Leeds
Teen suffers broken bone; police look for hit-and-run driver
LEEDS — A 13-year-old girl was recovering Tuesday from a broken bone in her shoulder as police searched for the driver whose car hit her and left the scene at 443 Church Hill Road. Katelyn Hair was shoveling snow away from her family’s mailbox at about 4:15 p.m. Monday when she was hit by a […]
Teen struck by hit-and-run driver
LEEDS — A 13-year-old girl shoveling snow on Church Hill Road on Monday was hit by a car and the driver took off, police said. The Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the hit-and-run accident that occurred around 4:15 p.m. The girl was shoveling snow away from her family’s mailbox when she was struck by […]
Parents upset local schools don’t close for storm
LEWISTON — While dozens of southern and western Maine schools canceled classes during Monday’s snowstorm, at least four area school systems did not, causing thousands of children in Lewiston, Auburn, Poland and Turner to slog through the snow, raising the ire of their parents. “What bothered me was when a normal 15-minute ride to school, […]
R. Mitchell: Take control of financial security
People have traditionally been able to rely on Social Security to fund their retirement. The future of Social Security seems less certain all the time and folks need to invest to ensure their ability to retire. I know, investing seems riskier now, due to the recent recession, but the average return for any 65-year period […]
‘Still the one’: Leeds couple endures, wins Vegas trip
LEEDS — Mike and Anna Cyr had two gravely ill children who weren’t expected to survive past childhood, but they made it. The couple marvel a bit that they made it, too. In 29 years, they’ve had only three weekends away, just the two of them, including their honeymoon. The last time, 12 years ago, […]
In Maine, no real deterrent for poaching
The Maine Warden Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the Pennsylvania Game Commission conducted an intensive four-month investigation into poaching activities in Maine and Pennsylvania in the fall of 2010, resulting in criminal charges filed against six people. During the course of that investigation, officers documented as many as 400 crimes committed in […]
Turner man to serve no jail time in poaching case
AUBURN — Everett H. “Lenny” Leonard, 61, of Turner, will serve no jail time in Maine. Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy suspended sentences Wednesday that would have jailed the former Mechanic Falls police chief for two counts of driving deer and one count of furnishing drugs. A September plea deal called for Leonard to serve […]
Robert ‘Bob’ Littlefield
SOUTH PARIS — Robert “Bob” Dodge Littlefield, 85, of Paris, passed away peacefully on Nov. 22, at the Maine Veterans’ Home, following a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Bob was born in Lynn, Mass., Sept. 25, 1927, the son of Frank and Thelma Littlefield. He graduated from Lynn English High School and worked at Highmoor […]
S. Touchette: Put an end to this now
I do not think that the public should be voting on the same-sex marriage issue again. Most of the people believe the Bible is word of God, but then they believe that word only when it suits them. It is stated in Psalms 24:3-5, “Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who […]