The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust (RLHT) recently hosted a Forest Stewards Guild field tour on April 29, 2022. The Forest Stewards Guild practices, advocates, and promotes responsible forest management to sustain the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. Regional foresters, wildlife biologists, landowners, and stewardship professionals gathered at the RLHT’s […]

This year Rangeley Lake ice out was officially declared on May 5, at 5 am. That’s right 5/5 at 5. Thank you to all of those who submitted their entries for the annual Rangeley Highlander 2022 ICE OUT Contest via email, snail mail, dropping off in person at the office, or Facebook. Congratulations to the […]

All persons charged are innocent until proven guilty 04/16/2022 1057hrs, Deputy Cusson responded to a report of a medical emergency at a residence on West Kingfield Road in Kingfield. 1343hrs, Deputy Cusson investigated a complaint from parent in New Hampshire of a missing person from a residence on School Street in Phillips. Cusson located the […]

What follows was found on Page 5 of the May 7, 1896 edition of the RANGELY LAKES. It appeared in the weekly column entitled “With Sportsman”. It shares the early results of an annual rite of spring in the region, Ice Out Fishing. I especially enjoyed the reported successes of the lady anglers of the […]

The Rangeley Friends of the Arts announce the schedule of events for summer 2022 at the RFA Lakeside Theater located at 2493 Main St in Rangeley. This year the Annual Fundraiser hosted by Jackie and Gary Patnode will present “Center Stage Motown Revue” a tribute to the Motown era with the music of The Temptations, […]

FARMINGTON, MAINE- Franklin Memorial Hospital (FMH) will once again host Summer Scrub Club, a health careers exploration camp, from June 20-23 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The camp is designed to introduce participants to a wide variety of careers available in health care and is open to all students who will be entering grades 8-12. A sampling […]

The 2022/2023 Town Warrant Public Hearing that was held on April 11, 2022 started with donation requests from the area non-profits.  The total donation amount requested by the twenty-two non-profits is $224,711.00.  The three largest requests were from the Chamber of Commerce at $50,000.00 (also asking Plantations for a total of $7,500.00), the Rangeley Public […]

Erika Roy, Sales, Wedding & Event Manager at Saddleback was stunned by the response of Saddleback’s first ever King of the Mountain Hill Climb on Saturday, April 23rd. Originally, the idea to have the first ever snowmobile hill climb competition at Saddleback was proposed by Director of Mountain Operations Manager Jared Emerson in the beginning […]

Each year the Smalls to the Wall event is a bit different. For example, sometimes there is still plenty of snow on the ground. This year, the eighth year of the event, it was a sunny, comfortably cool, but definitely spring day. Naturally, any event that takes place outdoors depends on cooperative weather. In this […]