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PARIS – Murray “Mike” Thurston, a driving force in the development of the original Sunday River ski resort, has died at the age of 87. Thurston died Tuesday at the Maine Veterans’ Home. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tom Gish, who shone the spotlight on corruption and environmental degradation in his corner of southeastern Kentucky as an award-winning publisher of The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg for a half-century, died Nov. 21. He was 82. His son, Ben Gish, said he… Read More
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
DOVER-FOXCROFT – James “Jim” Brown, 57, was a family man, an inspirational teacher, a mentor, a coach, a true friend and a willing volunteer who gave more to his community and his school than he ever realized. Those who were on the receiving end of… 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
Retired physician and educator Dr. Robert Weiss died Tuesday night at his home in Orono with his family at his bedside. He was 90 years old. A psychiatrist, Weiss founded the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, served as an associate director of the… Read More
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
EASTPORT – He was the city’s most notable ambassador. John Pike Grady, 82, died Wednesday at the Eastport Memorial Nursing Home. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i = 0; i… Read More
Sonya Barclay, the Old Town mother of four whose struggle with cancer sparked a communitywide movement to grant her wish for a new house for her family, died early Wednesday. Barclay’s longtime friend Jennifer Dudley of Winterport, who was one of three women who spearheaded… Read More
HANCOCK – Dr. Eva Reich, daughter of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and lecturer on the controversial work on orgonomy that he pioneered more than a half-century ago, died Aug. 10 at her home. She was 84. Eva Reich, a native of Vienna who moved to the… Read More
LAS VEGAS – Robert A. Maheu, a former Howard Hughes confidant and CIA operative once involved in a failed plot to poison Fidel Castro, has died in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 90. Maheu was born in Waterville, Maine. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define… 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
BREWER – The man who sold power tools from his family’s hardware store in Bangor and operated the water-powered sawmill for Living History Days at Leonard’s Mills in Bradley has died. Fred C. Hanson died Saturday at age 89. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
BANGOR – Calvin L. Jolley, longtime resident of Greater Bangor and a local businessman for more than 40 years, died June 18 in Mount Dora, Fla. at age 83. Born June 29, 1924, in Waterloo, Quebec, he immigrated to Bangor, after returning from Europe at… Read More
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
Alton Kelley, a San Francisco graphic artist whose psychedelic posters and album covers captured the mood and music of the Grateful Dead, the Steve Miller Band, Journey and other top rock and roll groups of the ’60s and ’70s, has died. He was 67. Kelley… Read More
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
BOISE, Idaho – Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America, died May 25 at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada County Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg said Simplot apparently died of natural causes. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
BOSTON – Dr. Erwin Hirsch, a renowned trauma surgeon who saved lives from the jungles of Vietnam to the streets of Boston, drowned in a boating accident Friday. He was 72. Hirsch, the longtime chief of Boston Medical Center’s trauma surgery unit, died after the… Read More
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
BROOKS – Country View Golf Club co-owner Carl Brown died Thursday morning in what police are calling an accidental drowning. Brown, 75, was in his personal water truck Thursday around 8:45 a.m. and was filling it with a friend on one of the course’s ponds,… Read More
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BRUNSWICK – Campbell Niven, former publisher of the Times Record and longtime Brunswick civic leader, has died at the age of 78. The Boston native and Bowdoin College graduate died Monday night at Mid Coast Senior Health Center. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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
ELLSWORTH – Tom Salisbury, a local man known as Cowboy Tommy Dean on his Independent Country music program at radio station WERU, has died at the age of 50. “We lost a really big heart at WERU,” Joel Mann, the station’s program and operations manager,… 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
BANGOR – Former lawyer and City Council Chairman Nicholas P. Brountas was remembered Tuesday as a family man, talented lawyer and gentleman. Brountas, a second-generation Greek-American, died Monday at age 84 at a local health care facility. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… 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
BANGOR – Autum Aquino of Bangor, whose early advocacy for AIDS awareness and education brought her national recognition, died unexpectedly Thursday at Eastern Maine Medical Center. Aquino was exposed to human immunodeficiency virus in her mother’s womb and diagnosed with the infection when she was… Read More
BANGOR – Former Bangor mayor, school committee chairman and Husson College professor Albert Weymouth was remembered Thursday as a man who cared deeply about his community. Weymouth, who was in his early 80s, died Thursday. No other information about his death or about funeral arrangements… 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
CAMDEN – Harvey Picker lived “the most extraordinary life I’ve ever known,” Jack Sanford, a former business associate and friend, said Wednesday. Picker died March 22 at age 92. He was a physicist, inventor, educator, businessman and philanthropist, according to his obituary. Picker was born… Read More
