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Spruce Mountain student garden helps food pantry

JAY — Trevor Doiron, a Spruce Mountain High School sophomore, and a few other students and community members have just wrapped up their third year of growing a community garden. The garden, now with six beds, supplied the Tri-Town Ministerial Association Food Cupboard with 87 pounds of fresh vegetables. This year’s project included construction of […]

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Auto Racing: Doiron wins Oxford finale; Shaw pockets PASS title

Joey Doiron of Berwick won the Ripley and Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday afternoon, but second place was enough for D.J. Shaw to secure his first Pro All Stars Series North championship. Doiron stalked leader David Oliver for most of the race before emerging from a tense side-by-side battle with the […]

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Student garden yields crops for food pantry

JAY — The Community Garden at Spruce Mountain Middle School yielded nearly 80 pounds of vegetables that were donated to the Tri-Town Ministerial Association Food Cupboard. Trevor Doiron, a freshman at Spruce Mountain High School, headed up the effort for the second year. “We learned to set plants farther apart and plant cucumbers in hills,” […]