SALEM — A total of 162 individual local and state scholarships amounting to $133,165 were awarded to 52 graduating seniors of the Mt. Abram High School Class of 2014. Forty-five seniors were accepted to post-secondary schools. Evan Andrew Abbott: American Legion Auxiliary Unit 28, Farmington, Bernice Crosby Memorial Scholarship; Donald P. Richards Law Enforcement Scholarship; […]
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Bank Foundation grants $30,000 in local scholarships
FARMINGTON — Franklin Savings Bank’s Community Development Foundation has awarded $30,000 college scholarships to 11 local students. The scholarships are generally $3,000 each, although Madison Area Memorial High School opted to split its scholarship into two this year. The bank awards the scholarships per year to students from nine local schools. The 2014 Franklin Scholars […]
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Old Home Days to be held Aug. 8-17
PHILLIPS — This year’s Old Home Days begins Friday, Aug. 8, and packs each one of the 10 days of celebration with great food, art, contests, train rides, parades and crafts. This is the 57th annual August extravaganza, with volunteers from the Phillips Chamber of Commerce and several area organizations and businesses hosting dozens of […]
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Norma Jean DeRocle celebrates 90th birthday
INDUSTRY — Norma Jean DeRocle, formerly from Ohio, celebrated her 90th birthday at Industry Town Hall with 60 friends and relatives on June 21. Son Michael and Randy Bruce prepared trash can turkey, and wife Eula and Vanessa Bruce, Caroline Giles and others catered the delicious buffet. Greeters were niece Kim Minneman, husband Rex of […]
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Avon man charged with being fugitive from Colorado
AVON — A Franklin County deputy arrested a man Wednesday on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in Colorado, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. Nathan Pierce, 53, who had been staying at a camp on East Madrid Road, is on probation for threatening two people with a baseball bat in Colorado for their […]
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Bowdoin College graduates
BRUNSWICK — During Bowdoin College’s 209th commencement ceremony held May 24, bachelor of arts degrees were awarded to students from 37 states, the District of Columbia and 15 countries and territories. The following students are from the area. Evelyn Sarah Dickinson of Bowdoin graduated with a major in biology and French. Riley McFarlan Eusden of […]
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Mercer woman impaled by stick in Avon ATV accident
AVON — A Mercer woman was impaled by a stick through her jaw Sunday when the ATV she was driving on a trail went up some rocks and rolled. She fell off and landed in some brush, Maine Warden Justin Fowlie said Wednesday. Vicki Dubay, 47, and her passenger were not wearing helmets, Fowlie said. […]
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Phillips woman injured in Avon crash
AVON — A Phillips woman was taken to a hospital by LifeFlight helicopter Saturday morning to a Lewiston hospital after her car went into the oncoming lane on Route 4 and struck a sport utility vehicle, police said. Donna Rensoe, 42, of Phillips was traveling south when her car went around a corner and into […]
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Avon business prefabricating post, beam frame for Norlands barn
AVON — Thirty-six thick, timber frame posts are stacked against a wall in the Maine Mountain Timber Frames workshop on Route 4. Mortise and tenon joinery have been cut into the hemlock posts so they will interlock when the new barn frame is put together at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore. A mortise […]
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Timber frame workshop will benefit Norlands barn raising
AVON — A timber frame workshop will be held on Saturday, May 17, at Maine Mountain Timber Frames. Learn about timber framing and benefit the barn raising at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center. Participants will work on a piece of the Norlands barn through its various stages so it is ready for raising day later […]