To the Editor: I am writing as a Concerned Mainer to elaborate on Project 2025, or simply the transition plan should the Republican presidential candidate win this election. My concern is for the environment we live in as an integrated family on what has become an overused and poisoned planet. In June of 2023, a […]
September 2024
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Randy Gauvin believes in Maine
To the Editor: Nothing has more influence on the future of Maine than the performance of our educational system. The priorities of that system can be illusive to some people. Not to Randy Gauvin, candidate for our house district 75. He recognizes that Maine’s Technical High Schools offer a meaningful career milestone to students hungry […]
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Support Randy Gauvin
To the Editor: Please vote for Randy Gauvin for Maine State Representative for District 75, of Farmington and Chesterville. My vote is in support of Randy in this key role as he is an honest man who displays integrity. I have witnessed these behaviors in the thirty plus years I have known him and then […]
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Mt. Blue boys dominate in home XC meet
FARMINGTON — The Mt. Blue High School boys cross country team turned in a dominating performance in a 5-team home cross country meet on Friday, Sept. 6. Henri McCourt of Mt. Blue took first place. After Owen Card of Lincoln Academy placed second, Mt. Blue had the next four runners to cross the line. Luke […]
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Garden club hosts 2024 scholarship winner
FARMINGTON – Members of the Mt. Blue Area Garden Club were delighted to welcome Faith Maurais to its August local garden tour. An outstanding 2024 graduate from Spruce Mountain High School, Faith was awarded our club’s annual merit scholarship in recognition of her commitment to environmental conservation and community service. Faith grew up in Jay, […]
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SeniorsPlus to hold meeting on 4-year plan
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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Sports on TV: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
(All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, Sept. 13 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 — AFL Finals: Hawthorn at Port Adelaide, Semifinal 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 — AFL Finals: Brisbane at Greater Western Sydney, Semifinal AUTO RACING 5:25 a.m. ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Baku City Circuit, Baku, Azerbaijan 8:55 […]
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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 […]