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Turkey biz stressful but rewarding
WEST GARDINER — With the sun reflecting off the disappearing layer of snow, Judy Abbott was enjoying a calm moment Saturday morning. The turkeys that she and her husband, Tom, raise at Foggy Moon Farm had been shipped off the day before for processing. Customers who have reserved birds will stop by to pick them […]
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Auburn man says garden 'keeps me going'
Arthur Charest prepares his tomato garden Wednesday for next year’s growing season, behind his home in Auburn. Charest, 84, said his tomatoes got off to a slow start this past summer, but finished strong. Gardening can be “a lot of work, but it keeps me going,” Charest said. “When you quit getting out, that’s when […]
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Alberta Briggs Morris
TURNER — Alberta Briggs Morris, a lifelong resident of Turner, passed away peacefully on Sept. 12. She was born Nov. 15, 1928, the youngest daughter of Hugh Cary Briggs and Lucy Lee Adams. As a young woman she met and married Nathan William Morris, a young man who worked on the farm of her parents. Alberta […]
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Former U.S. diplomat buys farm in Lisbon
Around the time President Trump fired his first secretary of state, Susan Thornton, the United States’ top diplomat in East Asia, gave her husband the go-ahead. He could put their house in Washington, D.C., on the market. The couple would act on their retirement dream of buying a farm in Maine, albeit earlier than they […]
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Sylvia A. Conley
WINDHAM — Sylvia Arlene Conley, 86, died Monday, Aug. 13, following a long period of declining health. Sylvia was a 1949 graduate of Portland High School and in 1952 from Maine Eye & Eye Infirmary School of Nursing. She was an active member of the MEEI Alumni. As a registered nurse she worked in many capacities […]
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George T. Affleck
LEWISTON — George T. Affleck, age 59, of Sumner, Maine, died Friday, June 8, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was born May 7, 1959, in Beaufort, South Carolina, to William R. “Bill” and Marilyn Ewing Affleck. He was a 1977 graduate of Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, and a 1982 graduate of […]
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Fleece cleaning
Abby Smith, 22, cleans a fleece from a recently sheered sheep at her home in Auburn. Smith, a third generation farmer on the White Ingram Smith Harris (W.I.S.H.) farm, raises sheep but cleans this fleece for a customer. Smith’s great-grandfather, Ingram White, bought the 27-acre farm with money from working in logging camps in northern […]
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Clifford Joseph Levesque
WEST GARDINER — Clifford Joseph Levesque, age 85, died June 16, 2018, at his home, surrounded by family. Clifford is survived by his wife, Cecile, of West Gardiner; his son, Paul; his son, Gary “Hohon”; his daughter, Jane (Carl); his daughter, Debra; his son, Leo (Jeannine); his daughter-in-law, Kathy; his 11 grandchildren; his 22 great-grandchildren; and […]
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Peter A. Marble Sr.
WILTON — Peter Aaron Marble Sr., 67, passed peacefully into the arms of Jesus on June 7. He was born on Dec. 11, 1950, in Farmington, the son of Harlan and Nathalie (Spiller) Marble. A 1969 graduate of Wilton Academy and a 1972 machine tool graduate of Central Maine VTI, Peter’s years of employment were largely […]