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PublishedMarch 31, 2020
Thomas Dyro, a mainstay of Portland’s recovery community, dies at age 70
Mr. Dyro got sober in 2002 and became active in several recovery programs.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2020
Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer dies at 98
Dwyer was the second woman ever to win a principal chair in a major U.S. orchestra.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2020
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon in 1971, dies at age 88
Once his crewmates were back on board and headed home after testing a lunar rover, Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk – nearly 200,000 miles from Earth.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2020
Native American journalist, activist Chuck Trimble dies at 84
Trimble founded the American Indian Press Association in the 1970s, citing a lack of coverage of Native American issues.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2019
Clayton Grover, who worked at Bath Iron Works for 67 years, dies at 87
The Newcastle man began at the shipyard as a 19-year-old in 1952, leaving to serve in the Army in the Korean War for 2 years before returning to work at BIW until his death this month.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2019
Craig Wilson, greenskeeper at Nonesuch River Golf Course, dies at 72
The Scarborough man, a former dispatcher for Maine Central Railroad and captain for the Blackpoint Hose Company, is remembered fondly by his family.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2019
Bella Tovey, who bore witness to Holocaust, dies at 92
She survived Nazi labor and concentration camps as a Jewish teenager in Poland, living to tell her story to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2019
Betsy Parsons, 65, English teacher in Portland who advocated for LGBTQ youths
She helped found GLSEN Southern Maine and was instrumental in creating about 90 gay-straight alliance groups in high schools across Maine.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2019
David Moran, owner of Sorella’s Bakehouse and an ‘unsung hero’ of Portland’s food scene
At the height of his career, he made bread for an estimated 200 to 300 businesses at the East Bayside bakery.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2019
Peter Moore III, a master craftsman of Native American arts, dies at 65
He is best known for intricate carvings that depict images of wildlife, including a prayer staff presented to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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