WILTON — Police are investigating the theft of a full tank of oil from a vacant residence on Lyle Hall Road. The property owner notified police Tuesday that his 250-gallon tank of No. 2 two fuel oil was empty, police Chief Heidi Wilcox said Wednesday morning. The loss is estimated at about $800. Lyle Hall […]
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Wilton board signs resolution to get natural gas line
WILTON — Selectmen agreed to sign a resolution Tuesday endorsing the town’s interest in securing natural gas service. Other towns, including Jay, Livermore Falls and Farmington, have signed similar resolutions, Selectman Thomas Saviello said. Requests for proposals were recently sent to four natural gas companies. Summit Natural Gas and Maine Natural Gas responded that they […]
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Wilton board reviews two business applications
WILTON — The Planning Board will review applications for two new small businesses at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the town office. Travis Nguyen is seeking a permit for a nail salon at 346 Main St., Code Enforcement Officer Paul Montague said. The downtown site is in Bill Fletcher’s building, next to Nancy Merrow’s […]
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Wilton man sentenced on felony assault verdict
FARMINGTON — A Wilton man was sentenced Thursday in Franklin County Superior Court for assaulting his neighbor, who beeped his horn daily to say goodbye to his daughter. Earlier this month, a jury found Dean Martin Jr., 38, guilty of felony assault for punching Hutch McPheters in October 2012. The men lived across Lothrop Street […]
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Wilton man sentenced on drug charge from November death
FARMINGTON — A Wilton man pleaded guilty Thursday in Franklin County Superior Court to furnishing morphine and received a three-year suspended sentence and two years of probation. Scott Kidder, 32, was one of five people arrested in February on felony drug charges related to the death of a Farmington woman. The charges were brought after […]
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Wilton student works on project for local Fire Department
WILTON — A classroom assignment to do something for the community inspired a Wilton seventh-grader to consider the needs of a local fire department. While most students paired up to do something for local nursing homes or the animal shelter, Johnathan Warren, 13, remembered the firefighters “who get out there and help us in fires […]
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String Quartet performs Haydn LEEDS — The Amarantos String Quartet will perform Franz Josef Haydn’s “The Seven Last Words of the Cross” in concert at 7 p.m. Friday, March 29, at the Leeds Community Church, 123 Church Hill Road. All are invited. Admission is by donation. Haydn is sometimes called the “father of the string quartet” […]
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Komodos, martial arts and boxing, academy opens in Wilton
This month, he opened his third karate school, Komodos, at 351 Main St. in downtown Wilton, where students ages 5 to 99 can learn martial arts and boxing. For more than a year, he’s taught karate and boxing at satellite schools in community centers in Newport and Windham, he said. Now living in New Sharon, […]
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Franklin County softball league signups set
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Softball League is preparing for the season with signup sessions scheduled in area towns. * Farmington: April 8 and 9, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Mt. Blue High School cafeteria. * Jay: March 26 and 28, 6 to 8 p.m. at the AYS Building. * New Sharon: April 1and 2, […]