LIVERMORE FALLS — The Regional School Unit 73 board of directors gave concept approval Thursday for the Hollandstrong Community Foundation Proposal Project to improve the Spruce Mountain High School athletic facilities. Deborah Roberts of Wilton, representing the Hollandstrong Community Foundation, said the foundation has already done significant fundraising for the project. The first phase will be upgrading […]
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Walmart: lower taxes? Oxford: No!
OXFORD — Retail giant Walmart has asked the Board of Assessors to reduce its real estate valuation by more than $3.5 million. The board said “no.” At the April 19 Board of Selectmen’s meeting, the board, which also acts as the Board of Assessors, voted 3-0, to turn down the request of the applicant, Walmart […]
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Beware of Chopped Romaine Lettuce
AUGUSTA – Food safety professionals at the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry are joining their counterparts around the country to urge caution regarding chopped romaine lettuce following reports of a multi-state outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has resulted in multiple illnesses and hospitalizations in a growing number of states. Although there have been no […]
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Earth Day cleanup in Farmington
Barb Larson watches as Brooke Larson feeds a baby goat on the lawn of the Pierce House in Farmington before participating in the 5th Annual Earth Day Cleanup on Saturday. Volunteers picked up trash in parks and along roadways across town. (Pam Harnden/Livermore Falls Advertiser) The 5th Annual Earth Day Cleanup was held in Farmington […]
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Community budget hearings to begin
PARIS — As the SAD 17 Budget Committee continues its work to develop a Fiscal 2019 school budget, residents will get their first view of the document when community budget hearings get under way next week in the eight school district towns. Superintendent Rick Colpitts unveiled his proposed $40,046, 613 Fiscal 2019 budget at April […]
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20h Annual March for Violence-Free Communities
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response is holding its 20th annual March for Violence-Free Communities on Thursday, April 26th. Participants will gather at the gazebo in Meeting House Park on Main Street in Farmington (across from the Superior Courthouse) at 5:30 PM. Attendees are invited to carry signs, make noise, and walk in solidarity to raise awareness of […]
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Judge will decide by Friday whether Portland asylum seeker can compete in poetry contest
A Deering High School junior who is in Maine seeking asylum from Zambia will find out by Friday whether he can participate in a national poetry recital contest that begins Monday. A federal judge in Portland on Wednesday heard arguments in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Allan Monga, 19, who has been banned from […]
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Barbara Bush, wife and mother of presidents, champion of literacy, dies at 92
HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said. She was 92. Mrs. Bush brought a grandmotherly style to buttoned-down Washington, often appearing […]
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Five men scramble to safety after truck went into the Pleasant River in Windham
Five men had to scramble out the windows of a pickup truck after it slid off an icy stretch of road and plunged into the Pleasant River in Windham on Monday afternoon. “By the grace of God, we made it out alive,” 84-year-old Kenneth Brann of Windham, one of the passengers, said in a telephone […]
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Lewiston Planning Board OKs 31-lot development on Hogan Road
The Lewiston Planning Board this week unanimously approved Chase Custom Homes & Finance’s new Sanctuary Estates subdivision at 131 Hogan Road.