Monday Bethel: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Crescent Park School Buckfield: Holiday-Light Decorating Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Dixfield: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Farmington: RSU 9 Board of Directors, 7 p.m., Mt. Blue Campus, The Forum Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: […]
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News and information about Franklin County from the Sun Journal.
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Children learn the joy of giving at Avon event
AVON — Each December, Franklin County area children are offered the chance to shop for their families and buy affordable items donated by local business and individuals. On Saturday, dozens of youngsters attended the Children’s Christmas Shopping Event at the Avon Town Office. Volunteer organizer and elf Joyce Potter said a local resident, the late […]
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'Christmas through the Ages' held in Phillips
PHILLIPS — Children put shoes next to the fireplace long before they hung their Christmas stockings. Decorations were handmade, and candles and lamps lit homes. On Saturday, more than 100 guests toured five sites during “Christmas Through the Ages” to hear the history and stories of Christmas and have a taste of the sweets and […]
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Dressing for the weather — 1800s' style
LIVERMORE — Staying warm today means dressing in the latest technology — you know those battery-powered long Johns for which you control the temperature with your smartphone? If the Washburn family, who lived in the 1800s, could see us now, they’d mock us — or be jealous. But for all this technology, when Western Maine […]
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Early ice-fishing in Livermore
A group of Winthrop fishermen take to the ice on Bartlett Pond in Livermore on Saturday for their first day of ice-fishing. One man, who chose not to be identified, was pleased with the early season. He said the ice was about 8 inches thick. “Usually, we don’t fish until Jan. 1.” The group was […]
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Learning through play
Kaitlynn Snow, 3, of Strong and Katelyn Pond work on an art project Thursday at Foster Career and Technical Education Center in Farmington. Pond is a senior in the early childhood education program offered at the campus. The program offers a half-day, low-cost preschool experience to local children three days a week. (Dee Menear/Franklin Journal) […]
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Livermore Falls agrees to patch sewer main
LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen approved spending $5,000 Tuesday to have two patches put in a sewer main that is in disrepair and starting to collapse on lower Depot Street. The 100-year-old clay pipe connects on each end of a cement pipe that runs under the railroad tracks between manholes at the intersection of Pleasant Street and […]
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Brewer man's bail lowered in sexual abuse case in Jay
FARMINGTON — A Brewer man accused of sexually abusing a girl younger than 15 in January 2017 in Jay had his bail reduced to $5,000 cash Wednesday in Franklin County Superior Court. Adam B. Carrick, 36, had been held on $10,000 cash bail since Oct. 15 at the the Franklin County Detention Center in Farmington. He was […]
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Selectmen vote to change Strong’s banking practices
STRONG — Selectmen have agreed to make changes to the town’s banking practices. Selectmen finalized a review Tuesday night of the town’s banking expenses, interest rates and services. The 1.50 percent interest rate that Franklin Savings Bank offered beat Bangor Savings Bank’s offer of 1.15 percent. Services are similar and the change would take effect […]
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Franklin County approves $1.16M budget for unorganized territory
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a proposed $1.16 million budget for the unorganized territory for 2019-20, county Clerk Julie Magoon said. The action followed a public hearing on the proposal, which is $33,152 more than the current budget. The majority of the increase is due to increases in snow removal contracts, […]