BOOTHBAY HARBOR – Stanley R. Tupper of Boothbay Harbor, who represented Maine in Congress from 1961 to 1967 and served in other local, state and federal posts, died Friday at age 84. Tupper died in a local hospital surrounded by his family, his widow, Jill… Read More
    WATERVILLE – Jamie Lue, a 2003 graduate of Colby College who starred on its soccer team, was murdered last week in Jamaica, the college reported Wednesday. Lue, 25, an investment analyst, was found shot to death Friday night in his sport utility vehicle. The motive… Read More
    WATERVILLE – Family and friends will gather at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College this afternoon to celebrate the life, warmth and generosity of Dorothy “Bibby” Alfond, who died here on New Year’s Eve at age 89. She was the wife of Dexter Shoe founder and philanthropist Harold Alfond. Read More
    WATERVILLE – Dorothy “Bibby” Alfond, wife of Dexter Shoe Co. founder and philanthropist Harold Alfond, died Saturday. She was 89. Friends and relatives described her as generous woman who supported her husband’s charitable work as well as contributing to causes in her own right as… Read More
    PORTLAND – Julius “Bud” Blake, the creator of the award-winning comic strip “Tiger” that appeared in hundreds of papers worldwide, died Dec. 26 at Maine Medical Center. He was 87. Blake created the strip “Tiger” in 1965 after quitting his job at a New York… Read More
    BOSTON – Howard Gotlieb, an archivist for Boston University who collected personal papers from an eclectic mix of contemporary authors, actors and politicians, died Thursday from complications after surgery. He was 79. Born in 1926 in Bangor, Maine, Gotlieb worked as a U.S. Army Signal… Read More
    BANGOR – Irving Kagan, a moving force in Maine’s health care industry and the world of competitive free-style skiing, leaves a legacy of community dedication that his closest friends believe will not be matched anytime soon. Kagan, who suffered from a heart condition, died Thursday… Read More
    ELLSWORTH – A well-known merchant whose family business has served as an anchor for the city’s downtown district died Tuesday at a Bangor hospital. Sheldon “Ted” Beal, proprietor of Beal’s Jewelry Store Inc., was 77. Friends remembered him as a longtime volunteer firefighter, a devoted… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – The city’s first woman councilor and longest serving council member died on Saturday, causing both local residents and the governor to stop and remember “the most determined woman” they could remember. B. Jean Harding, who served on the Presque Isle City Council… Read More
    Dr. Robert M. Smith, who led Husson’s graduate program in business for a quarter century, died Saturday after a short battle with esophageal cancer. Smith, a scholar in the fields of business, history and leadership, led the recent academic transition of Husson from a specialty business school to… Read More
    KENNEBUNKPORT – Kingsbury Browne Jr., an attorney and influential conservationist who spearheaded the founding of the Land Trust Alliance, died Nov. 11 from pneumonia at a nursing home. He was 82. Browne was regarded as a leader of the American land trust movement and was… Read More
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    ELLSWORTH – For a generation of theatergoers Skip Baker was the face and the voice of The Grand Auditorium. For the past 30 years, it was Baker who let them know what was playing each week, sold them their tickets and ran the projector for… Read More
    BANGOR – Elizabeth “Jeem” Trowbridge, who smuggled documents about the Nanking massacre out of China in 1938 so the world would know about the atrocities committed during the Japanese occupation, had a thirst for knowledge and a zest for life. That’s how friends remembered the… Read More
    VAN BUREN – The St. John Valley on Tuesday was mourning a woman who was passionate about her French heritage and religion, and a woman whose strong devotion and support of the University of Maine at Fort Kent saved it from oblivion 36 years ago. Read More
    FARMINGTON, Conn. – Actor and comedian Charles Rocket, who had roles in a variety of movies and TV series and briefly gained notoriety for uttering an obscenity on “Saturday Night Live,” committed suicide, the state medical examiner ruled. Rocket, 56, whose real name was Charles… Read More
    AUGUSTA – Austin Wilkins, who pioneered the development of the Maine Forest Service and led the fight against the devastating forest fires of 1947, died Oct. 2 at a nursing home. He was 102. The fires that scorched the landscape in Bar Harbor and southern… Read More
    PORTLAND – An 80-year-old former priest who was removed from the ministry due to accusations of sexually abusing minors in Maine has died in Lithuania, the Portland Diocese said Wednesday. Raymond Lauzon died on Monday following a brief illness. At Lauzon’s request, his funeral and… Read More
    DOVER-FOXCROFT – Whether he was peddling soda to raise funds for Homecoming or promoting the Boy Scouts, Howard Kesseli embodied community spirit. Kesseli, 74, who spent a lifetime trying to make his community a better place to live, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with… Read More
