RUMFORD — A Bethel man is organizing a cleanup around the Falmouth Street area Friday morning and filming it for a new TV show called “Inside Maine’s Outdoors.” Tony Bennett, best-known for his TV show, “Down East Dickering,” on the History Channel, said he’s picking a town in each of Maine’s 16 counties for a cleanup. […]
August 2017
Posted inFranklin
Franklin County accepts bids for repairing three bridges
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to accept three bids totaling $48,000 to remove wooden decks from three bridges and replace them with cement tops. The three bids — the only ones received — were from Dirigo Timberlands Management of North Anson. The money will come from the Unorganized Territory Roads and Bridges Reserve Account. […]
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Lewiston man loses murder appeal
Maine’s highest court Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of a Lewiston man found guilty in the 2013 brutal slaying of 20-year-old Romeo Parent. A lawyer for Michael McNaughton, 29, argued in May before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that the judge presiding over his 2014 trial mistakenly failed to block from a jury statements McNaughton […]
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Wilton accident sends four to hospital
WILTON — Police said a two-vehicle accident Tuesday at Routes 2 and 156 sent a driver and three passengers to the hospital to be checked for injuries. A 2012 Jeep Cherokee driven by Ashley Maher, 21, of New Hampshire was stopped at the stop sign on Route 156, also known as Depot Street, around noontime, […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: Hit me with your best shot, yo
Boy. If I had a nickel for every person who has asked for my thoughts on the Pat Benatar concert last week, you know what I’d have? I wouldn’t have a nickel, that’s for sure. Nobody gives a hang about my penetrating thoughts on Benatar, but I’m going to tell you anyway, and do you […]
Posted inEncore, sj-web
Gospel concert series starts Aug. 6
WILTON — East Wilton Union Church announces the schedule for their 2017 Annual August “Concerts on the Lawn” series. The free concerts are held at 6 p.m., Sundays in August on the East Wilton Union Church lawn, 1306 Main St. The public is welcome. Some chairs are provided, but attendees may bring their own lawn chair or blanket […]
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Local filmmaker shoots 'The Damned One' in Lewiston-Auburn
AUBURN — Sun peeked through the treetops in thick, rolling woods behind Beech Hill Road that on this afternoon were standing in for woods in the pre-Civil War South. Half a dozen actors in period costumes shot, strangled, cussed and brawled, brushing dried leaves off after each take just to do it all over again. […]
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Wilton woman crushed by train recovering at home
WILTON — Mindy Sprague likes a challenge and she’s in the midst of one of the biggest of her life. Sprague, 34, who works in the Bakery Department of the Farmington Walmart, is home recovering from devastating injuries from being crushed by a train June 28 at a Sappi Fine Paper train yard at its Somerset […]
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Oxford man gets driving award
JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Landstar System Inc., a worldwide provider of integrated transportation management solutions delivering safe, specialized transportation services, has recognized Steve Hill of Oxford as a Two Million Mile Safe Driver. During his career with Landstar as an independent truck owner/operator, Hill has driven more than two million consecutive miles without a preventable accident. […]