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Parking, restrooms needed with crowds expected at new Columbian Park Crowds are expected at Columbian Park when improvements are completed this year. And officials want to make sure those people have places to park and even use the restroom. Posted: Feb 17, 2021 3:23 PM Updated: Feb 17, 2021 4:00 PM Posted By: Joseph Paul LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Crowds are expected at Columbian Park when improvements are completed this year. And officials want to make sure those people have places to park...

There’s always a notable stretch in the evenings when the anniversary of Bertie Fisher rolls around. Last Thursday week marked twenty years since the death of the rallying legend who enthralled the masses that lined the ditches, fields and side roads all over. During a 32-year career – his first event was as a navigator the Erne Safari Rally – the sporting icon notched up 43 victories. His titanic tussles with Austin McHale have become the stuff of rally folklore. On Sunday, January 21st,...

Raymond (Ray) L. Wallace. OWLS HEAD — Raymond (Ray) L. Wallace, 78, passed peacefully into his Heavenly Home, Friday, December 18, 2020, after an extended battle with Alzheimer’s disease, at Windward Gardens in Camden. Born in Rockland, December 18, 1942, he was the only child of Leland and Emma Maloney Wallace. Ray began school in a one room schoolhouse in Montville Maine and later graduated from Rockland High School, class of 1961. On May 25, 1963, Ray married Alice Cole. Together they r...

Edith D. Dondis. Edith D. Dondis. ROCKLAND — Edith D. Dondis, age 100, passed away peacefully in her family home on December 21, 2020. Edith, one of nine children, was born to James and Ida Pollock Dondis on June 13, 1920. Edith was a pillar of strength and has always lived her life as a strong, independent woman, even at a time when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. As a young woman Edie served our country in WWII as the first enlisted Rockland girl in the Waves. Edith went on to study reta...

 - December 14, 2020, 3:55 PM With a milestone looming in the revision cycle for the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) standard 409, which deals with aircraft hangars, NATA last week held a webinar to answer industry questions on the topic. According to NFPA’s original five-year revision timeline, the second draft meeting to consider the latest changes to 409 was supposed to have taken place in April of this year, but due to Covid restrictions, it was postponed. The meeting...