TURNER — On a Monday morning, Nate Vradenburgh sat with other farm workers as fresh cranberries rolled by on a conveyor belt. With quick eyes and hands, Ricker Hill Orchard workers pulled out berries not good enough to get into bags and sold to stores. White berries went in a bin for wine; mushed berries […]
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High School Hockey: Leavitt hires Boucher
Dave Boucher went to officiate a pair of soccer games this fall, and a hockey coaching opportunity appeared. Boucher, of Lewiston, who last coached four years ago at Brunswick High School and previously had coached at Edward Little, is the new head coach of the Leavitt Hornets. “It really is a coup, we couldn’t be […]
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Land O’Lakes must be held to higher standard
Dateline Minneapolis/St. Paul. October 2011. “Another lawsuit has been filed alleging that Land O’Lakes Inc. and other major dairy producers illegally conspired to drive the price of milk up by slaughtering a half-million dairy cows since 2003,” according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. It’s scary when Big Agriculture starts to sound more like Big […]
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L. Giard: Protests encourage change
I’ve been reading and listening to the news about the march on Wall Street and I am very impressed by this movement. Dissent, to me, is very patriotic. We cannot all be camping out in protest but we could take turns, by groups, to march from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the state […]
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SAD 52 offers adult ed classes
TURNER — SAD 52 Adult and Community Education offers learning for work and life. On Nov. 30, there will be a workshop titled “German New Medicine.” Discovered by a German Doctor, GNM offers a completely new understanding of what we commonly call “diseases” based on five biological laws. This class will present an overview of […]
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Police log
Charges Lewiston * William Norman Sampson, 47, of 40 Pierce St., on charges of domestic violence terrorizing and cruelty to animals, 10:17 a.m. Sunday at 80 Wood St. Auburn * Sean P. Ridge, 23, of 54 Torrey Hill Road, Turner, on a charge of operating under the influence, 10:05 p.m. Sunday at 603 Center St. […]
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Violence against nurses
This is in response to a brief story, “Patient bites nurse at Portland hospital” (Sun Journal, Nov. 4). Violence toward nurses in the emergency department does not hold enough public awareness in relation to its prevalence. In a 2010 national survey of emergency nurses, 85 percent of participants reported being verbally assaulted by patients and […]
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Animal rights group cautious about new egg farm owner
LEWISTON — An animal protection group whose undercover work led to thousands of dollars in fines against the former DeCoster egg farm in Turner warns that the farm’s new operators may be little better. On Tuesday, Land O’ Lakes subsidiary Moark LLC announced that it signed a long-term lease to take over egg production in […]
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Burned-out tenants in Lewiston return to find items stolen
LEWISTON — Nearly a week after a fire rendered their apartment at 279 Pine St. temporarily uninhabitable, Krystal Johnson and her children were ready to move back in. But first, she had some bad news for her children: Within a few days of the fire, someone had broken into the home and stolen many of […]
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Worker loses fingers at egg farm
TURNER — Federal safety officials are investigating after a worker lost two fingers at an egg farm Sunday morning. Bill Coffin, area director for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said the accident was reported by management at Maine Contract Farming LLC on an OSHA hot line. His office also received a tip through someone […]