Face time: Alexander Chavez will spruce up the town’s veterans memorial and add a brick courtyard of veterans’ names.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, News, Schools & Education
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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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Politics
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.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News, Schools & Education
Turner-based school district budget passes, but majority in Greene disapprove
Though most voters among Leeds, Turner and Greene residents voted to approve the Maine School Administrative District 52 budget, it was a thin majority.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Livermore Falls ends solid waste hauler permit for Darcy’s Disposal Service
Several customers wrote emails supporting Darcy Croteau’s business, but several complaints had been logged accusing Croteau of rude behavior, including a Transfer Station employee.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News
Tractor-trailer destroyed by fire after colliding with pickup in Turner
A tractor-trailer and pickup truck crashed on Route 4 causing a large fire and diesel fuel spill. Both drivers sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Turner man holding the line on Lake Auburn stewardship
For a dozen years, Robert Crosby has maintained a series of tubes that collect discarded fishing line. He’s hoping someone else will join his one-man crew.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, Maine Crime, News
Minot man charged in crash that injured 4, including Monmouth police lieutenant
Police said Sean McNeil was drunk and driving recklessly on the early evening of Jan. 6 when his Ford pickup truck crossed the centerline on Turner Center Road and into the path of a truck.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News, Schools & Education
Turner-area school board meets goal with proposed budget
The Maine School Administrative District 52 board kept the increase for each town below 8% with the hope of winning voter approval.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, Maine Crime, News
Police: Fatal shooting at marijuana operation in Turner was ‘drug rip gone bad’
A Virginia man was shot in the head and dumped nearly 40 miles away after a botched robbery last December, according to recently unsealed court documents.