Angela Varnum and Janice Merrill voted as new Select Board members.
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Posted inElection 2022, Franklin, News, Schools & Education, The Franklin Journal
Voters approve $10.1 million budget for MSAD 58
Voters in Phillips were against the budget by a close margin, 68 to 64.
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Posted inElection 2022, Franklin, Schools & Education
Voters approve $40 million budget for Farmington-based school district
RSU 9’s 2022-23 budget, a $1.13 million increase over the current year, will cost taxpayers across the district’s 10 towns $13.78 million.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2022, Maine, News
Freeport, Durham and Pownal voters approve $37.3 million school budget
Regional School Unit 5’s proposed $37.3 million budget for the upcoming school year was passed Tuesday.
Posted inElection 2022, River Valley, Rumford Falls Times
Andover Selectman Joe Luce retains seat for another 3-year term
The school board retains one incumbent, adds a newcomer.
Posted inMaine, Politics
AG rules that state appointees can’t run for political office
The governor’s office had initially advised at least one Democratic candidate that she would only need to resign if she won based on what it now says is ‘a longstanding, but erroneous, understanding of the law’ that preceded the administration.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Election 2022, Maine, News
Galletta of Durham wins House District 98 Republican primary
Jospeph Galletta will face fellow Orion Breen, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, in the November general election.
Posted inElection 2022, Franklin, News, The Franklin Journal
RSU 78 voters validate $5.2 million budget for Rangeley Lakes Regional School
Rangeley, Dallas Plantation, Rangeley Plantation and Sandy River Plantation voters to keep two-step voting process for three more years.
Posted inElection 2022, Franklin, News, The Franklin Journal
Rangeley elects newcomer, incumbent as selectmen
Ethan Shaffer and Samantha White won election in an uncertified vote.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine
Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race looks awfully familiar
The three candidates vying this year for the district’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives were on the ballot in 2018.