Monday Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Livermore: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Buckfield: Buckfield Village […]
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Mt. Blue students reorganize, collect food for school food pantry
FARMINGTON — Students in the grades seven to 12 Day Treatment Program at Mt. Blue Campus have taken over the school’s food pantry in a service learning project. Boxes of books and a mobile cart were moved to free up shelves for food storage. Students checked expiration dates on food that had been previously collected […]
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Wilton decides against retail strategy
WILTON — The Board of Selectpersons has agreed with neighboring towns that now is not the right time to invest in a retail strategy. Farmington, Jay, Livermore Falls and Wilton were asked to collaborate on a retail development contract with Texas-based Buxton Co. to help attract retailers to the area. What happens in one town helps […]
Posted inFranklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Livermore man to be recognized for work at Jay plant
JAY — Being good at physics and chemistry in high school and liking it led Mark Holt of Livermore into the field of wastewater treatment. Holt’s chemistry teacher at Livermore Falls High School, Bob Clark, told him to look at a program at Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor. He looked at what the program […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Jay woman who survived horrific crash getting her life back
Lauren Faeth survived a horrific car accident and overcame a traumatic brain injury five years ago to go to college and become a nurse. This week, the 23-year-old from Jay is taking her nursing board exams. The next day, she’s having her right leg amputated below the knee. She calls it part of getting her life […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Bethel man among four charged in N.H. vehicle inspection investigation
The New Hampshire State Police recently concluded a six-month investigation of state safety inspection facilities that resulted in four arrests. Allen Demers, 57, of Gorham, New Hampshire, Alan Moody, 51, of Whitefield, New Hampshire, Randall Grondin, 44, of Bethel, Maine, and Luke McGillicuddy, 24, of Gorham, New Hampshire, were arrested on a variety of charges, […]
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Church offers a place to heal
FARMINGTON — Church can become home, as shared by testimonies of two members of Living Waters Assembly of God Church. We offer their stories, which they shared with Pastor Steve Bracy. Steve Moseley I have never been a church-going person or a religious person. But, for the past 15 months when I walk through the […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Strong presence in times of grieving
FARMINGTON — God is real to Dorothy Meldrum every day, but perhaps even more so during times of grieving. “The Lord has been closest to me then,” she said about feeling His presence during the loss of loved ones in her life. Deborah Joy, a daughter Meldrum had with her first husband, died when she […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
A call to open a business
WILTON — Talking to God and about God is just part of who Mona Linder is. “The older I get, the more I realize how good God is,” said Linder, 91, of East Wilton. Her faith and love of people guided her to open a business while she was in her late 60s. Linder and […]
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Emerging from a faith crisis
FARMINGTON — God reaches out to help us where we are, the Rev. Susan Crane says of her own experience with a faith crisis. Crane grew up in church, but lost her faith during college. “I couldn’t believe in God if I couldn’t prove that he existed,” she said. She didn’t want to be disingenuous, […]