Board: Turner selectmen Met: Monday night New park, new name Issue: Selectmen had been looking for a name for a spruced-up patch of property on School House Hill Road, next to the Nezinscot Dam. The scoop: Selectmen Dennis Richardson suggested naming it the Philip S. Bryant Memorial Park, after the only man from Turner to […]

AUBURN — Two men were arrested and 28 pounds of processed marijuana was seized Thursday morning, according to a release issued by Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland on Friday. Troy Melanson, 26, of Auburn and Benjamin Thone, 32, of Turner were charged with aggravated trafficking in marijuana. The arrests and seizure were […]

Board: Turner selectmen Met: Monday night Wanted: Chairs, table returned Issue: Town policy doesn’t allow town furniture to be loaned or borrowed. Nonetheless, the building manager of the Boofy Quimby Memorial Center discovered six 6-foot, gray tables and 31 white plastic chairs missing two weeks ago. The scoop: Three tables have since been returned. The […]

Over 16 months, Jaime Tardy and her husband, Matt, shook $70,000 in debt and saved up $23,000. Now, she says, they’re on their way to banking a million. In a live on-air interview last week, CNN asked the Turner woman how she did it. Anchor Tony Harris’ guessed: Lots of beans and rice? Sort of, […]

AUBURN — A Turner man accused of intentionally killing his wife pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge in Androscoggin County Superior Court. Brian Nichols, 45, was dressed in an orange jail suit when he stood before a judge to hear the charge against him. He waived a formal reading of the indictment. His […]

Board: Turner selectmen Met: Monday night Fixing Fish Street Issue: Last year, the town won a $55,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to repair erosion along Fish Street, which is being worn away by the Nezinscot River. Issue: It’s worse than it first appeared. Up next: Town Manager Eva Leavitt is going to […]

TURNER — Carter Veilleux likes the way he wears his hair, and he likes his rugby shirts and sweaters. But most of all, the Tripp Middle School seventh-grader likes his music — his piano and his saxophone. So his mother, Kim, knew something was wrong last year when he said he was ready to give […]