RANGELEY — Police have charged two 17-year-old boys from Rangeley and Avon with breaking into Rangeley Lakes Regional School and causing more than $8,000 in damages. Damage included spray-painted anti-Semitic messages, swastikas, racial slurs and anti-police statements, Police Chief Russell French said. Cooking oil stored in a large storage room that was broken into was […]
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Voters approve $9.19M RSU 58 budget
SALEM TOWNSHIP — Voters from Avon, Kingfield, Phillips and Strong on Tuesday approved a $9.19 million budget for Regional School Unit 58 for 2016-17. According to Superintendent Susan Pratt, the budget is $215,943, or 2.3 percent, less than last year. This year, the school board recommended that $760,827 was needed to pay for athletics, co-curricular […]
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Fire destroys Avon home; dog saved
AVON — A house at 242 Avon Valley Road was destroyed by fire Friday morning. The fire at the home of Scott Wilcox and Mary Bachelder is believed to have started around the exterior of the building, Phillips Fire Chief Mark Rousseau, said. It may have started with a chimney fire and embers that dropped […]
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Seven officers to be elected at Avon meeting
AVON — Voters will meet Saturday to elect seven officers and set a budget for the year. The annual town meeting starts at 9 a.m. at the Town Hall. Nominations for a selectman, school board director, town clerk, constable, tax collector, treasurer and road commissioner will be taken from the floor. Last year’s costs to […]
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Avon man faces charges after police respond to crash
STRONG — An Avon man faces numerous charges after Maine State Police responded to an accident Tuesday on Route 4. When Trooper Randy Hall arrived on scene he saw that the 2006 Toyota Tacoma was about 70 feet off the road with major damage to the front end, Hall said Thursday. Hall learned the driver, […]
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Fire damages Avon residence; state fire investigators to determine cause
AVON — About 20 firefighters from three departments responded to a fire late Monday that damaged the residence of Daryl “Poochie” Searles at 148 Avon Valley Road, Phillips Fire Chief James Gould said. State fire investigators are investigating the cause, he said. “We can’t say if it was accidental or a set fire. The fire […]
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Kingfield voters weigh RSU 58 withdrawal
KINGFIELD — Some residents at a public hearing on withdrawing from Regional School Unit 58 on Monday evening advocated a thoughtful consideration of the move. Residents will vote July 16 at Webster Hall on whether to continue the 22-step process. The ballot question also asks whether voters will allow selectmen to spend up to $20,000 […]
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Virginia P. White
1945 – 2015 AVON — Virginia “Mammee” Pearl White, 69, of Avon died at home on Wednesday, June 10, with her loving family by her side. She was born in Farmington on Nov. 7, 1945, the daughter of Benjamin F. and Pearl L. (Ames) Savage. She had been a resident of Avon for most of […]
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Phillips man injured, Avon house damaged when tractor-trailer rolls
AVON — A Phillips man was injured early Wednesday when the tractor-trailer he was driving north on Route 4 failed to negotiate a sharp turn, causing the truck to tip over and spill its load of logs into the road. One of the logs went through a window of a nearby house, Franklin County Sheriff […]
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Malcolm D. Toothaker
1919 – 2015 PORTLAND — Malcolm “Macky” Durwood Toothaker of Portland and formerly of Avon, passed away on Monday, April 13. He was 96 years of age and having a wonderful life, “a gentle man known by his gentle deeds.” Born in East Madrid on April 9, 1919, to Fred and Angie (Pease) Toothaker, he […]