FARMINGTON — Howard S. Jackson, 89, a longtime resident of Intervale Road, Jay, died Sunday morning, Nov. 27, at Orchard Park Nursing Home, where he had resided for the past two weeks. He was born Oct. 15, 1922, in Jay, the son of Howard P. and Lizzie M. Purington Jackson. He was a graduate of […]
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Mental health consumer council seeks members
FARMINGTON — Evergreen Behavioral Services has launched a consumer council to gain clients’ perspectives of the delivery of mental health care in order to improve access, treatment and safety of individuals served by the mental health system. Jennifer Chretien, EBS board member and chair of the council, is seeking consumers of mental health services and […]
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Safe Voices honors community partners
FARMINGTON — On Oct. 20 Safe Voices held its annual meeting to celebrate a year of accomplishments and recognize the work of community partners throughout Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties. This year three community members and organizations were honored as Community Heroes. Jerry Cayer, executive vice president of Franklin Community Health Network, responded to the […]
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Laughter will help warm hearts, area homes
FARMINGTON — Western Maine comedians Teachers Lounge Mafia will present “Stale Milk & Sour Cookies IV,” a weekend of irreverent holiday improv, on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2-3. For the past three years, Teachers Lounge Mafia has welcomed in the spirits of commercialism, family stress and eggnog with its own peculiar brand of improv and […]
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Small business Saturday gives a piece of the pie to local merchants
RUMFORD — Fighting for a piece of the holiday sales pie known as Black Friday, small local businesses are seeing an increase in customer traffic. Less chaos, better hours and unique service are things shoppers couldn’t get at big-box stores, local business owners said. “I think there is a misnomer that you have to go […]
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Food, craft sale FARMINGTON — Franklin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold a food and craft sale from 8 a.m. until sold out on Friday, Dec. 2, in the hospital’s Bass Room. Emblem Club fair FARMINGTON — The Farmington Emblem Club 460 will host a craft fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. […]
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Holiday wreath sale
FARMINGTON — The Farmington Historical Society will hold its seventh annual Holiday Wreath Sale on Saturdays, Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, at the Titcomb House on Academy Street. Society members with some help from the Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity at the University of Maine Farmington have been busy decorating the hundreds of wreaths that will […]
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Titcomb Mountain holding 16th annual holiday auction
WILTON — The Titcomb Mountain Holiday Auction is going to be held at a new site this year. Calzolaio Pasta Company will play host to the fund-raising event which will be held Friday, Dec. 2, in their function room. The auction, which is sponsored by the Farmington Ski Club and the Titcomb Ski Club Educational […]
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For one veteran and his family, help came too late
We realize hindsight is painful, but local officials need to ask whether every legal tool was used to help Justin Crowley-Smilek, a war veteran who died Saturday in a burst of gunfire in a police station parking lot. The goal would be to better help families who clearly see trouble coming but find themselves unable […]
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Police seek more info from public on murder suspect
FARMINGTON — State police are interested in talking to anyone they haven’t talked to already who had contact with Juan A. Contreras this past summer, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said Tuesday. Contreras, 27, of Waltham, Mass., is charged with murder in the death of Grace Burton, 81, of Farmington who was […]