FARMINGTON — After seven years at the helm of Franklin Community Health Network and Franklin Memorial Hospital, President and CEO Rebecca Arsenault announced her retirement, effective Feb. 29. “It has been a wonderful experience leading this incredible team of professionals,” Arsenault said in a release. “But we are at a place of envisioning a new future […]
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Farmington forum to focus on Maine’s heroin epidemic
FARMINGTON — A forum exploring Maine’s heroin epidemic will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, in Lincoln Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington. The public is welcome. Leaders in the community will join moderator Woody Hanstein to discuss how heroin has become such a problem and what the community […]
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Jay man pleads guilty to abusing child
FARMINGTON — A Jay man pleaded guilty Friday to physically abusing a 2-year-old child on July 13, 2015, in Wilton. Justice William Stokes sentenced Devin M. Medcoff, 21, to two years in prison, all suspended, and two years of probation. Medcoff entered an Alford plea to a felony charge of assault on a child under 6 […]
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Former school sold to Area Youth Sports
LIVERMORE FALLS — The Regional School Unit 73 board was told Thursday night that the former Livermore Falls High School was sold to Area Youth Sports for $1,000. Superintendent Kenneth Healey said the transaction was completed Jan. 19 and purchase includes the building but not the surrounding acreage. The district has been trying to sell […]
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UMF receives $45,000 for community actitivies program
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington has been awarded $45,000 for its program to engage students in meaningful community-based activities. The three-year grant for Partnership for Civic Advancement was awarded by Franklin Savings Bank’s Community Development Foundation. “We are indeed proud of the considerable accomplishments of the UMF Partnership for Civic Advancement,” UMF President Kathryn […]
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PUC to rule on New Sharon water rate increase
NEW SHARON — After customers of the New Sharon Water District twice filed petitions opposing a rate increase, the Maine Public Utilities Commission will decide whether to approve it. “We don’t know where it stands,” Mercy Hanson, treasurer for the district, said Thursday. “We’re in limbo. We’ll have to wait and see.” It could take […]
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Cost for Livermore shed higher than expected
LIVERMORE — Plans to build a sand/salt shed have stalled because the estimated cost has risen $100,000, Administrative Assistant Carrie Castonguay told selectpersons Monday night. She said she received an email Friday from Scott Braley, engineer from Plymouth Engineering, saying the projected cost is up to $400,000 because of prices for materials. “When Braley told […]
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Boston snowmobiler injured in weekend crash
LANG TOWNSHIP — Operator inexperience and speed were factors in a snowmobile crash that injured a Boston man over the weekend, Maine Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald wrote in a news release Wednesday. Jerome Gangitano, 50, was riding on ITS 89 northeast of Rangeley on Saturday afternoon when his sled failed to make a curve […]
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Mt. Blue student expelled for pot brownies
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 directors voted 9-3 Tuesday to indefinitely expel a Mt. Blue Campus student for distributing marijuana brownies on school property, Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday. Administrators will develop a re-entry plan. When the student completes the plan, Ward will determine if it was successfully done and recommend to directors whether […]
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Woodstock woman accused of forging lodging invoices
FARMINGTON — A Woodstock woman is accused of forging lodging invoices and charging them to the consulting firm she worked for, which in turn requested reimbursement from the Maine Department of Transportation. Sheila E. Curtis, 50, of 11 Concord Pond Road, was indicted Jan. 21 on one felony count each of theft by deception and […]