    PORTLAND – Helen W. Longley, wife of Maine’s first independent governor, died Tuesday following a brief illness, according to her son. She was 83. Born Helen Angela Walsh in Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. Longley died surrounded by family and friends at Mercy Hospital, where she had… Read More
    BATON ROUGE, La. – Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81. Brown, who had… Read More
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    SCARBOROUGH – E. Spencer Miller, who fought to maintain the independence of the Maine Central Railroad during his more than 25 years as its president, died at his home Aug. 12. He was in his late 90s. Miller, a native of Springfield, Vt., and a… Read More
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    LEVANT – Suzanne Smith never made it to a ceremony on Sunday afternoon during which the Levant Elementary School was renamed in her honor, but she knew before she died that the school would bear her name. Smith, who worked at the school for more… Read More
    PORTLAND- Dick Doyle, who covered high school sports for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram for 44 years, died Friday night. He was 86. Doyle retired as a fulltime sportswriter in 1984 but continued on a parttime basis until the early 1990s. The… Read More
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    PORTLAND – Dragon Cement and Concrete Products’ longtime president, Joseph M. Koch III, died Friday after a long battle with a brain tumor. For the past 12 years, Koch led the company through major changes, particularly the recent $50 million expansion of the company’s Thomaston… Read More
    OGUNQUIT – John Laurent, a prominent Maine painter known for his landscapes and seascapes, died April 14 at the age of 83. Laurent explored a broad range in his paintings, experimenting with both realism and abstraction. Some of his work focused on fly fishing, a… Read More
    MADAWASKA – Elmo Albert, Madawaska farmer, businessman and civil servant left a legacy of community service, hard work and friendship when he passed away Wednesday, 81 years to the day he was born in the town he called home all his life. Albert, 81, was… Read More
    LINCOLN – Sheila Tenggren was one of those newspaper people who never hesitated to let you know where she stood or where you were, either. That’s why local leaders uniformly expressed sadness Monday at news of the Lincoln News editor and publisher’s death Friday at… Read More
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    BAILEYVILLE – Frank “Doug” Jones, a retired restaurateur and paper mill electrician who served the town for 42 years as one of its council members, died of lung cancer early Tuesday morning at a Bangor hospital. Jones had been diagnosed with lung cancer less than… Read More
    BANGOR – Educator Wendell G. Eaton was remembered as a tireless advocate for learning who loved his community and was committed to making it better. Eaton, 86, died Thursday at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. He was associated with Bangor schools for three decades,… Read More
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Former U.S. Rep. Tillie Fowler, who became prominent on defense issues during her four terms in Congress, died Wednesday, two days after suffering a brain hemorrhage. She was 62. Fowler, who was known as the “Steel Magnolia” for her quiet tenacity in… Read More
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    LEWISTON – Georgette Berube, a Lewiston native who served 26 years in the Maine Legislature and ran unsuccessfully for governor, died Wednesday. The 77-year-old Berube served six of her legislative terms in the House of Representatives, from 1971 to 1982, then seven more in the… Read More
    PORTLAND – Ruth Farabee Clark will be remembered for singing and dancing onstage, and for her vivacious personality. For many, though, she’ll be best remembered for her efforts to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. Farabee Clark, who died Jan. 27 at 55, twice… Read More
    BRUNSWICK – Peter A. Garland, a lifelong public servant and one-term congressman, has died. He was 81. Garland, who died Wednesday at Mid Coast Hospital, served as the mayor of Saco in the 1950s before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Maine’s… Read More
    PORTLAND – L. Robert Porteous, a philanthropist, state lawmaker and entrepreneur whose family name was synonymous with retail, has died. He was 81. For years, the flagship Porteous, Mitchell and Braun department store was a destination on Congress Street. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
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    LEWISTON – Award-winning mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod, whose specialty was the “cozy” mystery, died Friday in a Lewiston nursing home. She was 82. MacLeod wrote more than 30 novels in which the protagonists were often amateur sleuths who stumbled upon their mysteries. Her books eschewed… Read More
    The Rev. Robert Sullivan, 92, a priest who counted his 23 years as chaplain at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and his 26 years as a teacher in Iraq among his most important accomplishments, died Jan. 9 at a Jesuit retreat center in Weston, Mass. Read More
