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May 27, 2009 / Community & Local News

More flags fly — patriotic summer decor expands

By David Hart Irregular Staff

KINGFIELD - - The Festival of the Arts Downtown Committee has been busy during the winter season and added more flags and new streets to its festive flag campaign. The committee has added new flags to School and also Curve streets. More...

Commercial Road work to commence soon

By David Hart Irregular Staff

KINGFIELD - - The selectmen in the Town of Kingfield reviewed a Commercial Road upgrade packet assembled by the town's Road Commissioner, Bruce White, last Monday, May 18. More...

Celebrate survivorship, remember, fight back

Relay For Life

FARMINGTON -- The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life celebrates the lives of hundreds of local residents who have survived cancer, while offering the hope of finding a cure. More...

Cafe Murder in Stratton

By Laura Dunham Special to the Irregular

STRATTON — Over 100 people gathered at the Stratton Community Building on Friday night, May 15, for a dinner and play to benefit the Stratton PTC. Member Lynn Clark said that about $900 was realized from the dinner, play and raffle. More...

First aid class offered

FARMINGTON — Registrations are now being accepted for a first aid course being offered at Franklin Memorial Hospital. The standard first aid course will take place on Thursday, May 28, from 5 to 9 p.m. in the Bass Room. More...

Mt. Blue Area Garden Club annual meeting set

FARMINGTON -- Mt. Blue Area Garden Club will hold its annual meeting on June 2 at noon, at the United Methodist Church on the Farmington Falls Road. The Methodist men will serve a turkey lunch with the fixings and dessert. More...

'The Way We Get By' garners another award

AUGUSTA — The documentary film "The Way We Get By" has won the Golden Rock award for Best Documentary at the 3rd Little Rock Film Festival. More...

Gordon penalized by DEP

AUGUSTA -- According to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Tracy Gordon of Avon violated Maine's Erosion and Sedimentation Control law by displacing soil or other earthen materials without taking measures to prevent the unreasonable More...

Daughters of the American Revolution

News from the Skowhegan Chapter

By Linda Miller Special to the Irregular

NORTH ANSON -- Eunice Farnsworth-Ruth Heald Cragin Chapter, D.A.R. held its May 9 meeting at the home of Laura Miller on Union Street. More...

Seeking for a surrogate

Ric Hocking, of Carrabassett Valley, watches three young squirrels clamber around him. "We were doing yard work and suddenly we were ambushed by these little critters," Lori Hocking wrote in an email. "They followed us around all day... More...