FARMINGTON — Selectmen received an update Tuesday night on the Front Street culvert replacement project. Town Manager Richard Davis said he had met with Dirigo Engineering and engineers from Fairpoint. “FairPoint has agreed to relocate their cables,” Davis said. “They’ll fan them out on top of the culvert rather than have them go through as […]
Feb. 13
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Farmington board adds funding articles to warrant
FARMINGTON — Selectmen voted Tuesday night to include two funding articles to the March 24 town meeting warrant. The first asks Franklin County to continue to fund regional economic development and social services. The vote was 3-2. Selectmen Michael Fogg, Stephan Bunker and Scott Landry were in favor. Selectmen Joshua Bell and Matthew Smith were […]
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Lincoln and eloquence
Oxford County’s GOP has its Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday February 9, Franklin County’s Republicans have theirs the following Saturday. It’s 209 years since his birth on February 12 in Hodgenville, Kentucky and a good time to look at the huge impact of his speeches. Ronald Reagan was not up to his standard, no president before or since […]
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A Week of Weather (Feb. 4-Feb. 10, 2018) By Dennis C. Pike FARMINGTON — This week, the maximum temperature was 36.5° and the minimum -17.4°. The average temperature was 13.0°. Total precipitation was 1.71 inches. Last year at this time, the maximum was 45.5° and the minimum was -1.7°, with an average temperature of 15.7°, […]
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Snowstorm keeps most motorists off roads in greater Franklin County
LIVERMORE FALLS — The greater Franklin County area has surpassed last February’s snowfall total, according to at least one weather observer measuring the nor’easter that blew in Sunday and Monday. For the second time in a week, businesses, schools, town and state offices and other entities closed because of a snowstorm. As of Monday afternoon, 12.2 […]