The civil rights leader’s arrest at a Virginia bus station helped light a fire that tore down Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
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Paul Betit, former Portland Press Herald sports writer, dies at 73
Betit, who lived in Brunswick, worked as a journalist for four decades and wrote novels based on his experiences in the Vietnam War.
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Joe Bornstein, Maine’s best-known accident injury lawyer, dies at 74
He built a prominent law firm that specializes in personal injury cases and became famous for his ‘CALL JOE’ sign atop Portland’s Time & Temperature Building.
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John Neuts, 29, skilled boatsman and champion snowmobile racer
‘He loved anything that had four wheels,’ his father recalled.
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Christopher Gillies, 65, retired senior master sergeant in Air National Guard
During his 38-year career, he was deployed to the Middle East 3 times.
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Rosaline Sanford, 92, longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center
She lived in Freeport for most of her life and graduated from Maine General Hospital School of Nursing in 1949.
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Elizabeth ‘Ibby’ Conroy, nurse at former Arnie Hanson Center, dies at 81
From 1986 to 2001, she was a nurse at the Arnie Hansen Center on India Street in Portland, now the home of the Milestone Foundation.
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Keith Savage, former probation and parole officer in Portland, dies at 80
He grew up in Portland and attended Deering High, leaving school at 17 to join the Army and serve 2 tours during the Vietnam War.
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Gerard Menard, 94, longtime postal worker in Brunswick
Mr. Menard spent much of his time designing and building stage sets for school, college and church productions.
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Brian Aromando, dedicated family man with passion for surfing, dies at 57
Mr. Aromando, who was killed in a motorcycle accident July 18, was memorialized by the surfing community when 125 people from throughout southern Maine paddled out to the Rivermouth break in Ogunquit.