Danny R.P. Michaud, 53, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 4 at the Maine Medical Center in… Read More
    FORT WORTH, Texas – Lady Bird Johnson, widow of former President Lyndon Johnson and lifelong advocate for the beautification of her native state, died Wednesday afternoon at her Austin, Texas, home. She was 94. Mrs. Johnson had been in poor health for several years. She… Read More
    Hunters and fishermen are gathering in Millinocket today to pay final respects to a registered guide renowned in Maine’s sporting community for his knowledge of the outdoors, vibrant personality and seemingly endless energy. Wilmot “Wiggie” Robinson became a master Maine guide in 1950, but the… Read More
    MADISON, Wis. – Services have been scheduled Wednesday for Douglas Beard, a Maine native who became one of the senior administrators of the University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic department. Beard, 46, died at his Stoughton home Friday night, according to the death notice from Olson-Holzhuter-Cress Funeral… Read More
    AUGUSTA – A Maine Army National Guard soldier from Phillips died in Iraq earlier this week, Gov. John Baldacci said Friday. Sgt. Richard Parker was killed in action Wednesday. The 26-year-old Parker was a member of Battery A, 1st Battalion, 152nd Field Artillery Regiment from… Read More
    BANGOR – Charles Bragg II, one of the city’s oldest and most civic-minded residents, died Tuesday. He was 96. Bragg, well-known for his trademark bow ties and cardigan sweaters, dedicated his life to his family, to the family business – N.H. Bragg and Sons –… Read More