Paige Richard of Leeds presented the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society on March 16 with the donations from her 10th birthday. Richard, a fourth-grade student at Leeds Central School, asked for donations for the pets in lieu of birthday gifts, and guests generously donated pet food, treats and cleaning supplies to help with the care of […]
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Lyme Disease to be topic of education, awareness event
LEEDS — Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education will host a Lyme Disease Awareness and Education event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at the Leeds Central School, 1185 Route 106. Dr Beatrice Szantyr of MaineLyme will join them and share her community Tick Talk. The event is free and open to […]
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Rural Community Action Ministry seeks volunteers
LEEDS — Rural Community Action Ministry, a nonprofit agency in Leeds, is seeking individuals who want to make a short- or long-term commitment to become a volunteer for RCAM. Volunteering opportunities are available in all of the RCAM’s service areas, which include the following towns: Buckfield, Canton, Greene, Hartford, Leeds, Litchfield, Livermore, Livermore Falls, Monmouth, […]
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The Leeds Historical Society asks 'what’s that thingamajig?'
LEEDS — The Leeds Historical Society, along with Lew Alessio, will present an afternoon of mysterious and amusing antiques on Sunday, March 26. People are asked to bring along items that old-timers would easily recognize, but which today’s generations might look at and say, “What in tarnation IS that?” Alessio will help the group guess […]
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SAD 52 announces pre-K, kindergarten registration
TURNER — School Administrative District 52 has announced informational meetings on registration for prekindergarten and kindergarten students: * March 6, Leeds Central School, 6 p.m. * March 8, Turner Primary School, 6 p.m. * March 9, Greene Central School, 6 p.m. You do not have to be a resident of a town to attend that […]
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Voters in Turner, Leeds, Greene pass school budget
TURNER — The School Administrative District 52 budget passed in Turner, Leeds and Greene on Tuesday by a total of 34 votes. The tally was 135-101. In Turner, it was 72-65, Leeds, 34-14, and Greene, 29-22, according to officials at the respective town offices. Assistant Superintendent Thomas Ambrose said the $25.57 million budget came in […]
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Civil lawsuit against Androscoggin County Commission to proceed
AUBURN — A civil lawsuit filed against the Androscoggin County Commission will proceed after a superior court found certain claims made by the suing cities and towns of Androscoggin County have sufficient merit to go to trial. The court ruled, however, that the case will proceed only against the County Commission as a legislative body, […]
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Historical society looking for Leeds stories
LEEDS — A 1874 news article reported, “A hen belonging to G.G. Hussey from Leeds laid recently an egg, measuring 6 by 7¾ and nearly a quarter of a pound in weight.” One from the same era provides an update on James Roach’s small boy, who had choked on a kernel of corn 13 weeks […]
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Malinda R. Hutter
1979 – 2015 LEEDS — Malinda R. Hutter, 36, of Leeds died at her home, surrounded by her loving family, on Thursday, Nov. 19, after a valiant battle with cancer. She was born in Lewiston on Feb. 11, 1979, a daughter of Albert and Deana (Bachelder) Hewins Jr. She was educated in Turner and graduated […]
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Game wardens charge Fayette, Jay, Livermore males in deer slayings
FARMINGTON — Four teens have been charged with shooting four deer and leaving them to die in Franklin and Androscoggin counties in April, Maine Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald said in a news release Wednesday. Wardens charged Zachary Black, 19, of Jay, Kyle Elliott, 19, of Fayette, and two 17-year-old males from Livermore with one […]