Joseph Michael Gallo
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Joseph Michael Gallo, 31, appeared in 8th District Court on Monday by videoconference to plead guilty to four felonies, two of them from an Aug. 27 chase and two from a chase in a stolen pickup truck on Oct. 10.
In that case, Gallo drove off in a pickup truck parked at Lepage Bakery by a worker who left his keys in the truck.
Police pursued the truck that sped up to 25 mph over the posted limit.
He abandoned the truck on Bartlett Street and fled on foot, but was caught by police, who recovered from the truck a hypodermic needle with liquid in it, a bag of methamphetamine and a sedative for which he had no prescription.
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A power pole is downed early Friday afternoon at Pleasant Street and East Avenue in Lewiston. According to witnesses at the scene, the male driver and a passenger were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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LEWISTON Traffic on East Avenue was snarled for hours Friday after a car struck a CMP pole, bringing wires and traffic lights into the street.
Police said James Knights, 31, of Lewiston, was driving at East Avenue and Pleasant Street about 12:30 p.m. when an apparent mechanical failure caused his car to strike the pole.
A passenger, Cynthia Knights, suffered a minor injury and was taken to Central Maine Medical Center to be evaluated.
Portsmouth Herald
Feb. 24 – To the Editor:
My grandparents emigrated to Portsmouth in 1900. My grandmother, Julia Brennan, was from Ireland and my grandfather, Joseph Martineau, was from Princeville, Quebec. They met here in Portsmouth, were married at the Immaculate Conception Church. For their honeymoon, they took the train from Portsmouth train station up country through Island Pond, Vermont, and on into Quebec. On their return, they moved into their new home at 64 Pine Street in the infamous Creek Neighborhood. The Creek (pronounced “Crick”) was about 90% Irish Catholic and a few of them weren t happy to have a mixed marriage such as my grandparents in the neighborhood. My grandmother gave birth to their four children in their home.
They were immigrants. And cousins. And both called Charles. Big handsome, hairy men from the southern plains of Germany. In 1848 they sailed for the new world and landed in New York. One of the cousins had borrowed money from his father. The other used his training as a confectioner to propel them into the exciting new world of chemicals. Their newly adopted nation of America lagged well behind Germany in the field of medicine and both men saw a very 19th century thing on the horizon: a hole in the market.
In 1848 the two stood on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street in Brooklyn and watched the last red bricks being laid for their imposing new factory. With a final flourish the company name was carefully painted above both the entrance and exit of the building. Fortunately for the cousins they shared a surname so the new company could be named after both of them. It was called Pfizer.
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