CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Special Olympics Maine’s Winter Games opened Monday with hundreds of athletes decked out in red and white scarves, handmade by volunteers around the country. “Everyone gets one, including our bus drivers and volunteers,” said Lisa Bird, director of public relations. She held up one donated by Shirley Deremer of Port Orange, Fla., […]
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News and information about Franklin County from the Sun Journal.
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Farmington housing complex seeks more funding to replace 3 apartment buildings
FARMINGTON — The 82 High Street housing development recently received a $500,000 grant and a $540,000 loan to start Phase 3 renovations. The next step is an application for a Community Development Block Grant of up to $500,000 for the $1.54 million project to raze three apartment buildings and replace them with three modular buildings, […]
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Franklin County commissioners, jail officials debate need for jail cooks
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Commissioner Gary McGrane said he was unable to find anything in the state documents which states that the Department of Corrections considers a jail cook or cook supervisor essential personnel on a storm day. Franklin County commissioners voted 2-1 on Jan. 4 to give compensation time to hourly, essential nonunion employees […]
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Jay to hold municipal budget workshop
JAY — A workshop will be held Monday, Feb. 1, to review proposals for the 2016-17 municipal budget. It will be held at 5 p.m. at the Town Office. The Board of Selectpersons, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere, department heads and library representatives will review department and library budgets. The Budget Committee has also been invited […]
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This week’s agenda
Monday Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Hartford: Food Bank, 4 p.m., Town Hall Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall Jay: Selectmen and Budget Committee, 5 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Board of Library Trustees, 3 p.m., Public Library Tuesday […]
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Editor’s note:
The paper mills in Western Maine have been a way of life for more than a century, but as the workforces shrink the mill towns are being forced to reinvent themselves. In this sometime series, we take a look at the mill towns of Rumford and Jay in 2016, their history, their reality and their […]
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A look back at the history of Verso’s Androscoggin Mill
JAY — With the local community still reeling from the 300 jobs lost at Verso’s Androscoggin Mill late last year, people are wondering how much longer the paper mill will survive. The mill is an institution in the community, providing good jobs for people in the region for more than 50 years. Two of those who […]
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Nine applications received for Mt. Blue Middle School principalship
FARMINGTON – Regional School Unit 9 has received nine applications for Mt. Blue Middle School principal, Superintendent Tom Ward said. Members of the school board’s Administrator Evaluation Committee will review the applications Tuesday, Feb. 2. Principal Gary Oswald, who has been principal for 18 years, plans to retire when his contract expires at the end […]
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Farmington hospital president-CEO announces retirement
FARMINGTON — After seven years at the helm of Franklin Community Health Network and Franklin Memorial Hospital, President and CEO Rebecca Arsenault announced her retirement, effective Feb. 29. “It has been a wonderful experience leading this incredible team of professionals,” Arsenault said in a release. “But we are at a place of envisioning a new future […]
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Farmington forum to focus on Maine’s heroin epidemic
FARMINGTON — A forum exploring Maine’s heroin epidemic will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, in Lincoln Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington. The public is welcome. Leaders in the community will join moderator Woody Hanstein to discuss how heroin has become such a problem and what the community […]