Plant sales not only yield funding for community programs, they allow growth of traditions and learning.
2021
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
RSU 9 officials present proposed $38.9 million budget at public hearing
Although the overall budget is set at $38.9 million, with an additional $477,406 for adult education, it will cost taxpayers across the 10 towns in the district $13.7 million, a $397,300 increase, or 2.99%, to current spending.
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Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Farmington approves ordinance amendments
At a Special Town Meeting attended only by town officials Tuesday night, May 25, four amendments to Farmington ordinances were approved.
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Project begins to open Farmington stream to Atlantic salmon
The $3 million project will remove Walton’s Mill Dam and improve the town’s only waterside park.
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
AT&T cellphone tower permit affirmed by Weld Board of Appeals
The Board of Appeals voted the appeal was timely, but in all other matters supported the Planning Board’s latest decision.
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Bowdoin College preps for in-person graduation ceremony
As many as 467 students at Bowdoin College are set to graduate on Saturday. Unlike last year and despite the COVID-19 pandemic, college officials have decided to hold an in-person commencement ceremony. Though the Center for Disease Control has eased COVID-19 mask rules, all students, faculty, staff and guests are required to wear face masks […]
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Nearly 900 Bath shipbuilders vaccinated through on-site clinics
Bath Iron Works employees have received the COVID-19 through on-site vaccination clinics offered by the Maine National Guard.
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More jobless getting aid than in past even as cutoffs loom
Now, more people – and a higher proportion of the jobless – are receiving unemployment aid than in any past recovery, according to data that extends to the late 1960s.
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Maine House speaker stands ground on COVID mask mandate
A policy requiring that people entering the State House wear face coverings remains, even with mask mandates lifted in other places.