RANGELEY — As part of its Summer Artist’s Workshop Series, Saddleback Mountain will host two two-day precious metal workshops Aug. 20 to 23 using the medium of silver precious metal clays. “Earrings — Easy to Elegant” will be held Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 20 and 21, and “Bracelets — Bangles, Linked and Charmed” will take […]
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Webster to speak on Everest adventures
RANGELEY — Ed Webster will present “My Storm Years on Everest,” a photographic, personally-narrated PowerPoint lecture, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, at the Rangeley Public Library. In 1988 Webster, American mountaineer, achieved and survived the impossible. With three partners, he ascended a new, never-before-attempted route up Mt. Everest’s most dangerous isolated side in Tibet […]
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Heaven is a place called Phillips Preserve, and you can get there from here
What would a Maine summer be without the chance to get back to nature? Sitting out under the stars while tending a fire nourishes something primal and deep within us, while roasting marshmallows is just proof that there is such a thing as progress. In Maine, we’re blessed with millions of acres of unspoiled wilderness, […]
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Fifteen nonprofits awarded Western Mountains Fund grants
ELLSWORTH/PORTLAND — The Maine Community Foundation’s Community Building Grant Program recently awarded $74,367 in grants to 15 Franklin and Somerset County nonprofits, including the History House Association, which will use the funds to research, develop and conduct walking tours in two historic downtown Skowhegan districts. Other grant awards went to: * Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance, […]
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Steward entered into Rangeley’s Logging Hall of Fame
RANGELEY — The Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum inducted Wendell Steward of Rangeley into the Logger’s Hall of Fame during the Logging Festival on July 27. Begun in 1985, the Logger’s Hall of Fame honors people who have worked in the woods for a significant part of their lives and who have made valuable contributions […]
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Rangeley woman faces drunken-driving charge
RANGELEY — Police arrested a local woman after a passer-by noticed a car parked in the middle of Loon Lake Road late Wednesday. When officer Jared Austin tried to get the woman to get out her vehicle, she pulled a canister of Mace and a Swiss army knife on him, police Chief Dennis Leahy said […]
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Franklin County arrest log
FARMINGTON — The following arrests were recently logged at Franklin County Detention Center: * Edward E. Timler Jr., 39, Jay, violation condition of release, Aug. 8, $400 cash bail, court appearance Sept. 6, Jay Police Department. * Arthur J. Hentschel, 49, Wilton, domestic violence terrorizing, Aug. 8, no bail listed, Wilton Police Department. * Aaron […]
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Mary E. Nile
1914 – 2012 WHITEFIELD, N.H. — Mary E. (Blake) Nile, 98, Littleton, N.H., formerly of Rangeley and Mexico, died Monday, Aug. 6. She was born in Mexico in 1914. Mary is survived by a daughter, Evangeline Dunham of Rangeley; and a son, Clinton Polland of Florida; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
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Rangeley selectmen approve buying police, fire vehicles
RANGELEY — Selectmen approved purchasing new vehicles for the Police and Fire departments at their Tuesday meeting. Police Chief Dennis Leahy sent a letter with the department’s requirements to five auto dealerships in the area. Hight Ford of Skowhegan, which has a 2012 model of the truck needed on its lot, had the low bid […]
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‘Dancing to the Classics’
The trio Tom, Scott & Joe plays music that hearkens back to the time you listened to a transistor radio tucked close to your pillow. Through their music, they bring back memories of dancing in the gym, cuddling with your sweetheart, working on the GTO in the garage. On Monday, Aug. 13, Tom Danforth, Scott Ivers and […]