PHILLIPS — A couple and their pets escaped their burning home at 81 Toothaker Pond Road before dawn Tuesday, losing it and all their belongings to the flames. The cause is undetermined because of the extensive damage, Deputy Fire Chief Jim Gould said. The two-story home was insured. The couple, whose names were not available Tuesday, […]
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Inching closer to ice fishing
Mike Timberlake, left, Steve Benedetto, center, and Jack Driscoll, all of Livermore, chat in Timberlake’s ice shack on the side of Brettuns Pond in Livermore on Monday. Timberlake has not put the “Brettun’s Pond Casino” out on the ice just yet, but that has not stopped him and his buddies from running the wood stove and […]
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Second Farmington man in Kingfield fatal accident dies
FARMINGTON — The driver of a car that lost traction Nov. 27 on Route 27, north of Kingfield, and skidded into the path of a tractor-trailer truck, has died. “The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is sad to report a second fatality as a result of the November 27 car (versus) tractor-trailer that occurred on route 27 […]
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This week's agenda
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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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 […]