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| Teddy and the Rough Riders |
| A horse in New Gloucester is depending on the kindness of community |
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Teddy, a quarter horse gelding about 10 to 12 years old, is receiving care in New Gloucester for a leg injury that went untreated for 18 months. Courtesy photo |
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By Michael Hartwell
On her small family farm in New Gloucester, Susan Kendrick said it’s hard to believe the gentle, upbeat chestnut-brown quarter horse in her stable is the same miserable creature that limped in this July.
“He is calm and gentle,” said Kendrick, who works as a cardiac nurse. Teddy, the horse in question, needs to have his leg treated with an antiseptic Dakin’s solution twice every day and she said the horse is a model patient when it’s time to have his wound cleaned and flushed.
According to Kendrick, Teddy was driven to Maine in a horse trailer from Oklahoma in April 2007. During transport his rear right leg received a grievous wound; a four-inch tall gouge that covered the kneecap.
Teddy was briefly shown to a veterinarian, but the owners did not bother to give the wound daily treatment, ...More-->
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| Local paper cuts six jobs |
| The Lakes Region Weekly is the latest media group hurt by the economy |
By Michael Hartwell
David Harry, editor of the Lakes Region Weekly newspaper, was one of six employees let go last week in what the parent company is calling a “restructuring.”
“We didn’t have any layoffs, we did eliminate some positions,” said Lee Hews, publisher of the Maine-based newspaper company Current Publishing, which owns six weekly papers in Southern Maine. Hews said the company has moved around people and responsibilities within the office because of tough economic times.
David Harry declined comment to The Independent.
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eliminated from the editorial and administration departments, another two from the graphics department, and a fifth from Internet-based advertising. She said two employees were offered different jobs within the company, one of them took the offer and the other didn’t.
Some employees were promoted and given more responsibilities, according to Hews, such as one reporter who is in charge of arts and entertainment news in addition to the towns she already covered.
“David’s not there,” said Hews, “But we’ll still have the same coverage in the area.” ...More-->
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By Dawn De Busk
Gray residents Joseph Baiocchi and Christa Metivier and her mixed-breed collie, Wizard, arrived at the Libby Hill trailhead an hour before sunset on Sunday. Sporting a hunter-orange vest, Wizard carried a yellow tennis ball in his mouth and seemed anxious to start the late afternoon hike.
Meanwhile, the sun played hide-and-seek behind fast-moving clouds ...More-->
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Windham resident Carene Ramsay and her beagle, Jewel, take abreak from walking along Chaffin Pond. Dawn De Busk photo
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