The Jay – Livermore Falls Hunting Club got off to a great start. Beginning with archery season, Larry Lord bagged a 140 lbs, 6 pts buck! He also bagged a 108 lbs. male bear during bear hunting season. Another lucky bear hunter, Matt True shot a 242 lbs male bear during bear season. Youth Day […]
Karen Beaudoin
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times
Telling Santa her Christmas wishes
Addison Milligan, 5, of Rumford tells Santa her wishes for Christmas following Friday’s annual Santa Claus parade, sponsored by the Mexico Firemen’s Relief Association. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times)
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Posted inEncore, The Franklin Journal, The Rangeley Highlander
RFA to present annual ‘Walk to Bethlehem’ event
RANGELEY — The Rangeley Friends of the Arts will present the 38th annual “Walk to Bethlehem” on Sunday, Dec. 9. This unique event starts with caroling through the snowy streets followed by a family-oriented Christmas presentation of music, dance and drama highlighting the talent of local young people, and ends with a traditional nativity pageant […]
Posted inFranklin, The Rangeley Highlander
Franklin County commissioners approve loan guidelines
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Commissioners approved guidelines Tuesday for a loan program aimed at increasing jobs and assisting businesses. Commissioners have said they hoped to see applications grow for a revolving loan program that grants loans of $10,000 to $100,000 for job growth and business expansion. During a recent debate over tax increment financing, commissioners […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Ten to study municipal needs
OXFORD — Ten residents have been appointed to an Ad Hoc Facilities Committee to study the current state and adequacy of municipal buildings, including the Town Office, which this week sustained flooding of at least 25,000 gallons of water in the lower level gymnasium from heavyrains. Asselin reported to the board at its November 15 […]
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Oldest newspaper moves to another old home
NORWAY — It has taken some 150 years for the Advertiser Democrat to find a new home. But this fall, the offices of the Advertiser Democrat moved from its long-time home at 1 Pikes Hill to set up shop in an equally historical and arguably much more beautiful building. The former office, which once bustled […]
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Oxford OKs prelim application for subdivision
OXFORD — The Planning Board approved a preliminary application for an eight-house subdivision as complete, waiving a requirement for a soil and erosion control plan. Tom Kennison of R&D Sales, asked the Planning Board at its November 8 meeting for the approval of completion and a waiver, for the eight-house, single family, subdivision on Scenic Heights […]
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Oxford contracts for sluice design
OXFORD — The Board of Selectmen have OK’d an $8,900 contract with MBP Consulting of Portland to design a new gate for the east sluice at Thompson Lake Dam. The action, taken at the board’s November 15 meeting will, in part, allow Myron B. Petrovsky of MBP Consulting of Portland to design the gate concrete […]
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Briefly: Region
Meeting features program on balsam fir CHESTERVILLE — The North Chesterville Extension Homemakers will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Town Office on the Dutch Gap Road. Guest speaker, Dave Fuller, agriculture and non-timber forest products professional at the Franklin County Cooperative Extension Office, will be presenting a program entitled “Identifying […]
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Mahoosuc Community Band to present Christmas concert
BETHEL — The Mahoosuc Community Band will present a Christmas concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the West Parish Congregational Church. The band will play “Echoes From the Battlefield” arranged by Darren Jenkins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The arrangement features familiar songs from that era. […]