Let’s do something about it!

To the Editor: I was looking up how many homeless people there are in the U.S and it upset me to learn that there are more than 650,000. I also learned that of those 650,000, some 35,000 of them are veterans. Citizens should write to their Representatives and Senators to see what Congress is doing […]

A moment to remember

Photos by Geff Inman of Woodstock taken in Eustis.  

Letting nature be the teacher: OES students create their own eclipse

  Students around the Hills found ways in the last several weeks to learn why and how the eclipse would happen. These opportunities were not based just on indoor activities, but also outdoor movement-based experiences to help students build a greater understanding of the movement of the sun, moon, and earth. Klaudia MaslowskaAsendorf’s sixth graders […]

Rebecca Richard joins Franklin Journal staff

FARMINGTON — The Franklin Journal is pleased to welcome Rebecca Richard to its staff of writers. Richard comes to us from the South Portland Sentry and Scarborough Leader where she has worked for the past year. A graduate of University of Maine at Augusta, she holds a degree in liberal studies with a concentration in […]

Man charged with Buckfield stabbing

BUCKFIELD — On Monday, April 8, at 9:33 p.m., according to Oxford County Sheriff Chief Deputy James Urquhart, Oxford County Deputies, along with Maine State Police and Oxford Police responded to an address on Sodom Road in Buckfield for a report that an adult male had been stabbed by another male subject following a fight. […]

Learn about Japan’s textile heritage

NORWAY — Travel along as Mary DeLano presents “Threads of Tradition: A Journey Through Japan’s Textile Heritage,” on Thursday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., at Norway Memorial Library, 258 Main Street, Norway. Before Toyota made cars, it made industrial looms for weaving fabric and still does so today. Japan has a rich textile history that […]

Pop-rock blues band at Norway’s UU Church

NORWAY — The renowned pop-rock blues band Beyond Reason will perform at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, April 20, in the Concert Hall of the First Universalist Church of Norway, 479 Main Street, Norway.  Admission is $10, with tickets available at the door and at The Tribune, 430 Main Street, Norway. The first half of the evening […]

A Hidden Gem: The Lovell Historical Society

The Lovell Historical Society is a gem of knowledge and discovery.

Eclipse

The passing of David Sanderson and Arthur B. Hague, Jr.

To the Editor:  Aloha mai no – David Sanderson died last November in an accident while helping a neighbor take down a dead tree. He was a proud New Englander and a keen historian of local Maine history. Raised in Rhode Island, David and his late wife, Cathy, lived on the family farm built in […]