MECHANIC FALLS — RSU 16 Adult Education has announced its winter courses. Registration may be completed in person at 129 Elm St. or by mail: PO Box 129, Mechanic Falls, ME 04256. Registration forms may be downloaded at [email protected]. Credit card payments cannot be accepted. Bedbugs: Don’t let ‘em bite…! This presentation is designed by […]
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Poland selectmen hope school bill will pass
POLAND — Town officials are pleased with the wording of proposed legislation intended to improve the process for approving school budgets. LD 1668, whose prime sponsor is state Sen. Lois Snowe-Mello, seeks to prevent the sort of brouhaha that erupted last summer when Poland selectmen refused to pay the town’s July bill from Regional School […]
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Posted inConnections, The Franklin Journal
Central Maine Credit Union recognizes school librarians
LEWISTON — Central Maine Federal Credit Union hosted a reception on Dec. 7 to present donations to Androscoggin public elementary school librarians. This marks the credit union’s 10th year of donating to Androscoggin county public school libraries. Central Maine Credit Union’s president, Vicki Stuart, said, “’Books for Kids’” is our credit union’s signature community project. […]
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Sisters create mural for Mechanic Falls’ library
MECHANIC FALLS — Fill a tree with electric pink leaves. Create a perch for a bigger-than-life blue and yellow macaw. Paint a too-green pasture beneath a blue sky where scarlet and purple dragons duel. For Whitney and Hallie Frost, ages 14 and 11, painting the walls of the children’s section of the new Mechanic Falls […]
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Mechanic Falls seeks traffic signal at Five Corners
MECHANIC FALLS — The Town Council has joined the efforts of Poland’s Board of Selectmen to improve safety at the Five Corners intersection of Routes 26 and 11. On Tuesday councilors signed a letter asking Maine Department of Transportation officials to reevaluate an earlier decision not to install a full traffic signal at what many […]
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Former Minot firefighter pleads guilty to arson; he’s in therapy to address fire-starting issues
AUBURN — An unusual effort is under way to steer back on track the life of a former junior volunteer firefighter who pleaded guilty Thursday to arson in connection with a Mechanic Falls restaurant fire last year. A sentencing date for Joshua Michaud, 20, of Mechanic Falls was set for late June in an effort […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Our View
Plowing over the Constitution? How? asks reader
Here’s a look at what several in our online community had to say about letters to the editor and stories in the news over the long holiday weekend. Regarding a letter to the editor by B. Wilner on the disappearance of America’s middle class Crystal Ward of Lewiston wrote: “Just what is Obama “plowing over” […]
Posted inLetters
L. McCarthy: Representing the county
I wish Beth Bell good luck upon her appointment as Androscoggin County Commissioner. It would have been an honor to be chosen by Gov. Paul LePage, but as an Olympia Snowe Democrat, I knew that I was a long shot among the declared candidates. I appreciate the courtesy shown by the governor’s staff. It was […]
Posted inObituaries
Delmont E. Hill
HAVERHILL, Mass. — In loving memory of our brother, Genie Hill, 78, of Waltham, Mass., formerly of Mechanic Falls, who passed away on Dec. 18, at Merrimack Valley Hospice House. Genie was the oldest child of Gene and Madalyn (Thurlow) Hill. He graduated from Mechanic Falls High School, Class of 1951. After graduating, he worked […]
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Man charged in Christmas Day Rite-Aid robbery
AUBURN — Police arrested a 47-year-old Mechanic Falls man and recovered stolen drugs shortly after the Christmas Day robbery of the Rite-Aid pharmacy on Minot Avenue. John Letourneau was held on $1,000 cash bail Sunday night at Androscoggin County Jail. A man had entered the store and handed pharmacy staff a note demanding drugs, police […]