Maine farmers and experts say the dry summer is part of a larger cycle that the agriculture industry must be ready for.
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Auburn woman dies Tuesday in Turner crash
Police say Jacqueline Langevin struck a FedEx delivery truck.
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How to get local food through Community Supported Agriculture
When it comes to buying local food and helping give farmers more revenue security, Community Supported Agriculture programs are one of the best ways to do that.
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See photos from local farms serving customers with CSAs
Staff Photographer Libby Kamrowski Kenny captures images of life at Little Ridge Farm in Lisbon and Nezinscot Farm in Turner.
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For Maine farmers, CSAs bring more certainty to an unforgiving industry
Many farmers have embraced community supported agriculture as a way to stabilize income and promote the benefits of local agriculture.
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How cheap weed from ‘gray market’ growers ends up on Maine dispensary shelves
Law enforcement experts say cheap, sometimes tainted weed grown by Chinese criminal groups is getting into the state’s medical market. Business owners say it’s cratering market rates and pushing reputable growers out of the industry.
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Turner-area school community split as board reviews transgender policies
Maine School Administrative District 52, which includes Turner, Leeds and Greene, may align its policies with President Trump’s executive order recognizing only ‘biological gender.’
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Turner teen’s Eagle Scout project honors town veterans
Face time: Alexander Chavez will spruce up the town’s veterans memorial and add a brick courtyard of veterans’ names.
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Another Maine school may change gender policy to match Trump’s
Turner-area Maine School Administrative District 52 directors voted last week to ask its lawyer about the legalities around only recognizing the gender a student is assigned at birth.
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How a former lawmaker grew weed with alleged Chinese crime groups in rural Maine
A web of shell companies and illegal grows allegedly linked to Chinese organized crime traces its start to one former Democratic legislator, his cannabis consulting business, and his chain of central Maine dispensaries.