STRONG — Students in instructor Graybert Beacham’s fifth-grade class offered the Regional School Unit 58 board, staff and audience an opportunity to appreciate their months of practice and lessons at their performance at the Strong Elementary School on Thursday evening. The performance included six short pieces that demonstrated the students’ understanding of timing, tempo and […]
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Wilton planners consider permit and zone change for Route 2 lot
WILTON — The Planning Board will consider approving a permit for construction of a storage building on Routes 2 and 4 at its meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Town Office. A lot next to Dutch Treat has been cleared and owner Miguel Ibarguen of Bowley Brook Maple Inc. is asking for […]
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Board approves early holiday closures
LIVERMORE — The Board of Selectpersons voted Monday to approve early closures of the Town Office for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Christmas Eve is on a Thursday this year and the office is usually closed on Wednesdays. Selectperson Megan Dion said that Christmas Eve morning is usually busy. “Tons of hunting and fishing […]
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Game wardens charge Fayette, Jay, Livermore males in deer slayings
FARMINGTON — Four teens have been charged with shooting four deer and leaving them to die in Franklin and Androscoggin counties in April, Maine Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald said in a news release Wednesday. Wardens charged Zachary Black, 19, of Jay, Kyle Elliott, 19, of Fayette, and two 17-year-old males from Livermore with one […]
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Police ID woman killed in Farmington collision
FARMINGTON — Police Chief Jack Peck on Wednesday identified the woman killed in a head-on collision Tuesday evening as Tacy Taylor, 59, of Farmington. The reason her 2003 Ford Windstar van crossed the centerline on Farmington Falls Road and collided with a Dead River Co. oil tanker is still under investigation, he said. The 2007 […]
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Jay man pleads not guilty to federal embezzlement charge
FARMINGTON — A Jay man pleaded not guilty Friday in a Portland court to a felony charge of embezzlement from an organization receiving federal funds, according to U.S. District Court documents. Timothy P. Gallagher, 46, an ex-construction project manager for Stanford Management LLC, is accused of embezzling nearly $80,000 from a federally-funded program between about […]
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Wood chip truck overturns; Chesterville driver extricated
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Police said a Chesterville man was extricated from a truck loaded with wood chips that overturned and brought down electrical wires on Route 27 Wednesday afternoon. The accident is still under investigation and charges are pending. Speed was a factor, Carrabassett Valley police officer Rick Billian said Thursday morning. Joel McMichael, 30, […]
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Woman killed in Farmington crash
UPDATE: Farmington police say Tacy Taylor crossed center line in fatal collision FARMINGTON — Two vehicles collided Tuesday night on Farmington Falls Road resulting in one fatality and a fuel spill. According to Police Chief Jack Peck, a 2003 Ford Windstar driven by a 59-year-old Farmington woman was traveling east when her car crossed the lane […]