After 63 years in business, Ron Blake and his wife, Lisa Cote-Blake, will close Cote Bros. Sewing Machines next month unless a buyer comes through. Lisa’s father and his brothers founded the business back in the day to serve the once-thriving shoe industry in Lewiston-Auburn. The Blakes closed it once before, in 2008, selling the […]
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Turner and Leeds historical societies to host joint program
TURNER — The Turner Museum and Historical Society will host a joint program with the Leeds Historical Society at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 14, at their location on the fourth floor of the Leavitt Institute Building, 98 Matthews Way. An informal walk-around with light refreshments will start the program, followed by a presentation of approximately […]
Turner voters increase spending, OK medical marijuana retail
Town meeting attendees approved money for an assessor and passed a marijuana storefront ordinance.
Leavitt announces first-semester honor roll students
TURNER — Leavitt Area High School has announced its first-semester honor roll students. Highest Honors Grade 12: Danielle Allaire, Tamra Benson, Jenna Boucher, Noah Brown, Adelle Darling, Lindsey Desmarais, Benjamin Dyke, Talon Gilbert, Amos Grant, Stephen Gray, Hope Hutchinson, Elizabeth Johnson, Katherine Manchester, Marta Riva, Madison Smart, Ryley Velozo and Destinee White. Grade 11: Megan […]
Turner voters head to polls Friday, town meeting Saturday
Three ordinances governing marijuana and event barns are on the warrant.
Turner street getting improvements this summer
Town requested state to fix Upper Street a year earlier than planned.
It is opening day for die-hard anglers
On Monday, diehard anglers will dust off their fishing poles and head to streams and rivers for the opening day of the fishing season.
MSAD 52 announces Adult and Community Ed spring classes
Call or go online to find out locations of classes.
Avast and ahoy! Turner’s new pirate (and soon, alien)-themed escape room
TURNER — You wake up in the captain’s quarters of the ghost ship the Mermaid’s Curse, shackled to the wall, surrounded by skeletons and you have an hour to make your way out. A TV screen in the corner ticks down the seconds and 25 feet away in another room, Jeff Cooper is watching via […]
Turner library to hold annual Spring Seminar in Gardening
Topics to be covered are “Beginning with Bees” and “Flowering Shrubs: Creating Forage for Pollinators,” to presented on April 13.