KINGFIELD – The historic Herbert Grand Hotel is under new ownership once again with the recent purchase by Sugarloaf Mountain. The 105-year-old building which looms over Main Street will start a new…
SALEM — The MSAD 58 school board approved the budget for fiscal year 2023 during their budget meeting on Tuesday, April 26. The board needed to approve a budget Tuesday night to…
FARMINGTON – The RSU 9 school board met last night and reviewed the final proposed budget draft presented by Superintendent Christian Elkington for the 2022–23 fiscal year. Four significant, plus several small…
NEW VINEYARD – A local man has been charged with three counts of felony sexual assault following a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office investigation. John E. Mills, Jr., 43 of New Vineyard, has…
JAY – Residents of Jay approved a $5.5 million budget by ballot Tuesday. That number represents an increase of $216,159 and does not yet include contributions to the RSU 73 and county…
FARMINGTON – Aidan Wright, a Farmington resident and cadet at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, has been named a Goldwater Scholar from a competitive pool of 1,242…
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office weekly report for April 16-22, 2022: (All persons charged are innocent until proven guilty.) 04/16/2022 1057hrs, Deputy Cusson responded to a report of a medical emergency at a…
Briana Desanctis is an avid outdoorswoman and writer from Farmington, Maine. In 2015, she hiked the entirety of the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail on her own and has since hiked and paddled thousands…
RANGELEY – The U.S. Border Patrol arrested 22 people in two separate incidents in Wilton and Rangeley late last week. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol agents assisted a…
FARMINGTON – A collaborative stakeholders group has been formed to develop plans for the Teague World War One Memorial on Route 27. The Franklin County Commissioners approved an initial $20,000 in American…