Ten-year-old Lauren Elliott captures your attention with the unique features of her rare genetic disorder, Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome. But she captures your heart with her warm smile and energetic spirit. This happy little girl lives with her parents, Rob and Heidi, in Strong where she attends public elementary school, and goes on a lot of family […]
When you first meet Lacey Thomsen, her smile is the first thing that captures your attention. Then you quickly notice her hands. Her slender, nimble fingers are constantly in motion, expressing her thoughts in a very different way than the rest of us. One of her favorite signs: she places her thumb briefly between her […]
For Kelsey Klibansky, of Beverly, MA, spending time outdoors is simply a way of life. An avid skier, Kelsey also loves to go whitewater rafting, canoeing, camping and fly fishing. She’s been rafting on Maine rivers since she was about 10 and became a rafting guide in 2008. Shortly after, she began working at Three […]
It had been a peaceful visit with friends on idyllic Matinicus, an island about 20 miles off the coast at the entrance of Penobscot Bay. Waterville resident KC Ford was on her way back to the mainland when the small plane she was on suddenly lost power and crashed into the cold Atlantic. All four […]
Young Johnathan Ramage was playing outside with his toy trucks while his father worked. As he went to find a different toy, he ran into the tailgate of his father’s truck, whacking his head on the sharp corner. A few minutes later Johnathan threw up multiple times and began acting very lethargic. His father, a […]
John Stevens, of Brooklin, has been pulling lobster traps for the last 18 years. One morning in July, while he was working on the boat several miles off shore, he began having chest pains. When the pain began to travel down his arm he knew he was having a heart attack. He called a fellow […]
You never know what life has in store for you from day to day, and nowhere was that more obvious than in the small coastal town of Bar Harbor one day last fall. As the afternoon unfolded, the Bar Harbor Fire Department found itself responding to four different calls, two of which were critical cardiac […]
Teenager Henry Stoddard comes from a long line of skiers. He’s been on skis since he was four, frequenting Mt. Abram, Shawnee and Saddleback with his family and with school teams. During February vacation last year he was on the trails at Saddleback with some friends when he caught the top of a ski and […]
There are a handful of LifeFlight calls each year in which the patient is so critically ill, the crew must bring to the table every piece of equipment, all the newest technology and the vast majority of their training and experience. This call to Northern Maine Medical Center in the fall of 2012 to help […]
You might say Frank Anastasio believes in fate. Or maybe luck. However you want to look at it, everything just seemed to fall into place for Frank in the fall of 2012. Frank was born and raised in Rumford. He grew up in the same neighborhood where he lives now, hanging out with friends that […]