Turner News

Scott Johnson, center, and Josh Reil, 17, make a squash and vegetable dish while Denise Dill makes fresh mozzarella at the St.

A home in Buckfield was destroyed in an early morning fire. Fire officials say the home was fully involved when they arrived on scene around 3:00 Sunday morning.

Santa and Mrs. Claus wave to children along the Christmas Parade route down Main Street in South Paris/Norway on Saturday afternoon.

TURNER a ' You might say that all is well with the Hannaford development plan. At a Planning Board meeting Wednesday night, board members and Hannaford representatives spent more than an hour discussing how the proposed project might affect wells at homes in the area.

LIVERMORE a ' School directors voted Thursday to transfer $8,669 from the middle school contingency fund to pay for mold cleanup in the basement of Livermore Falls Middle School.

LEWISTON a ' Something in his jumbled stack of death notices, marriage certificates and military discharges sparks Gordon Kimball's imagination.

TURNER a ' Town leaders plan to continue their review Wednesday of Turner's biggest commercial development in decades, Hannford's proposed 36,000-square-foot supermarket on Route 4. Such issues as traffic, wetlands, parking, lighting will be addressed by the Planning Board at a meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the town office on Route 117.

Berwick and Lewiston, Maine -Northeast Bank Insurance Group, Inc. announces that it's newest agency, Goodrich Insurance Associates, located at 70 Sullivan Street in Berwick, has relocated to the company's Spence & Mathews Agency at its 4 Sullivan Square location, just down the street effective November 2nd.

Ethan Rines, 5, gives his new dog, Nicco, a Portuguese water dog, a big hug after the dog sniffed around Antigoni's Pizza in Turner for peanuts.

TURNER a ' Authorities continued their search Tuesday night for an armed man who robbed a redemption center in North Turner just minutes before the store was set to close.

Amherst College representative Paul Chaffin talks to sophomore students Jill Jacobs and Jacob Newcomb about attending the Massachusetts school during a college fair at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris on Tuesday morning.

BUCKFIELD a ' Selectmen on Tuesday learned of a citizens' petition calling for a 180-day moratorium on wind power development in town.

Nicco, a Portuguese Water Dog, has been trained as a peanut-detection dog and will go to his new owner, Ethan Rines, 5, later this month.

John Nutting hooks a heifer up to a self-contained milking machine. The cow had been on antibiotics for an infection and her milk has to be thrown away until it tests antibiotic-free. The Maine tier program, a safety net for farmers when dairy prices plummet, is out of money, leaving milk producers nervous about making ends meet this fall.

LEWISTON a ' Authorities are investigating whether a Turner man took proper care of the chickens on his property and whether they're rightfully his.

AUBURN a ' A Leeds man appeared in court Tuesday on a felony charge of elevated aggravated assault in connection with a hit and run that left a Turner man in critical condition earlier this month.

Dearborn led every lap and was never really challenged, despite the best efforts of Ben Rowe and Kelly Moore .

Today's Commercial Street in Portland is a hipper, livelier version of its former self.

LIVERMORE a ' For a taste of Maine's heritage circa 1000 A.D., the third annual Maine Cultural and Music Festival on Sept.

LEWISTON a ' A month before the first mile is logged in the Dempsey Challenge, the charity event created by actor Patrick Dempsey is surpassing expectations.