Rhode Island malls ignore Sunday sale law crowds surge
Warwick Mall Midland Mall and Lincoln Mall defied Sunday sale restrictions with heavy crowds over the weekend. Co owner Louis Bliss said the Warwick Mall saw 40 of 50 stores open and traffic comparable to pre Christmas sales. Mass and Conn plates were common. Other retailers including Ann and Hope Apex Montecello s and many downtown Pawtucket stores were open with no sale restrictions on items.
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Ann and Hope
Apex
Montecello’s
Providence
Pawtucket
Christmas Shopping Boosts Main Street Parking Ease
Shoppers enjoy convenient Main Street parking during the Christmas season with easy access to retailers. Local merchants note steady foot traffic and renewed interest in holiday purchases as streets stay busy through the season.
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Apollonio Says He'll Stay Until Position Filled
In Augusta Maine Governor Longley says Marine Resources Commissioner Spencer Apollonio will remain in place until a successor is confirmed. Apollonio and Longley plan further talks as the state navigates a confirmation battle and agency continuity.
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Augusta
Maine
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Kenneth Curtis
Executive Council
Charles Wyman
Boothbay Harbor
Holiday Extended For State Offices
Governor James B Longley announced a four day weekend with state offices closed Friday December 26 to allow employees time with families. Emergency services will continue. January 2 1976 will be a regular work day.
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Maine
James B. Longley
Longley
Auburn Man Held In Wife's Death
In Lewiston Maine 26 year old Robert L Bruneau was to be arraigned on a murder charge for the death of his estranged wife Elizabeth 25 found shot to death at their Auburn home Saturday Bruneau turned himself in Sunday morning about two hours after police found her body Police said Elizabeth Bruneau called for help saying her husband had a gun before the line went dead and officers arrived to find her shot twice once in the head and once in the back
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Hall High School
West Hartford
Hanoi
Rescue of Lucky Bald Eagle by Maine Wardens
Maine game warden Ernest Smith saved a bald eagle named Lucky after ice formed on its wings while diving for fish in the Machias River. A flock of crows was driven off as Smith and others dried the bird at the Washington County sheriff's office before transfer to the University of Maine for examination and banding. Deputy Wardens Robert Carter and Dale Clemmons assisted at Machias.
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Ernest Smith
Machias
Smith
Washington County
University of Maine
Biological Laboratory
Robert Carter
Marshfield
Dale Clemmons
UPI
Prize Winning Playwright Thornton Wilder Dies in Sleep
Thornton Wilder a Pulitzer prize winning playwright and novelist dies at 78 in Hamden Connecticut after heart attack while sleeping at home with sister Isabel. He wrote Our Town Hello Dolly The Skin of Our Teeth and The Bridge of San Luis Rey earning three Pulitzers and later the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Burial will be private and memorial service announced later.
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Amos Niven Wilder
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Harvard
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Brattleboro
Janet Wilder Dankin
Amherst
Mass
Katharine Dix Wilder
New Haven
Thornton Niven Wilder
Madison
Wisc
Amos
Lottery Winner Sued Over Winnings in Massachusetts
A Claremont New Hampshire man who won 11000 in a Massachusetts lottery was sued by Sheila Percy of Weymouth claiming to be his former wife. The case in District Court involves divorce papers served at the courthouse and a demand to account for winnings. Percy’s attorney says he spent most of the lottery money and the judge ordered accounting next Wednesday and sale of a new car bought with part of the winnings.
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Mass
Claremont
N.H
Cogent
Sheila Percy
Weymouth
Steven Percy
Percy
Nathan Sherman
Robert E. Sheiber
Welfare Department
Robert E. Shannon
Susan Saxe to Appear In Court on 1970 Slaying Charges
Susan Saxe, 26, scheduled for a pretrial hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court on charges of killing a Boston policeman in 1970. The former Brandeis student, once on the FBI’s most wanted list, is held in Worcester County jail after pleaing guilty to federal bank robbery and theft charges.
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Worcester
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State Street
Walter Schroeder
Newburyport
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