Hard to believe that it has been four years since Bessey Motors appeared in the American Legion baseball state tournament. The Oxford Hills-based team doesn’t need a reminder and wasn’t about to let the small matter of a play-in game interfere Saturday afternoon. Bessey banged out 14 hits to back the complete-game pitching of Mike […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin Jay: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Bethel: Conservation Commission, 4:30 p.m., Town Office Bethel: SAD 44 Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m., Telstar High School library Bethel: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6 p.m., Town Office River Valley Dixfield: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., […]
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Spirit of America Foundation pays tribute to those in community service
AUGUSTA — Recipients of the 2013 Spirit of America Foundation Tribute for outstanding community service throughout Maine were recognized during an April 18 ceremony at the Statehouse. The 2013 Spirit of America Foundation award recipients were: Androscoggin County Auburn: Ken Blais does a lot for the neighborhood and city besides the annual holiday displays at […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Newry: Public informational meeting to discuss school funding formula, 7 p.m., Grange Hall Paris: Paris Utility District Board of Trustees, 6:30 p.m., 7 C.N. Brown Way River Valley Peru: Planning Board, 5 p.m., Town Office Peru: […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Bethel: SAD 44 Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m., Telstar High School River Valley Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Rumford Library Board of Trustees, 3 p.m., library Rumford: Implementation Committee, 7 p.m., Municipal Building
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin Jay: Special town meeting and selectmen’s meeting, 5:30 p.m., Spruce Mountain High School library Livermore: Board of Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills Buckfield : Fire-Rescue Station Building Project Committee, 5 p.m., Municipal Center Paris: Utility District Trustees, 6:30 p.m., Paris Utility District Waste Water Treatment facility River Valley Peru: RSU 10 board, […]
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Few residents turn out at public hearing
LIVERMORE FALLS — Eighteen residents turned out Monday for a public hearing on local articles that will appear on the ballot on Nov. 5. Voters will reconsider a $197,861 town administrative budget for the third time. It has failed twice before, first in June at the polls, then in July at an open town meeting. […]
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Correction: Mitchell resigned; copy machines farther away
LIVERMORE FALLS — A story on the RSU 73 board meeting published on Page B1 of the Franklin edition Friday should have said Spruce Mountain High School guidance director Terry Mitchell resigned and the board terminated his position. Also, some teachers complained that because of the much longer distance between classrooms now, it is difficult […]
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Wardens focus search for missing AT hiker Geraldine Largay on about 4.2 square miles
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The search for a missing hiker from Tennessee was intensified and concentrated Sunday, but no new clues were found, according to the Maine Warden Service. The service also said the search effort, which has gone on for more than 10 days, would be “extensively scaled back.” As many as 115 wardens and […]