FARMINGTON – Safe Voices has received a $20,000 Safe Housing grant from national animal welfare nonprofit RedRover to ensure the agency’s newest domestic abuse emergency shelter will be pet-friendly. The new shelter,…
JAY – On Monday night, the Jay Select Board discussed a new method to determine the candidate who will be serving as a director on the RSU 73 school board. The person…
FARMINGTON – Budgets requests for additional fire coverage in Salem have been received from the towns of Kingfield and Phillips. Each town requested an additional $20,000 to provide fire protection and other…
WILTON – Tuesday, the Wilton selectboard held a public hearing on water rate increases for the years 2023 and 2024. Town Manager Perry Ellsworth shared the proposed rate increase. In 2023, the…
FARMINGTON – Tuesday, the county commissioners approved the hire of Brad Timberlake as the communications director at the Franklin County Regional Communications Center. Timberlake, 37, lives in Jay with his family. He…
FRANKLIN COUNTY – Due to forecasted weather and unsafe driving conditions, school is cancelled for the day in the following districts: RSU 9 – Mount Blue – cancelled. MSAD 58 – Mount…
FRANKLIN COUNTY – Following concerns and threats at schools across the state, students were kept inside for lunch and recess today, RSU 9 Superintendent Christian Elkington announced in a letter sent this…
FARMINGTON – Students at Cascade Brook School recently celebrated their Fall Festival. With the help of parent and staff volunteers, along with the Cooperative Extension Office and the Healthy Community Coalition, students…
The time change has resulted in two grumpy cats and one unhappy dog who are still protesting the new suppertime routine, a week later. It also left me discombobulated first thing Monday…
PHILLIPS – “Mom, I’m home,” are the words inscribed on the flag case for Sgt. Zelwood A. Gravlin of the U.S. Army Air Forces. On August 1, 1943, during Operation Tidal Wave,…