Here’s a quick little trivia quiz. In what year was the first joint Lewiston-Auburn Fourth of July celebration held? It was 1948, and it was a big event with an intercity all-star baseball game in the morning at Walton Field in Auburn, and a fireworks display at the Maine State Fairgrounds in Lewiston. The display […]
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Local dairy farm shuts its barn doors
NORWAY — Where have all the cows gone? That’s what some local residents may wonder as they pass by the mostly vacant fields at Kuvaja Farm at 38 Kuvaja Road, off Richardson Hollow Road in Norway. Marie Kuvaja and two of her sons, Fred and Stanley Kuvaja, sold their 48 cows, which means the farm […]
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Auburn officials mull changes to garage sale permitting
AUBURN — City officials met informally with residents Tuesday evening to discuss proposed changes to the way the city deals with yard sales and agricultural barn sales. It was a scantly attended meeting, made up of only of Eric Cousens, Auburn’s deputy director of planning and development, City Councilor Belinda Gerry and the few residents […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills
A life preserved in pictures: Nettie Cummings Maxim
More than a century ago, a Bethel farm girl who rarely traveled more than a few miles from her home acquired a camera, found her artistic calling and created an exceptional body of work. Her photography survives today as a testament to her creativity and talent and as an invaluable historic record of her life […]
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Feds allege sexual harassment at Maine farm
PORTLAND (AP) — The federal government has sued a Maine farm alleging that it allowed male workers to sexually harass women hired as seasonal harvesters. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in its lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland that female employees at County Fair Farm in Jefferson were subjected to […]
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Fatal hayride operator’s recycling company frequently cited for truck-safety violations
CITATIONS: Read the Re-Harvest Driver Vehicle Examination reports LEWISTON — A company that’s part of the same corporate structure as Harvest Hill Farms has a lengthy record of citations for vehicle-safety violations, according to public records obtained by the Sun Journal. According to a Maine State Police supervisor, the company’s safety rating is among the worst […]
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Time stands still in an Auburn cornfield
I can look from our living room window and see a fine field of corn, nearly ready for the harvesting vehicles to cut it and transport it to the neighbor’s farm, where it will feed dairy cattle in the winter. The view is pretty close to what I saw about 60 years ago from that […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Life on a rural Maine farm remembered in Edith McCleery’s memoirs
FARMINGTON — The children of Edith McCleery have published the memories and stories of her early life on a New Portland farm and are ready to share them. A book signing and celebration for “Memoirs of New Portland Hill, An Autobiography” by Edith Edwards McCleery will take place at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at […]