Stories about Farmington

Auxiliary donates information desks

FARMINGTON — The Franklin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary has purchased two custom made desks built by W.A. Mitchell Fine Furniture to be used by volunteers staffing the information desks in the Franklin Memorial Hospital lobby and in the Franklin Health Medical Arts Center lobby, also on the F...

Franklin Savings launches Octagon House campaign

FARMINGTON — Franklin Savings Bank’s Community Development Foundation has donated $25,000 to the Farmington Historical Society to launch its Octagon House capital campaign. The society is buying the 155-year-old brick house with plans to restore and revive its character.

Farmington still waiting on permit for Whittier Road repair

FARMINGTON — The town still has no permit from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to fix the erosion problem along Sandy River that endangers a section of Whittier Road, Town Manager Richard Davis told selectmen on Tuesday.  Although they'll participate in a review of the W...

Students hosting supper to benefit food closet

FARMINGTON — Students at Mt. Blue Middle School are undertaking projects that benefit others. Several are holding a spaghetti dinner Saturday to benefit the Care and Share Food Closet in Farmington. The dinner is scheduled from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 27 at Trinity United Methodist C...

15th annual March for Violence-Free Communities in Farmington

Members of SAVES and Safe Voices perform a dance called Break the Chains before the 15th annual March for Violence-Free Communities on Wednesday in Meetinghouse Park in Farmington. The dance was part of a flash mob at the University of Maine at Farmington in observance of Sexual Assault Awareness...

Students launch balloon to collect scientific data

FARMINGTON — Sarah Cummings led the countdown Wednesday among fellow students to let go of the high-elevation balloon and attached payloads and sensors at the University of Maine at Farmington's Prescott Field. They expected it to rise 30,000 meters. It didn't take long until it rose...

Farmington woman begins 740-mile canoe journey from N.Y. to Maine

OLD FORGE, N.Y. (AP) — There's still ice on some lakes and ponds but the first paddlers have begun making their way from Old Forge, N.Y., to Fort Kent, Maine. Traveling by canoe, Emma Carlson of Farmington, Maine, and Emily Rooney of Fairfax, Vt., launched Tuesday and plan to complet...

Maine Audubon to offer training on road stream crossings

FARMINGTON — Maine Audubon is hosting a workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25, to help municipal employees, contractors, land trusts, landowners and other groups improve stream crossings to maintain and restore the habitat and economic values of Maine’s tributaries. The wo...

Prescription Drug Take-Back Day planned for Saturday

FARMINGTON — Area police departments are participating in Saturday's statewide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, held in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Agency. The program gives the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially...

Annual march for violence-free communities Wednesday in Farmington

FARMINGTON — The 15th annual March for Violence-Free Communities begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at the gazebo in Meeting House Park on Main Street. The event is hosted by SAVES, Franklin County’s Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services. ...