Obituary: Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul
AUGUSTA - Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul died on April 9, 2021 at her home in Augusta at the age of 69 .
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Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul
AUGUSTA – Kathleen Melanie (Littlefield) Sproul died on April 9, 2021 at her home in Augusta at the age of 69 years old. She died after a 10-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disease of which there is no cure and little is known.
Born on June 24, 1951, Kathy was the second child born to Dexter Parker Littlefield and Patricia M. (O’Grady) Littlefield in Worcester, Mass. They moved to Belfast when Kathy was still quite young. She attended Belfast public schools, graduating from Belfast Area High School in 1969. In high school, Kathy sang in chorus, participated in school plays and American Field Service. She later attended Beal Business College in Bangor.
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Family, city workers hope to raise awareness of disease that took Augusta woman’s life
Kathy Sproul, who died April 9 at age 69, insisted her brain be donated to research to help find a cure or treatment for progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Bethany Sproul LeBrun with her son, Nolan, 4, and daughter, Maya, 8, outside her workplace at the Buker Center recently in Augusta.
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AUGUSTA About three years ago, Kathy Sproul was diagnosed with a rare, terminal neurological disease progressive supranuclear palsy that has no cure and progressively takes away the patient’s abilities to function.
Augusta shutting down entire child care program until Dec. 28
A staff member tested positive for COVID-19 after a partial closure of the program, prompting the city to send the remaining 45 children in the program home.
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AUGUSTA The city is shutting down its entire child care program just days after it was partially closed after an additional worker there tested positive for COVID-19.
This week the city had already shut down part of the program, and sent 11 children and three staff members home who were in one cohort with a child who tested positive for COVID-19.
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On Wednesday morning, a staff member whose work was not limited to just that one classroom group tested positive, forcing about a half-dozen workers who were in contact with them to go into quarantine. That also prompted city officials to decide to close the entire program until Dec. 28.