Weld school closing to be discussed Tuesday

WELD – One of the many cost-saving methods recommended over the course of an extremely difficult MSAD 9 budget process was to close Weld Elementary School. Tuesday, voters will be able to…

Two arrested in drug bust

WILTON – Police arrested a Skowhegan man and a Farmington woman early Friday morning, after allegedly discovering a variety of prescription pills in their vehicle. Tammy Daggett, 38, of Farmington and Eric…

Rollover accident injures one

FARMINGTON – A pick-up truck went off the road, rolled over, felling a few trees as it went, before coming to rest down an embankment on Route 43 near the Industry town…

Phillips back in business

PHILLIPS – Voters overwhelmingly decided on Saturday to reopen their town for business. Five times the number of voters were presented with the identical 2008-2009 budget today that 30 residents had refused to vote…

Fairbanks school house opens once again

The Fairbanks Meeting House officially opened Thursday with an open house celebration. FARMINGTON – After nine years of yard sales and silent auctions, the ribbon cutting to officially celebrate the opening of…

UMF student tracks deadly bacteria in Africa

FARMINGTON – A two-person team from the University of Maine at Farmington conducting water quality research in Africa came home last week, after a month of living and working in very challenging…

Kibby wind power project given final approval today

  ORONO — The Land Use Regulation Commission governing committee met today and approved the final construction plan for TransCanada’s Kibby Mountain Wind Power Project. The first such project approved in Franklin…

Parking violation increases

FARMINGTON – A split vote at the last selectmen’s meeting that rejected doubling the $100 fine for the driver who illegally parks in a parking space reserved for the disabled reversed their…