TURNER – The eighth annual Winter Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Leavitt Institute Building, 99 Matthews Way. The event is a major fund raiser for the Turner Public Library and the Turner Museum and Historical Association housed in the Leavitt Building. This year officers of […]
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Jean S. Morris
AUBURN — Jean S. Morris, 73, of Upper Street, Turner, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Hospice House following a brief illness. She was born in Lewiston, July 12, 1938, the daughter of the late Albert and Hazel (Varney) Sennett. On the Sept. 4, 1954, she married Marshall Morris, who died on Feb. 8, 1996. […]
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Posted inObituaries
Jean S. Morris
AUBURN — Jean S. Morris, 73, of Upper Street, Turner, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Hospice House following a brief illness. She was born in Lewiston, July 12, 1938, the daughter of the late Albert and Hazel (Varney) Sennett. On the Sept. 4, 1954, she married Marshall Morris, who died on Feb. 8, 1996. […]
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Pigs lead police on scramble in Auburn
AUBURN — A passel of pigs kept local police and an animal control officer busy for nearly an hour Tuesday afternoon as they tried to wrangle the escaped hogs into their pen near the Turner town line. Five hogs were spotted on Route 4 just before 1 p.m., when a passing Androscoggin County Sheriff’s deputy […]
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Briefly
Bridge results LEWISTON — The Lewiston-Auburn Bridge Club winners at the Multi-Purpose Center on Nov. 22 were as follows: first, Patricia Garcia and David Lock; second, Nancy Lindgren and Fred Letourneau; third, Jan Arey and Linda Leotsakos; first in B, Della Starbird and Anna Vitiello. Games are played every Monday and Tuesday at 9 a.m. […]
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Talk of the town
DeCoster out of eggs I don’t want to freak anybody out. But isn’t that one of the seven signs of the apocalypse? I think the great Nostradamus said it best in the quatrain that states: “The grand empire will be quickly reduced when the last cackleberry is squeezed from the last chicken in the empire […]
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Snowstorm blasts into Maine
TURNER — It’s not a competition, of course. But if it were, Turner would have edged out Lewiston and points south. That’s according to schoolteacher Sue Conklin, who says Turner got more snow than Lewiston and she has the technology to prove it. “We had a couple more hours of snow,” Conklin said, “that Lewiston […]
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High court ruling paves way for new Hannaford store in Turner
LEWISTON — The state’s top court ruled Tuesday in favor of Hannaford Bros. Co., giving the major grocer the green light to break ground on construction next spring in Turner. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the judgment of a lower court decision that the Turner Planning Board properly gave Hannaford the nod last year […]
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After salmonella outbreak, Jack DeCoster leaves the egg industry
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A ruthless businessman who built one of the nation’s largest egg production operations from scratch even as he racked up environmental and labor violations is getting out of the business in disgrace after one scandal was too much to overcome: a nationwide salmonella outbreak caused by his products. Austin “Jack” […]