WILTON — SeniorsPlus, the designated Area Agency on Aging for Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties, will hold a public hearing on its 2025-2028 Area Plan that outlines the organization’s vision to serve the older and disabled adults populations over the next four years. The public is invited to participate. Comments also are welcome via email […]
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Temple seeks public input on community resilience priorities
TEMPLE — Temple community members are encouraged to participate in a public workshop on Sept. 23 to inform the town’s enrollment in Maine’s Community Resilience Partnership, a program that helps communities reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to extreme weather, flooding, and other climate impacts through direct support and grants of up […]
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UMF Art Gallery open for fall season
FARMINGTON — The UMF Art Gallery is excited to open its fall 2024 season with “Colloquy: Nature Vision Expression,” featuring the creative works of Brigitte Keller and Antoinette Prien Schultze. The artwork will be on exhibit from Sept. 19 through Oct. 25, 4-7 p.m., and is free and open to the public. The gallery will […]
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Movie Review: ‘Reagan’
Nobody is going to mistake cut-rate biopic “Reagan” for a great movie. At best, it’s a pretty standard greatest-hits collection of important moments in the former President’s life. At worst, it’s a laughably underfunded production made by people who, for whatever reason, want to sell America on Ronald Reagan in 2024. But the movie is […]
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Kids’ Book Review: ‘The Hundred Dresses’
The Hundred Dresses By Eleanor Estes Illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Caldecott Medalist The Hundred Dresses is a Junior Fiction, short, 78-page read with black and white illustrations. Some editions have color tinted illustrations. Although it was published in 1944, it is a new, worthy read for those who have not read it. In 1945 […]
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Dixfield-based school district asked to livestream, record meetings again
Last spring the board stopped livestreaming and recording meetings in preparation for its $14.28 million budget for the 2024-25 school year.
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Two Farmington businesses support Police Department’s active shooter training
Franklin Savings Bank donated $2,000 and Kyes Insurance chipped in $1,641 to cover costs for active shooter training held earlier this year in Farmington.
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Andover fills vacant selectman position
Wayne Rundlett received 24 write-in votes Tuesday during the write-in ballot election at Town Hall.
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Farmington man pleads guilty to possessing sexually explicit material of children under age 12
Michael C. Matie, 44, was sentenced to serve one year of a three-year sentence followed by four years probation.
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Donations cover costs of Farmington active shooter training
Donations from Franklin Savings Bank and Kyes Insurance covered costs associated with an active shooter training earlier this year attended by 65 law enforcement personnel from around the state.