AUBURN — A headline on Page B1 of the City edition Tuesday should have stated that Auburn City Council voted to raze the Great Falls Performing Arts Center. It was an editing error.
2011
Posted inObituaries
Merwin D. Bean Jr.
SPRINGHILL, Fla. — Merwin D. Bean Jr., 79, died at home in Springhill, Fla., on Dec 30. He was born Aug. 29, 1931, in Livermore Falls, to Merwin D. Bean Sr. and Clara Putnam Bean. He belonged to the retirement club of IP. Merwin enjoyed his family, being at his camp on Canton Lake in […]
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Posted inFranklin
Ski lift to be repaired
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — A headline on the front page of Tuesday’s paper should have stated that Sugarloaf ski area plans to repair its ski lift this season. It was an editing error.
Posted inEncore
Realtors will kick up their heels for Habitat for Humanity
AUGUSTA -— Busy real estate brokers are taking a break from buying and selling properties to cram ballroom dance lessons into their days. A group of more than a dozen local Realtors, their relatives and affiliate members are learning to foxtrot and swing dance in preparation for a showcase to benefit Habitat for Humanity. The […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Interviews set for town manager candidates
LIVERMORE FALLS — A town manager search committee reviewed 35 applications for the position and decided to interview six of them, select board Chairman Bill Demaray said Monday. Three of those interviews will be conducted beginning at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, at the Treat Memorial Library auditorium. The others will be interviewed on Monday, […]
Posted inMaine
Ethics panel denies access to names in Cutler Files case
LEWISTON — On Tuesday, the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics partially denied a series of Freedom of Access Act requests filed by Maine media outlets regarding the Cutler Files hearings before the commission last month. The Sun Journal, the Kennebec Journal, the Bangor Daily News and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network filed FOAA requests with […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Pike buys police equipment, Mars appointed chief civil deputy
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to sell Sheriff Dennis Pike a cruiser light bar, radio and siren for $500. The police equipment, which is at least nine years old, is on the 2001 Cherokee Jeep that Sheriff Dennis Pike uses. Pike will own the cruiser as well, once new cruisers come in. He […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Request for county services being drafted
LIVERMORE FALLS — A selectman told fellow board members on Monday that a request for proposal for contracted police service is being developed. Selectman Alphonso Barker is chairing a committee that is seeking a contract figure from the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department to provide police coverage to the town. Voters approved a measure in June […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Milton Township man sentenced in arson, domestic violence
PARIS — A Milton Township man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday for arson, criminal threatening and domestic violence assault. Steven Roberts, 47,was charged with attacking his girlfriend, Wendy Povelite, last fall and burning down the house in Rumford where they were living. The house belonged to her father. Assistant District Attorney Richard Beauchesne said […]