KINGFIELD — Voters approved a nearly flat-funded budget of $839,110 for the 2016-17 fiscal year and elected two incumbent selectmen and a school board director at Saturday’s town meeting at Kingfield Elementary School. The budget was less than one half of one percent over last year’s budget, according to Administrative Assistant Leanna Targett. Two candidates, Johanna Prince […]
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Kingfield man charged with giving teen girls alcohol and pot
KINGFIELD — Police said a local man is accused of giving marijuana and alcohol to two 16-year-old girls at an apartment on Mill Street. Scott Mclean, 24, of Kingfield was arrested Thursday on two felony charges of aggravated furnishing of scheduled drugs and two misdemeanor counts of furnishing liquor to a minor and furnishing a […]
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Kingfield to vote on spending, elect officials
KINGFIELD — Voters Saturday will be asked to elect selectmen and a school board member and to approve the 2016-17 town budget. The meeting will start at 9 a.m. at Kingfield Elementary School. Incumbents Heather Moody and Ray Meldrum are running for three-year Board of Selectmen terms without opposition. Regional School Unit 58 Director Beth Luce […]
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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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Model T club taking the back roads this weekend
KINGFIELD — On Saturday morning, holiday travelers in a hurry to get to campgrounds or cemeteries or cottages on lakes might be startled to see a scene from the early 20th century. The Down East Chapter of the Model T Ford Club of America is having its annual Spring Dust-Off Tour around the lakes and mountains […]
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Selectmen revisit former downtown development project proposal
KINGFIELD — With the town meeting less than a month away, selectmen heard a plea Monday to reconsider their support for a downtown development project. Village Enhancement Committee member Polly MacMichael suggested that former committee Chairwoman Cynthia Orcutt’s proposal should be reconsidered at the June town meeting. In April, Orcutt presented selectmen with a plan to […]
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Kingfield man accused of stealing more than $76,000 from relative
FARMINGTON — A Kingfield man is accused of forging a 90-year-old relative’s signature on several documents and using them to take more than $76,000 from that person’s bank account, police said. Brent T. Adams, 42, was arrested Tuesday on charges of theft by deception and forgery, both Class B felonies, along with a probation violation, […]
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Electrical fire guts barn in Kingfield
KINGFIELD — An electrical fire Sunday morning gutted a small barn on Cedar Street and destroyed its contents, Assistant Fire Chief Fred Nichols said Monday. No one was injured. The barn, owned by Pat Tufts of Kingfield, was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. It stood 500 to 600 feet from the home. About 30 firefighters […]
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Dog Gone it: Small Kingfield company gets its dog vests into Walmart
A Kingfield couple has landed their tick-repellent dog vests in Wal-Mart for a sales test trial in 200 stores across the country. It’s part of a Wal-Mart initiative to stock more Made in America products — and part of the couple’s plan to get Dog Not Gone’s name out there. “We’re definitely excited; we’re ecstatic, […]
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Tractor-trailer rolls, spills wood chips in Kingfield
KINGFIELD — A tractor-trailer hauling wood chips rolled over Tuesday when the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming car on Route 27 near the Carrabassett Valley line, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said in a news release. Cpl. Nate Bean and Chief Deputy Steven Lowell responded to the accident that was reported at 6:04 […]