Inspired by his fatherâs WWII experience, Belfast stonemason repairs Maine POW/MIA memorialÂ
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BELFAST, Maine (Tribune News Service) â Belfast mason Dan Ladd didn t think twice about volunteering his time to fix a century-old concrete monument on the east side of Belfast that will be rededicated this week to prisoners of war and those who are missing in action.
That s because his father, a radio gunner in the Army Air Corps in World War II, spent a year and a half in a German POW camp after his B-17 was shot out of the sky.
In 1945, as the war was winding down, Tech Sergeant John Henry Ladd was liberated by the United States Army. After more than a year of hunger and privation, the 21-year-old came home bone thin â but he came home.
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Maine DOT plans include nearly $26M for local projects in 2021
By Carolyn Zachary | Feb 01, 2021
Source: Maine Dept. of Transportation website
Augusta The Maine Department of Transportation has released its three-year transportation infrastructure work plan. Published annually, the plan outlines the department s strategy for road, bridge and other transportation upgrades and maintenance projects.
The three-year plan covers approximately $2.71 billion worth of construction and maintenance. In Waldo County, estimated funding needed for planned projects this year totals $25,871,070. The largest individual projects include:
Reconstruction of 1.85 miles of Route 1 in Searsport, $10.5 million.
Dredging the channel in Searsport, the county’s deepwater port, $5.5 million.
Belfast art exhibit: Our Town and Times in the Editorial Cartoons of Douglas Coffin Wed, 01/27/2021 - 4:00pm
Douglas Coffin work from the early 2000 s on the topic of a new footbridge for Belfast. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
Douglas Coffin work from the early 2000 s on the topic of a new footbridge for Belfast. (Photo courtesy Belfast Free Library)
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BELFAST From February 2 to March 31, 2021, the Kramer Gallery at the Belfast Free Library will host an exhibit of the editorial cartoons of Douglas Coffin. Coffin’s single-panel, black-and-white cartoons were a popular feature of the upstart Waldo Independent a Belfast-based weekly newspaper that from 1985 to 2008 provided lively competition to the deep-rooted Republican Journal, offering an alternative perspective on