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Geraldine “Gerry” Ford Jacques, of Palm Coast, Fla., died peacefully in her home on Jan. 7, 2024, after a brief decline in her health at the age of 93.

Terry L. Ways Terry Lee Ways, 78, of Martinsburg, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 in Charles Town WV.

Thursday, June 24, 2021 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24, from 6 - 8 p.m. Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently, according to the Conservancy, in a news release. The idea isn’t new — interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a ...

Ali Stevenson, Midcoast Conservancy Fri, 05/07/2021 - 7:15am Midcoast Conservancy and co-sponsor Strong-Hancock Funeral Home will host an online panel discussion of Green Burial and Conservation Cemeteries on Thursday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m. Green burial has sparked an interest among land conservation circles in Maine recently. The idea isn’t new — interment without concrete vaults, embalming, or unrecyclable components was the way all burials were conducted until a few generations ago. What is new is that land trusts are thinking of green cemeteries as a way of conserving lan...

The top of Baldwin Hill in Fayette looks like hundreds, probably thousands, of similar hills across Maine. Ancient stone walls crisscross through second-growth stands of trees, the thick forest beneath tall pines is littered with blowdowns and a carpet of dead leaves.  A new gravel road that winds for nearly half a mile up the hill from Fayette Corner Road and a parking area and gravel path that winds around a grove of pines at the summit are the only signs anything is going on there. A clearcut at the edge of the summit offers a view of hills and farms to the east.