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Home at Last

Half a lifetime ago at the age of 30, I sabotaged my life and ran away from my New Jersey home. I gave away my business booking comedy clubs, said goodbye to friends, wrote a short note to my parents saying I would be back in a few days, climbed into my red 1990 Hyundai, […]

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RSU 78 Board Update

August 2022 The RSU 78 Board of Education met on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Chair Mary Richards reminded the board of the upcoming board workshops for new board member training. Superintendent Georgia Campbell shared that K-2 has selected a new reading program and that the program will be piloted in the 2022/2023 school year and […]

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Rangeley Health and Wellness Receives Grant for Senior Art Program from the Maine Arts Commission

Rangeley Health and Wellness has received a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts for its Help Adult Respite Care (HARC) program. The Creative Aging Grant supports the collaboration between artists and organizations in developing high-quality participatory arts programs for older adults. With these […]

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A Life Saved at the Farmington Fair

Farmington, Maine – On Sunday’s opening day of the Franklin County Agricultural Fair, Healthy Community Coalition’s (HCC) mobile health unit staff assisted with saving a life from a drug overdose. HCC staff immediately responded when a panicked individual approached them asking for Narcan to help a person who had overdosed. Naloxone (brand name Narcan) is a medicine that can reverse an overdose from opioid medications, heroin, fentanyl or other drugs. Ashley McCarthy of HCC and […]