State Rep. Sawin Millett and state Sen. Lisa Keim running for the vacancies.
Lincoln Plantation
Posted inConnections, The Franklin Journal
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust acquires 230 acres on Magalloway River
OQUOSSOC — The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has acquired 230 acres on the Magalloway River in Lincoln Plantation. Nestled in the hills between Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge and the Dartmouth Second College Grant, the parcel contributes to more than 28,000 acres of functionally contiguous land that dominate the headwaters and shorelands of the Magalloway, Dead […]
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Reward offered in Canada Lynx shootings
LINCOLN PLANTATION — The Maine Warden Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife investigators are offering a reward of up to $5,500 for information on the illegal killings of two Canada lynx in northern Oxford and Aroostook counties. In a news release, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife announced Canada lynx shootings occurred on […]
Posted inFranklin
Maple Mills starts sugaring in Northern Oxford County
WILSONS MILLS — With roughly 25,000 taps and 150 miles of tubing draining sap from maple trees down Aziscohos Mountain to a sugarhouse, Nick Staley is getting little sleep these days. Staley and his wife, Melanie, of Lancaster, N.H., are in the first year of operating the family business, Maple Mills. It is off Route […]
Posted inFranklin
Fire destroys northern Oxford County camp
LINCOLN PLANTATION — Fire destroyed a camp on the east shore of Aziscohos Lake in northern Oxford County late Sunday afternoon, Rangeley Fire Chief Tim Pellerin said. It took the Rangeley Fire Rescue Department about 50 minutes to get to scene on Raspberry Lane, traveling 33 miles up Route 16 to Wilsons Mills and seven […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Veterans being hosted for fishing trip to Aziscohos
RUMFORD — Steve Bronish of Livermore Falls is learning firsthand about the power of social media. A simple posting on his Facebook site, Trolling with an American Veteran, “went from me offering to take a veteran out fishing to now, we’re up to nine boats and 14 veterans,” he said. Bronish, who works at Catalyst […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Wilsons Mills overcomes communication barrier
LINCOLN PLANTATION — A few summers ago, firefighters from Wilsons Mills were scouring the back roads for a motorcycle accident but, cut off from the rest of the world by the mountains that lend the area its rugged beauty, were unable to locate the wreck. It was just one of the many trade-offs required to live in […]