Tuesday Buckfield: Buckfield/Sumner Solid Waste Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Budget Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Hartford: Ordinance Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Oxford County Commission, 9 a.m., courthouse Sumner: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Sumner: Public hearing on Industrial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance, 7 […]
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Hartford-Sumner Elementary School honor roll
SUMNER — Ryan Wilkins, principal at Hartford-Sumner Elementary School, has announced the second trimester awards. Fifth grade Principal’s award: Jordyn Bennett. First honors: Christian Austin, Nathaniel Cyr, Hunter White. Second honors: Shane Adams, Jenna Doucette, Julia Dow, William Ellis, Mackenzie Heathco, Hannah Shields. Sixth grade Principal’s award: Simon Burch, Norliyana Menes. First honors: Jarrod Todd. […]
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Kim T. Strout
AUBURN — Kim T. Strout, 55, of Sumner, died April 11, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born July 16, 1956, in Newport, Vt. Kim was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She served as the librarian at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn as well as a teacher in various schools in […]
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University of Maine at Presque Isle dean’s list
PRESQUE ISLE – Seven area students at the University of Maine at Presque Isle have been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Highest honors: Kimberly Francis, Auburn; Sarah Taylor, Industry; Emily Moore, Lisbon; Cody Humphrey, New Gloucester; and Vera Abbott, Sumner. Honors: Renee Moore, […]
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Ruth H. Cooper
AUBURN — Ruth Marcelyn Hersey Cooper died April 10, born to George Henry Hersey and Lotta Viola Story. She grew up in both Vermont and Maine. After graduating from Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, Vt., she studied harp in New York City and attended the Juilliard School of Music having studied with the master […]
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Today’s meetings
Franklin LIVERMORE FALLS: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills BETHEL: SAD 44 Personnel Committee, 5:15 p.m., Superintendent’s Office BETHEL: SAD 44 Education Committee, 9 a.m., Superintendent’s Office BETHEL: SAD 44 Policy Committee, 6 p.m., Superintendent’s Office CASCO: No Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting CASCO: Open Space Commission, 7 p.m., Casco Community Center SOUTH PARIS: […]
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RSU 10 panel to study school building changes
DIXFIELD — A committee tasked with proposing short- and long-term school building changes in RSU 10 will be identified at the school board meeting March 26. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Hartford-Sumner Elementary School. When the board declined to approve a feasibility study for combining Mountain Valley and Dirigo high schools and reconfigure […]
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A. I. Eriksson: Promises are empty
Wind projects in towns without protective ordinances may not benefit the people. Towns where wind-generating facilities have been permitted to operate without legal guarantees and adequate enforcement protocols can only trust the multi-million-dollar industries to be fair and safe. The Home Rule Enabling Act, approved by voters and passed by the Maine Legislature in 1970 […]
Posted inOxford Hills, River Valley, The Franklin Journal
Research Night displays everything from Picasso to artillery
BUCKFIELD — The student academic fair at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School wasn’t the usual display of a history project. Scattered throughout four classrooms Thursday night were such diverse displays as a website on the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, a study of Pablo Picasso and his art, creating an energy-free refrigerator, a study of […]