LISBON — The School Committee on Monday offered opinions on joining or creating a regional leadership center, as part of a new state law. Superintendent Richard Green discussed creating a center with Regional School Unit 4 for alternative and day treatment programs, and staff professional development. RSU 4 includes Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales. “We are […]
Androscoggin County
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Working: Modern cider from ‘old forgotten apples’
POWNAL — David Buchanan is serious about his cider. On his picturesque farm, in a new tasting room — an old post and beam house found on Craigslist, rebuilt and restored here last year — he talks about collecting rare apples like people collect art. There’s doggedness in the search, the thrill of finding a gem, […]
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Allegations spur district attorney to halt private prisoner transports
District Attorney Andrew Robinson referred to a six-page letter written by an Androscoggin County Jail inmate who detailed the account of her five-day trip from Florida to Maine last November caged in the back of a private prisoner transport van during which she was denied bathroom breaks and subjected to other inhumane treatment.
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Fish fertilizing young Lisbon farmer’s dream
LISBON — New aquaponics farmer Trevor Kenkel’s first sale this summer: a delivery of basil to Gelato Fiasco. “They made a basil sorbet out of it,” said Kenkel, 20. The sophomore biology major at Bowdoin College opened Springworks Farm earlier this year, using fish to farm. In his marriage of aquaculture and hydroponics, wastewater from 1,000 […]
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The Buzz: Mmm pie, yeah art! and go-go autos
It’s one sweet expansion. Nick Benoit, the owner of Benoit’s Bakery & Wine Cellar in Lisbon, is opening a second bakery in Naples. He’s named it Pretentious Pie Co. Benoit said someone suggested the area for all its summer traffic. When he scoped it out, “Naples was packed.” Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, […]
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Spectral lady hitches ride one night on Route 26, then vanishes
One moment the hitchhiker was making small talk with her teen driver, then she disappeared.
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Elan School: Torment or treatment?
Some former students say their experience at the controversial school saved their lives. Others wonder whether they will ever recover from the abuse they say they suffered there decades ago.
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Farmers’ markets in the area
A sure sign of warm weather is the reopening of farmers’ markets across the state, and there are plenty to visit in the area Maine.