As the election grows closer, I cannot help but be overwhelmed with ideas, opinions, and thoughts all intertwined together to help me create a strategy for success in Franklin County. As Sheriff…
ORONO – University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a webinar about ways to address the physical strain of gardening, noon–1 p.m. Aug. 31. “Pain-free Gardening,” led by Maine AgrAbility specialist Ellen…
FARMINGTON – When a group of librarians and archivists recognized the Covid-19 pandemic as something other than a chance to finally try out all of those homemade granola recipes, they saw an…
WILTON – Jerald “Jerry” D. Cerra, 71 of Wilton, Maine died unexpectedly Friday, Aug. 14 of natural causes. He was born in Stockton, California on Oct. 6, 1948, the only child of…
WILTON – Residents approved new ordinances regulating retail marijuana, exploding targets and aboveground conduits at the annual town meeting Monday evening, as well as approving a $3.4 million budget. Voters met outside…
FARMINGTON – Caroline B. Smith, 95, of East Dixfield, went home to Heaven, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. She was born June 19, 1925 in Ridlonville, the daughter of Lisco & Mona Blood…
ORONO – Gardens created to attract essential pollinators are the focus of a new pollinator-friendly garden certification available from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers program. Pollinator-friendly gardens provide…
“We’d fill it,” the three words of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when asked what the GOP would do if a High Court vacancy occurred in the last year of the President…
WILTON – Residents will gather in the parking lot of the former Western Maine Development building at 6 p.m. Monday evening to set the town budget and decide on a series of…
If you count lawn signs on rural roads in western Maine, you’ll find Trump-Pence placards barely outnumbering “Stump Grinding,” “For Sale,” “Clean Fill Wanted” and “Fresh Eggs.” By that measure the next…