Steve Campbell and his family as seen on the Greene Baptist Church website. (greenebaptist.org) A Christian missionary linked to a church in Greene has been accused of entering the territory of an isolated tribe in western Brazil and possibly exposing the natives to foreign germs. A Brazilian government agency said Steve Campbell could face charges […]
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Greene assistant rescue chief named Firefighter of the Year
George Farris, right, assistant rescue chief for the Greene Fire Department, is presented Androscoggin County Fire Association’s Firefighter of the Year award by association President Ben Limerick last week. A Greene firefighter for 45 years, Farris also serves as training officer, teaches CPR to local businesses and organizations, and works with United Ambulance. Greene Fire Chief […]
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Greene home leveled in fire
GREENE — Fire investigators say a faulty wood boiler pipe was the likely cause of a blaze that destroyed a house Tuesday morning on Pond View Road. The fire at the raised-ranch house of Dennis and Debbie Rioux was reported late Monday . Crews from several towns, including Monmouth, Wales and Leeds, assisted Greene firefighters at […]
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SAD 52 board signs new contract with support staff
TURNER — After several months of negotiations, School Administrative District 52 directors approved a new support staff contract last week. Superintendent Kimberly Brandt said the Tri-Town Education Association Support Staff contract covers about 124 employees in positions such as educational technicians, food services and computer technicians. The last contract expired in July. Negotiations started in […]
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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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Spooky presentation in Greene
Tim Caverly presents a slide show and radio show of his children’s book “An Allagash Haunting” on Friday at Sawyer Memorial in Greene. The book is based on reported ghost sightings in a lumber camp in Churchill Dam and features a fictionalized version of Caverly’s granddaughter and her imagined introduction to the long-dead Emile Camile. […]
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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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Sawyer Memorial to host spooky stories and ice cream social
GREENE — There will be spooky stories and an ice cream social to get people in the Halloween spirit at 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, at the Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road, when Maine Author Tim Caverly presents “An Allagash Haunting: The Story of Emile Camile.” “A damping cloak of darkness approaches; it […]
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District attorney weighs in on bogus Craigslist ad
GREENE — Days after learning that his Route 202 property had been looted, George Stanley said he has no expectation that people will return what was taken. “Nope,” Stanley said Friday. “I have no faith in human nature.” For days, people have been hauling away items from Stanley’s property after a bogus Craigslist ad announced […]
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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 […]