TURNER — The Board of Selectmen will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday to review and vote on a warrant for a special town meeting this month. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, at Leavitt Area High School. One article will ask if residents will vote to spend up to $431,588 for […]
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Fans turn out to meet ‘North Woods Law’ stars
TURNER — The stars of “North Woods Law” came to town Saturday and were greeted by fans eager to bag autographs. The Turner Public Library invited Maine Game Warden Dave Chabot and others to talk about their work, hunting laws and the upcoming bear referendum. Wardens who spoke included Kris MacCabe and Troy Thibodeau, who […]
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Talk: ‘Commercial-Free Childhood’ FREEPORT — Dr. Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, will give a public talk titled “The Gift of a Commercial-Free Childhood,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Merriconeag Waldorf School’s Community Hall, 57 Desert Road. Donations will be accepted […]
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Nominees sought for Norman Prize for Teacher Excellence
ELLSWORTH — Students, parents, faculty and administration of SAD 52 are invited to nominate an outstanding full-time teacher for the Patience W. Norman Prize for Teacher Excellence. The prize carries a $5,000 award. Patience Norman was a history teacher with a fine, inquisitive mind who believed her students were capable of academic excellence. She required […]
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Friends blame ‘that stupid road’ for Turner motorcyclist’s death
AUBURN — Co-workers and friends said Wednesday they worried every time Gary Michaud took his motorcycle out on Route 4. It wasn’t Michaud’s skills that concerned them, Carl Olsen said. “We read him the riot act all the time because Route 4 is so dangerous,” said Olsen, manager of the NAPA Auto Parts Store at […]
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Turner board hears rescue budgets
TURNER — More on-call staffing in the Rescue Department would save the town money, Chief Toby Martin told selectmen this week. Martin presented the board Monday night with two proposals for the 2015 rescue budget. Each included money to staff two ambulances during the day and one ambulance at night and on weekends. Both anticipate […]
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Motorcyclist dies in Turner collision
TURNER — A motorcyclist died from injuries sustained in a crash with an SUV on Route 4 on Tuesday afternoon, police said Tuesday night. around 3:32 p.m. Gary Michaud, 41 of Turner, was on his 1999 Harley-Davidson XL 120, waiting to leave Turner Plaza as two vehicles traveled north on Route 4, Lt. Glen Holt […]
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Dempsey Challenge begins on ‘a beautiful day to save a life’
LEWISTON — “It’s a beautiful day to save a life.” That phrase, printed on bright pink T-shirts worn by one of the Dempsey Challenge teams at Saturday’s run/walk event, summed up the sentiments of thousands of people at the sixth annual fundraiser for the Patrick Dempsey Center for Hope and Healing. Opening under bright sun […]
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Foraging for health and nutrition MERCER — The Upper Kennebec Valley Chapter of the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine will hold an informative field session of foraging with forage experts Lizzy Hayes and Geoff Nosach of Mercer at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at 122 Corson Road in Mercer, off the Rome Road. Not […]