TURNER — Mike Burd, a professional musician who tours nationally playing bass with Maine’s own Dave Mallett, will be the instructor at SAD 52 Adult & Community Education’s ukulele class, from 7 to 8 pm. Wednesdays, Nov. 7 through Dec. 5, at Leavitt Area High School. Students will learn just enough of the fundamentals and […]
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Turner's Ricker Hill Orchards grows, presses on
Apples. Hard cider. Weddings. Wine. Hustle. Hope. Debt. It’s all in the mix for the eighth-generation orchard as it looks to generation nine and the future. TURNER — The new, bright-red Bucher apple press sticks out in the old barn that is the center of Ricker Hill Orchards’ cider operation, a high-tech giant half the […]
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Workshop at Leavitt high school
TURNER — A story published on Page B3 on Monday should have said the location of the Fused Glass Panel Workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, will be at Leavitt Area High School, with instructor Lynn Curran-Sargent of Random Pottery.
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Turner house destroyed by fire
TURNER (WGME) — A fire ripped through a home on Sunday afternoon where firefighters said they were battling flames for hours. The Turner Fire Department said the fire broke out around 1 p.m. on Route 117 in Turner. Know what’s happening, when it’s happening Firefighters said no one was living in the home when the […]
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Hornets vs Hunger walk to be part of Make a Difference Day
TURNER — Leavitt Area High School will be participating in the Hornets vs Hunger walk in conjunction with Make a Difference Day on Wednesday, Oct. 24 with a weather date of Oct. 25. The entire school community will walk to the Turner Elementary School and around the high school in an effort to raise funds […]
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SAD 52 hires a dozen
TURNER — The SAD 52 school board filled a dozen open positions Thursday night and heard about upcoming work with a security consultant. Superintendent Kimberly Brandt said the board hired a new guidance counselor for Turner Primary School pending certification, a new high school social worker, new grade 5 teacher for Greene Central School, three […]
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Fire damages Turner home on Sandy Bottom Road
Firefighters from Minot, left, and Buckfield look for hot spots at a home that caught on fire in Turner on Wednesday. Greene, Leeds, Auburn, Minot and Buckfield fire departments assisted Turner at the fire on Sandy Bottom Road. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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Turner landowner asks permission to find cable conduit
TURNER — The Board of Selectmen agreed Monday evening to let a new landowner in the Wilson Bluff subdivision search for a missing cable conduit. According to the owner, who emailed the board, contractor Mark Fortin told her there was a cable conduit in the ground before she purchased the land. When she had a […]
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Turner wants input on future of town's villages
TURNER — The town Comprehensive Planning Committee will hold a public forum at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Leavitt Institute Community Room. The subject is the town’s villages. Town Manager Kurt Schaub wrote in a recent statement: “The classic New England village is often the image that comes to mind when people think […]
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New planner, new drivers and new graduation gowns for SAD 52
TURNER — School Administrative District 52 directors Thursday night hired a strategic planner to help chart goals for the next five years and heard about an improving school bus driver situation. Superintendent Kimberly Brandt said Friday that the district had been short as many as seven bus drivers, but in two weeks hopes to whittle that […]