    OLD TOWN – A former Old Town police chief who helped many officers get their start in law enforcement is remembered by those who knew him as a well-respected, caring individual. Dale Gauthier, 63, died last weekend after a battle with cancer that had spread… Read More
    PORTLAND – Edward Godfrey, founding dean of the University of Maine School of Law, former justice on Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court and an eminent figure in state and national legal circles, has died. He was 91. Godfrey, who died Wednesday, loved the law school he… Read More
    BAR HARBOR – College of the Atlantic graduate Rebecca Clark died doing what she loved most: studying the ocean and its creatures. Clark, 32, died in the catastrophic tsunami that struck a dozen Southeast Asia nations on Dec. 26, killing nearly 160,000 at last count… Read More
    PRESQUE ISLE – There was no one, friends decided Friday, quite like Lawrence “Tib” Thibodeau. The 89-year-old Presque Isle resident and potato industry leader passed away on Dec. 29 after having spent 60 years serving in an industry that he helped advance. Political leaders and… Read More
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    JONESPORT – Some people spend their lives doing what they love, and that was the way it was for Barna B. Norton. For 40 years, Norton ferried bird lovers from around the world to Machias Seal Island, 20 miles out to sea, to watch the… Read More
    BANGOR – Richard Burr Bronson Sr., a television pioneer who was instrumental in bringing the small screen to life in Bangor, died last Friday at the age of 84. Bronson started out in radio in 1941 in Massachusetts and moved to the Bangor area to… Read More
    GEORGETOWN – Peter W. Cox, a co-founder of Maine Times and an advocate for the state’s environment, died Thursday night after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 67. In addition to Maine Times, a statewide weekly whose introduction coincided with the birth of the… Read More
    DAMARISCOTTA – Ella Payne of Waldoboro, widow of former Maine Gov. and U.S. Sen. Frederick Payne, died Monday at a nursing home where she lived. She was 97. Payne was active in community affairs during the years her husband was in public office, as governor… Read More
    PORTLAND – Former Maine first lady Cora Reed, who suffered a stroke 10 days ago, died Sunday in a Washington, D.C., hospice. Reed, who was 84, was the wife of former Gov. John Reed, who occupied the Blaine House from 1959 to 1967. He later… Read More
    ORONO – The men that make up Three Mo’ Tenors sang it all on Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts’ opening gala. Ramone Diggs, Kenneth Gayle and Marvin Scott easily moved from Broadway to Motown to gospel to opera and back during… Read More
    HOULTON – Hundreds of former colleagues, students and friends said goodbye this week to a longtime educator and friend. Elwood Scott, 77, a former Houlton teacher and administrator, died Sept. 2 after a long illness. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
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    AUGUSTA – Kenneth Allen, a former State House aide, died Thursday in an Augusta hospital. He was 53. Allen graduated from the University of Maine and for years worked at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
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    ORANGE, Calif. – Former University of Maine President Paul H. Silverman, 79, died Thursday night at the University of California-Irvine Medical Center from complications of a bone marrow transplant. A native of Minneapolis, Minn., Silverman served as UMaine’s 13th president, from Aug. 1980 to March… Read More
    BANGOR – Nick Smith struck out 11 batters and gave up seven hits in seven innings to lead Holbrook by Brewer 3-1 in the District 3 baseball all-star tourney for ages 13-14 at Mansfield Stadium Saturday. Nick Smith also had two singles and an RBI… Read More
    CAPE ELIZABETH – Raymond J. Blair, a retired newsman and public relations executive, died June 27 at Maine Medical Center. He was 85. Blair was diagnosed two years ago with a bone marrow disease and had taken a turn for the worse in recent weeks. Read More
    PORTLAND – Mike McCardell, whose conservative-minded phone calls to a popular radio talk show prompted management to recruit him as a broadcaster, died while visiting family in Pennsylvania. McCardell, co-host of the “WGAN Morning News with Mike and Ken,” died Friday evening of an apparent… Read More
    AUBURN – Lisa Giguere, a longtime reporter and editor for the Sun Journal of Lewiston, died Tuesday after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. She was 52. Giguere, a University of Maine graduate, began her career in 1974 as a reporter with the Lewiston Evening… Read More
    GRAY – Warren Cole, former owner of the Cole Farms Restaurant who went to prison after admitting molesting more than a dozen boys, has died in Skowhegan. He was 87. No cause was given. In 1992, Cole was sentenced to six years in prison after… Read More
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