FARMINGTON – Downtown retailers are reporting brisk sales today, traditionally the biggest shopping day before Christmas. A short snow storm ended around 2 p.m., and shoppers could be seen strolling along the…
PHILLIPS – A 40-year-old man was shot in the left thigh by his 19-year-old nephew Thursday while hunting with five other family members. Craig Mitchell, 40, of Phillips, was shot at approximately…
FARMINGTON – Pulling off a Thanksgiving dinner for 350 people takes some practice and a lot of help. Fortunately for Rufus and Charlene Cox of New Sharon, they have both. The couple…
FARMINGTON – Selectmen gave the green light on hiring an architectural firm for up to $12,000 to look into the feasibility of building a new police station at the former site of…
FARMINGTON – MSAD 9 is proceeding with a variety of cost-cutting moves, the district’s superintendent said Tuesday evening, following last week’s announcement by the state that subsidies to all school districts would…
FARMINGTON – The Air National Guard has announced that it will be holding a public meeting next Tuesday to discuss a proposal to lower the minimum allowable altitude for training missions in…
Numerous accidents have been reported in the towns of Wilton, Farmington, Industry, Kingfield, New Sharon, New Vineyard and Chesterville as the area’s first snow continued to fall through this morning. A week…
FARMINGTON – Lowe’s, the second largest hardware chain store in the U.S., wants to open a store here. Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc. has submitted plans for a 138,893 square foot store, surrounded…
JAY – Jay Elementary School has just kicked off their anti-bullying campaign. The program began on Oct. 31 with an assembly in which Principal Chris Hollingsworth talked to the student body about…
CHAMPIONSHIP TILT: Elms College, (Chicopee, MA) teammates Malakie Berry (51) and Ronald Thomas (23) double-team University of Maine at Farmington’s Pat Howell, Saturday afternoon, in Dearborn Gymnasium. Elms forced UMF into 25 turnovers while…