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
LITTLETON – Services will be held today for a longtime resident who helped preserve the town’s rich agricultural history. The funeral for Cedric M. Shaw, 91, who died Tuesday, will begin at 1 p.m. Friends may call from 11:30 a.m. until the time of the… Read More
ELLSWORTH – Edward “Eddie” Povich, a former Democratic state legislator and a longtime shopkeeper in Ellsworth, died Thursday at his home after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 60 years old. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
HONOLULU – John Roderick, an Associated Press correspondent who won renown for his reports on Mao Zedong and other communist guerrilla leaders while living with them in their cave headquarters in the mid-1940s, has died. He was 93. Roderick died Tuesday morning, friends and family… Read More
LUBEC – As word spread of Dennis Lewia’s death, the whole town stopped to mourn the loss of the longtime medical provider and friend. Lewia, 62, died unexpectedly Tuesday of complications from heart surgery. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
BANGOR – Richard Kearney Warren, 87, passed away Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, at Westgate Manor. He was born April 13, 1920, in New York, N.Y., the son of the late Anna L. Kearney and George Earle Warren. He graduated from the Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn., and from Yale… Read More
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
BANGOR – Friends and colleagues of Julian H. Orr on Tuesday remembered the former city manager as a respected leader who spread his knowledge across the country and around the world. Orr, 92, died Tuesday at his home in Dirigo Pines Retirement Community in Orono. 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
RUMFORD – John L. Batherson, a decorated World War II veteran and a Maine judge for 36 years, died Thursday, Dec. 27 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was 85. Batherson was a native of Rumford, where he and his wife of 57… 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
Harold Alfond, the former shoe company magnate whose generosity can and will continue to be seen in all corners of Maine and beyond, died early Friday morning at the age of 93. Alfond had battled cancer for 20 years and died at MaineGeneral Hospital in… Read More
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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
BANGOR – The community is mourning the loss of a woman who left her mark in a variety of circles, ranging from education, health care and youth services to banking, social services and her church. LaJune Means died Wednesday at the age of 88 at… Read More
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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BANGOR – Linda M. McRea, a veteran Maine newspaper reporter, editor and columnist most recently employed by the Bangor Daily News, died Wednesday, Sept. 26, at her home in Bangor after a brief illness. She was 57. She was born Linda Louise McRea on Oct. Read More
WESTPORT, Conn. – Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on “Match Game” in the 1970s, has died, her son said. Somers, who grew up in Maine, was 83. Somers died Sept. 15 at her home in Westport of… Read More
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AUGUSTA – The sudden death of the newest member of the Maine House of Representatives prompted expressions of shock and sadness Tuesday by legislative leaders. Rep. Deane Jones, D-Mount Vernon, died unexpectedly Monday from complications during treatment for lung cancer, according to the office of… Read More
A longtime trustee and educator at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic who was an early advocate for online education and using computer technology to enhance education has died. Donald B. Straus was 91. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
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
After a tumultuous year that saw her family squabbling over her care and her riches, longtime Mount Desert Island summer resident Brooke Astor died Monday afternoon. The heir to the Astor family fortune, who famously gave away $200 million to mostly New York City institutions… Read More
GREENVILLE – The 80-year-old state representative who served most of Piscataquis County died of cancer Wednesday. Rep. Earl E. Richardson, R-Greenville, was serving his fourth term at the State House after working as town manager in Greenville. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… 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
MOSCOW – A soldier from western Maine died from injuries suffered in a roadside bombing in Iraq, becoming the third soldier from the state to die in a month, officials said Monday. Army Pfc. Jason Dore, 25, was eight months into his first tour of… Read More
WASHINGTON – Beatrice Spencer Noyes, an author, artist and entrepreneur who was married to the longtime editor of the long-gone Washington Evening Star, died July 3 of a stroke at her home in Sorrento, Maine. She was 87. Noyes, better known as “Beppie,” wrote three… 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
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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
LEE – When Sgt. Joel House, 22, deployed to Iraq in November 2006, he worried he would never again see his aging 14-year-old dog, Seyda. On Monday afternoon, Seyda paced around the House family’s front lawn, sniffing a memorial the family erected to honor their… 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
WHITING – The man from Washington County who inspired a popular children’s book and whose efforts to receive a heart transplant never came to fruition, died Monday at a Boston hospital, according to his mother. Joshua Barker, 24, died around noon of kidney failure at… Read More
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