Mark Twain wrote, “Reader: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Is blaming Maine’s economic mess on the poorest members of society the best idea our government officials can dream up? Maine is one of 23 states investigating welfare “fraud” as if it were the […]
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Dixfield police log
DIXFIELD — The Dixfield Police Department responded to 55 calls during the past two weeks. Arrests * Jeffrey A. Brown, 33, of Coburn Avenue, domestic assault, at 6:41 p.m., Feb. 29, at Coburn Avenue. He was released from the Dixfield Police Department on $600 cash bail. He is scheduled to appear in Rumford District Court […]
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RSU 10 panel to study school building changes
DIXFIELD — A committee tasked with proposing short- and long-term school building changes in RSU 10 will be identified at the school board meeting March 26. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Hartford-Sumner Elementary School. When the board declined to approve a feasibility study for combining Mountain Valley and Dirigo high schools and reconfigure […]
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Dixfield seeking loan for sewer project
DIXFIELD — Selectmen authorized Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky on Monday to apply for a low-interest loan for sewer work. The money would come from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and pay for replacing portions of the sewer main beyond the Webb River Bridge to the Peru bridge. Skibitsky estimated that about $150,000 to $170,000 […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Today’s agenda
Franklin Chesterville: Town meeting, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Temple: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Bethel: SAD 44 Board, 7 p.m., Telstar High School Casco: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center Hartford: Ordinance Committee, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6 p.m., Town Office River […]
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R. Acheson: Keep America a free country
Anyone who has read James Perloff’s book, “The Shadows of Power,” knows that the well-entrenched Council on Foreign Relations seeks to subvert the United States into a socialist and tyrannical world government. According to Perloff, most presidential candidates (winners and losers) are either members of this elite group, or have advisers who are. But there […]
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Rumford selectman seeks public’s help to solve vandalism crimes against couple
RUMFORD — Selectman Jolene Lovejoy is appealing to the public to help police find the person or persons responsible for more than $10,000 damage to vehicles of a local couple and their parents in the past year. Tires on the vehicles of Jen Swett and Scott Provencher, and their parents have been slashed repeatedly and […]
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Scarcelli lawyer says claims made by stepfather, mother in lawsuit lack merit
PORTLAND — ’s mother and stepfather are accusing the Portland Democrat of improperly using money from her low-income housing projects to fund her unsuccessful 2010 gubernatorial campaign. Pamela Gleichman and her husband, Karl Norberg, filed a countersuit against Gleichman’s daughter, Scarcelli, this week in response to the former gubernatorial hopeful’s initial legal complaint against them. […]
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Ludden lists new materials
DIXFIELD — Ludden Memorial Library has announced the following new arrivals. Adult fiction: Taken, Crais; Catch Me, Gardner; Need You Now, Grippando; The House at Sea’s End, Griffiths; Copper Beach, Krentz; Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa, Dobson; Love Finds You in Hope, Kansas, Griffin; Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio, Miller; Private Games, Patterson; […]