Sasha Lennon nails plastic on the end of a greenhouse in the middle of Alice’s Acres, a plot of land at the University of Maine 4-H Camp & Learning Center in Woodstock on Monday. The Bates College graduate is an AmeriCorps volunteer who teaches and does chores at the camp on Lake Christopher. In the […]
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4,000 signs of spring in Lewiston
Mike Small of Roak the Florist in Lewiston waters some of the 4,000 geraniums he has growing in one of the greenhouses on Tuesday. “Just about everyone is about a week late getting started, but with days like today they will catch up quickly and be ready for Mothers Day and Memorial Day which is […]
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Brianna Marie Belisle
AUGUSTA — Brianna Marie Belisle, 25, of Harrison and the Rangeley Lakes area, passed away unexpectedly Sunday, Jan. 21. She was born in Farmington on June 5, 1992, the daughter of Marie McIntosh & Brian Belisle and was educated in the Oxford Hills and Rangeley Lakes school districts, receiving her diploma in 2012. Brianna was a […]
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Maine celebrates Greenhouse and Nursery Day
AUGUSTA — Mainers are celebrating the greenhouses and nurseries used to cultivate plants in their often chilly climate. The state’s annual celebration is Saturday with facilities across the state opening their doors with planned events that include raffles, planting demonstrations, tours and speakers. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry says more than half […]
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Backyard Farms faces delay in restart, furloughs employees
MADISON — Backyard Farms on Friday said it would need to delay the restart of its greenhouse operations and temporarily lay off an unspecified number of employees. The commercial tomato grower was forced in July to rip out all its half a million tomato plants because of a white-fly infestation. It had expected to plant […]