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Music as Medicine: Lewiston artist battles psychosis, muscle palsy with ukulele
LEWISTON, Maine (WABI) - May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Maine Tracking Network reported almost 3 thousand Mainers were diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2023. Lyme Disease is spread through blacklegged tick bites. Per the CDC, undiagnosed Lyme disease can spread to and affect the joints, heart, and nervous system.
Sebago boater assaulted person, flashed officers, tried to take off, police say
PORTLAND, Maine — A boater from Sebago was arrested Monday after police said he assaulted a person at the Portland Fish Pier, flashed officers who tried to talk to him then tried to take off. Stephen Thuotte, 62, faces a host of charges. Police said officers were called to...
Second man charged with manslaughter in Turner crash that killed grandmother acquitted
AUBURN, Maine — A second driver charged with manslaughter in the death of a Fayette grandmother following a deadly crash in Turner in 2022 has been acquitted by a jury in Auburn. After deliberating for an hour and a half Tuesday, a jury in Androscoggin County Superior Court came...
Maine Wildlife Park set to reopen after storm damage delays start of season
GRAY (WGME) -- The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray is gearing up to open for the season on Monday. The park usually opens during April school vacation, but the date had to be pushed back this year because of storm damage. Heavy snow and winds knocked trees onto animal enclosures...
Public invited to check out young artists’ works
A wide variety of art created by students in grades K-12 in SAD 61 will be on display at the annual Lake Region Art Show set for Wednesday, May 22 and Thursday, May 23 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Lake Region High School gymnasium. The show will include...
In Ye Olden Times: The Northern Lights
Some skies we’ve had this past week, eh? Certainly, one for the record books — more auroras sporting in the skies over Bridgton, and indeed all of Maine, than I’ve seen in my lifetime. Not since I was a boy have I seen anything even approaching the grand display of Northern Lights that we were treated to last Saturday night, and I hear spectral traces of these lights continued to show up here and there across the state in the nights afterward. Down to Standish, over 100 people gathered at the boat launch to take in the green and purple fires hanging over Sebago, and some of the pictures coming out of Portland and the islands of Casco Bay are truly stunning.
She’s an acclaimed opera singer—and her Maine tattoo is a beauty
PORTLAND, Maine — Abi Levis, a native of South Portland who as a youngster sang Irish ballads with her father and Patsy Cline songs at county fairs in Maine, received her first instruction in classical music at the age of fifteen. She got hooked after reading “Opera for Dummies.”
Risen from the ashes: 20 years since a Maine church burned
STANDISH, Maine — Wednesday marks 20 years since a historic church in Standish was destroyed by fire. On the evening of Saturday, May 15, 2004, lightning struck the bell tower of the Standish Congregational Church on Oak Hill Road, sparking a fire that ultimately destroyed the 150-year-old church. Investigators believed the fire went unnoticed for nearly an hour after the strike.
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