Obituary: Guy J. “Joe” Williams
SKOWHEGAN - Mr. Guy J. Joe Williams died peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, at Maine General Hospital in Augusta on .
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Guy J. “Joe” Williams
SKOWHEGAN – Mr. Guy J. “Joe” Williams died peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, at Maine General Hospital in Augusta on April 13, 2021 at the age of 82.
Joe was born on Oct. 19, 1938 in Fort Fairfield, Maine to Guy J. and Pauline (Deschaines) Williams. His father died in 1940, and his mother moved her seven children to be near family in Waterville in 1945. Joe graduated from Waterville High School in 1957. He served in the Army from 1957 to 1961 and was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. As part of this assignment he played for the USASA Big Blue Basketball team, travelling around bases in Italy, Germany and France to play in tournaments. He remembered fondly the trip he took with friends to see the Olympics in Rome in 1960. During the off-season, he served as the manager
The buyers of a vintage bed-and-breakfast with plenty of history are looking forward to doing a period renovation and likely reopening it as an inn in a couple of years.
Paul and Paula Saunders bought the Colony House at 68 Beach Road in Madison from Robert Thompson and family for $570,000. John I. McCarthy of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Real Estate represented both buyer and seller in the transaction. McCarthy also acknowledged Donna Mills Stevens at Skowhegan Savings Bank, Rebecca Cayford Esq. and Corson & Blaisdell P.A. in the deal.
The shingle-sided structure was custom designed and built in 1929 as a summer home for Broadway playwright John Bard Hymer, on the western shore of Lake Wesserunsett in Somerset County. Features include hardwood floors, working fireplaces and a spiral staircase. The main house has six bedrooms, five bathrooms and a sunroom overlooking the lake. The property also has an adjacent four-bedroom cabin that sleeps eight.
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Somerset SnowFest starts off Sunday with fishing derby, cross-country skiing, scavenger hunt
The week-long celebration spins off Main Street Skowhegan s Somerset Outdoors program that encourages people to get outside and beat the blahs of the pandemic.
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Kelsey Hilton rides Acadia as she pulls skier Charlie Simpson around the final corner and over the last jump during a February 2019 skijoring competition at Eaton Mountain during Somerset SnowFest in Skowhegan.
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SKOWHEGAN Somerset SnowFest is on this year, with outdoor activities scheduled throughout the week and organized so that people may participate safely despite the pandemic. The way spectators view race events, however, will be different.
Fishing derby in Canaan kicks off weeklong Somerset SnowFest
SnowFest includes a series of activities, including the only equestrian skijoring race in the Northeast which involves a horse and rider pulling a snowboarder or an Alpine skier down a 1,000-foot track of gates and jumps.
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Justin Spencer, resources manager for Lake George Regional Park, stands by a fish display board Sunday on the east side of the park in Canaan where the Somerset SnowFest was held. Amy Calder/Morning Sentinel
CANAAN Les Perry and his son, Brian, stood Sunday on the snow-covered ice at Lake George for the Somerset SnowFest Fishing Derby, hoping to catch landlocked salmon, trout, bass or perch.