LIVERMORE FALLS — Bailey Brothers Ford is helping to raise money for the Spruce Mountain Sports Bleacher Fund by encouraging people to test-drive Fords. Bailey Brothers Ford is bringing Ford Motor Co.’s innovative Drive One 4UR School program to the community in an effort to raise up to $8,000 for Spruce Mountain High School. For […]
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Envirothon team takes awards
JAY — The Jay High School Envirothon team of Beth Moore, Lexi Deering, Sam Hutchinson, Isaac Couture, Kristy Macomber and Jacob Roy went to the Canon International Envirothon in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, recently. The team took 20th overall out of 54 teams. They took seventh in forestry (78/100), 13th in estuaries (83/100), 17th in […]
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New district filling vacant positions
LIVERMORE FALLS — Regional School Unit 73 is in the process of filling several essential leadership positions following resignations, Superintendent Bob Wall said Tuesday. In July, RSU 73 directors accepted resignations of district Media Specialist Cathi Howell and Spruce Mountain Adult Education Director Carrie Castonguay. Both took jobs in other school systems. When the board […]
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Wind turbine equipment to go through road construction area
LIVERMORE FALLS — Two-hundred-foot-long trucks are set to haul wind turbine blades, towers, generators and related equipment through the downtown to Roxbury beginning Friday, Aug. 19. The equipment will be hauled over a period of about 50 days for the $125 million Record Hill LLC wind farm project in Oxford County. The trucks are expected […]
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Bail amended for arson suspect
FARMINGTON — A District Court judge set bail at personal recognizance and supervised release under a pretrial service agreement on Monday for a Jay woman accused of setting fire to her mobile home on Friday. Judge Valerie Stanfill also prohibited Amanda Morey from possessing incendiary devices at the state’s request. State fire investigators arrested Morey, […]
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Accident closes Route 4 in Jay Monday afternoon
JAY — Police have closed Route 4 in North Jay while reconstructing the scene of an accident where a New Hampshire man’s motorcycle was rear-ended by a van driven by a Sumner man on Monday afternoon. The motorcyclist had either slowed down or stopped north of the intersection of routes 4 and 17 when he […]
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Jay graduate sets her sights on biomedical engineering career
JAY — Bethany Moore has known since she was 11 that she wanted to do some kind of medical research as a career. In middle school, she added engineering to her goals. When the 2011 Jay High School salutatorian heads to Boston University in September, she plans to major in biomedical engineering and minor in […]
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Two charged in theft case
JAY — Two men from Swanville face theft charges after police said they stole chain saws and tools from a foreclosed home on Belanger Road. Detective Richard Caton IV arrested Andrew Dusoe, 25, and Brett Armstrong, 25, on Thursday on one count each of felony theft by unauthorized taking and transfer, Caton said Friday. Caton […]
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Mobile home owner charged in arson case
JAY — A local woman whose home on BJ’s Lane was heavily damaged by fire Thursday afternoon is accused of setting fire to the same home Friday morning. State fire investigator Edward Hastings IV on Friday arrested homeowner Amanda Morey, 27, on a charge of arson, said Sgt. Joel Davis of the State Fire Marshal’s […]
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Pratt to leave RSU 73 district to lead mid-coast school system
LIVERMORE FALLS — RSU 73 Assistant Superintendent Sue Pratt of Strong has been hired to lead RSU 40/SAD 40 in Knox and Lincoln counties in the Midcoast area. Pratt served as superintendent of Regional School Unit 36 in Livermore Falls and Livermore. Before that, she was assistant superintendent of Mt. Blue Regional School District in […]