Breakfast for unhoused A free breakfast for unhoused people has been rescheduled for 8 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 24, at First Baptist Church in Westbrook, 733 Main St. The church is hosting the meal and wants to hear from participants what they’d like to see for a shelter. The breakfast had been scheduled for Dec. […]
Maine veterans
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Buxton Notes: Dec. 22
Remembering the fallen A good turnout bundled up for the Dec. 17 Wreaths Across America ceremony at South Buxton Cemetery amid the chill and mix of snow and drizzle. The hour-long observance with patriotic music was hosted by the cemetery association. Before the ceremony, volunteers placed 440 wreaths on gravestones of veterans. Featured speaker […]
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Wreath ceremonies to remember veterans in Buxton, Westbrook cemeteries
South Buxton Cemetery and Westbrook’s Woodlawn Cemetery will participate in the Wreaths Across America honor for veterans on Saturday, Dec. 17.
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Full military burial honors for Westbrook’s Blanche Kelley
A burial service was held Monday for the decorated veteran who was a chauffeur at the Pentagon in the 1950s.
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Brunswick Veterans Day event honors those who served, while highlighting struggles
Sen. Angus King and local military veterans honored members of the armed services in Brunswick Friday morning during an event that also highlighted the group’s high rates of mental illness.
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On a submarine, he learned to listen to – and get along with – people very different than himself
Jacob Rideout, now a firefighter in Scarborough, says he often draws on the skills he learned in the U.S. Navy and applies them in civilian life.
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`We had a mission to do, we did the mission, and we came home’
An oral history will preserve the memories of 9 Maine veterans for posterity.
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Amateur genealogists memorialize World War II soldiers
Maine volunteers have joined a national effort to research and write obituaries for the more than 400,000 Americans who died in World War II.
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Scarborough veteran’s wife earns VA certification as caregiver
Sally Nason of Scarborough is the first member of Vet to Vet Maine to receive the certification, which compensates her for some of her time.
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Litchfield’s oldest resident, who fought in World War II, plans a 100-yard-dash for his 100th birthday
Eugene Thompson, 99, was recently awarded the town’s Boston Post Cane and in less than a year, plans to celebrate his 100th birthday by running a 100-yard-dash.