LIVERMORE FALLS — Roughly 40 residents approved spending up to $650,000 for repairs to the town fire station at a brief special town meeting Tuesday. “I do hope that you folks will vote to have our fire station back so we can get our equipment back in town and stop paying for all these rentals,” Jim […]
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Franklin County dispatchers get 2 percent wage increase
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a two-year contract that gives dispatchers a 2 percent wage increase, retroactive to July 1, 2016. Members of Teamsters Local 340 approved the contract Monday night, Communications Center Director Stan Wheeler said. The action followed a brief executive session. The contract will expire June 30, 2018. […]
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Wilton to seek facade grant funds for downtown businesses
WILTON — The town has been approved to apply for a Community Development Block Grant for facade improvements for downtown businesses, Town Manager Rhonda Irish told the Board of Selectpersons on Tuesday. Irish filed a letter of intent last month and will apply for the $150,000 grant before the April deadline, based on the number […]
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Rangeley Snodeo ready for sledders, spectators
RANGELEY — With plenty of snow and a flawless weather forecast, this year’s 28th Rangeley Lakes Snowmobile Club is prepared for snowmobilers coming to town for fast-paced competition and family fun. Snodeo weekend is the club’s largest fundraiser, according to events committee Chairman Jonny Wakefield. “We do a lot of work to organize this weekend, […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Tuesday Bethel: Water District, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Jay: Budget workshop with selectmen, town manager, department heads and Budget Committee, 6 p.m., Spruce Mountain High School library North Jay: North Jay Water District Board of Trustees, 6 p.m., Jay […]
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Exploring white fragility through Hollywood on Martin Luther King Day
FARMINGTON — A Bates College professor addressed about 90 people at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service on white people’s inability to tolerate racial stress. “Are white people really that fragile?” asked Charles Nero, professor of rhetoric, African-American studies and American cultural studies at the Lewiston college. His speech honoring the late Civil Rights Movement leader […]
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RSU 9 students to visit China
FARMINGTON — Seven or eight high school students and two teachers will spend April vacation in China, meeting students and learning Chinese culture. The group from Mt. Blue High School will leave April 12 and return April 20. The Regional School Unit 9 board approved the trip Jan. 10. Directors approved a student trip to China […]
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Face Time: Morgan Spencer — fashioning a business career
When Morgan Spencer graduated from Mt. Blue High School she was determined to get out of rural Maine to live in a city. The Wilton native went off to Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston, for her freshman year. She majored in fashion merchandising. She thought she would love it. She hated […]
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Slippery roads cause Rumford driver to crash in Wilton
WILTON — A Rumford woman had a scary ride Thursday morning when her vehicle slid on icy Route 2 near the Pond Road, police said. Makaila Conley, 21, was traveling east at about 6:30 a.m. in a 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer when it slid into the opposite lane, Wilton officer Ethan Kyes said. She overcorrected, hit […]
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Farmington man faces child pornography charge
FARMINGTON — A local man was arrested Thursday on a charge of possession of sexually explicit material of a child under 12 years old. Alex Starbird, 23, was arrested by Farmington Detective Darin Gilbert following an investigation that began with a complaint from the Maine Computer Crimes Unit in August 2016. Based on the complaint, […]