FARMINGTON — Local Rotarians are planning for this year’s local edition of the “Price Is Right” game show, complete with a showcase showdown and many smaller prizes, drawings and opportunities to win. The theme is “New England Sports.” The club’s ninth annual event will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at Mt. Blue […]
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UMF celebration features Kripalu instructed workshops
For more information on Bhavani’s yoga sessions, visit her website at http://bhavanilorrainenelson.com/. FARMINGTON — A joyful celebration of all that the University of Maine at Farmington and the local community have accomplished together is the basis for four days of workshops featuring yoga, meditation and sound. The public is invited to attend the events free […]
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Warming Center guests share talents for raffle basket
FARMINGTON — Guests at the Warming Centers are busy preparing an array of “crafty items” for a basket raffle to be held at the upcoming Warm Hearts-Warm Homes dance to benefit the Farmington Area Ecumenical Ministry heating oil assistance fund. The dance will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the North Dining Hall of the […]
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Invited to list FARMINGTON — Farms and area businesses that sell locally grown or produced products are invited to list their businesses in the 2012 edition of “Mabel’s Book: Western Maine’s Guide to Farms and Farm Stands.” Now in its sixth year of publication, the book features information on more than 80 producers in Oxford, […]
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Judkins named director of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
FARMINGTON — Peter L. Judkins has been elected as a Class A director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Judkins is president and CEO of Franklin Savings Bank, a mutual savings bank, headquartered in Farmington. He was elected with two others, Roger S. Berkowitz, president and CEO of Legal Sea Foods, and Gary L. […]
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Judkins elected to Fed Reserve Board
FARMINGTON — Peter L. Judkins has been elected as a Class A director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Judkins is president and CEO of Franklin Savings Bank, a mutual savings bank headquartered in Farmington. According to the Federal Reserve, the First Federal Reserve District comprises all of New England except Fairfield County, Conn. […]
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Franklin County arrest log
FARMINGTON — The following were recently booked at the Franklin County Detention Center: Justin T. Turner, 29, Wilton, domestic assault, domestic criminal mischief and three counts of violation condition of release, Jan. 30, no bail listed as of Feb. 1, Wilton Police Department.
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School buses: Safest form of student travel
Tuesday afternoon, Franklin County dispatchers called Maine State Police and other emergency responders to every parent’s nightmare: a school bus accident. This one, on the snow-covered Farmington Falls Road, involved a head-on collision with a fully loaded tractor-trailer. Of the 14 Mt. Blue students and the district bus driver on board, only a few suffered […]
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Four improv teams will battle for laughs in “Lovers’ Quarrel”
FARMINGTON — This February, Farmington residents will celebrate Valentine’s Day with traditional candlelight dinners and chocolate hearts — and a brutal improv-comedy competition. On Saturday, Feb. 11, three western Maine improv groups will take to the Mt. Blue High School stage to square off against one another and Rhode Island’s Laughletics in “The Lovers’ Quarrel.” […]