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Clark provides brief budget summary

MSAD #58 Board of Directors

By David Hart Irregular Staff

SALEM -- Members of the school board met last Tuesday to hold its Public Hearing on the 2009/10 budget. Superintendent Quenten Clark gave a brief overview of the $10,157,642 budget which appears to be up roughly $300,000. More...

Impressive trucks roll through villages

By David Hart Irregular Staff

KINGFIELD -- TransCanada's shipment of its first phase of the 44-turbine project has begun arriving. Twenty-two of the turbines will arrive over the next month coming from the Searsport Marine Terminal. More...

Arts & Entertainment

Music & arts festival better than ever

Kingfield POPS

KINGFIELD — Saturday, June 27, music will fill the air as the Kingfield POPS kicks off the summer and its seventh season. More...

Arizona Rose to perform free concert

FARMINGTON — Music on Main, a free summer concert series at the gazebo in Meeting House Park beginning it second year, will feature Arizona Rose (Sandy Waite-Haskell & the Rich Ric Band) on Tuesday, June 16. More...

Help choose Mrs. Kingfield

Kingfield Festival Days

KINGFIELD — The Kingfield Festival Days committee is looking for suggestions as to who people think should be honored by being crowned Mrs. Kingfield at this year's annual event. More...

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Obituaries - Free Access

Stephen R. "Steve" Bull

1955-2009 — He will be remembered for his quick wit, gentle spirit and compassionate heart

PORTLAND — Stephen R. "Steve" Bull, 54, of Temple, died unexpectedly of natural causes on Saturday evening, May 30, 2009 at Maine Medical Center, Portland, surrounded by his loving family. He was born Jan. More...

Lucille Colburn Oliver

1921-2009 — She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother

FARMINGTON — Lucille Colburn Oliver, 87, of Phillips died unexpectedly at Franklin Memorial Hospital on Thursday evening, June 4, 2009. She was born Nov. 4, 1921 in Farmington, a daughter of Harold and Cora M. (Coombs) Colburn. More...

Henry E. Thomas Jr.

Memorial Graveside Services

RANGELEY — Memorial graveside committal services for, Henry E. Thomas Jr., of Rangeley, will be held, 12 p.m., Saturday, June 27, 2009 at the Evergreen Cemetery in Rangeley with Father Paul Plante, officiating. More...

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Sports & Outdoors

Sugarloaf Golf Club slated to open June 18

CARRABASSETT VALLEY -- The Sugarloaf Golf Club, consistently ranked as one of Maine and New England's premier golf courses for the past 24 years, will kick off the 2009 golf season on Thursday, June 18. More...

Golf teams are filling up

FARMINGTON — Organizers are urging those interested to register now for United Way of the Tri- Valley Area's 15th Annual Golf Classic June 18 at Sugarloaf Golf Club and receive a free round of golf valid through 2009. More...

Baseball, softball post season underway

By David Hart Irregular Staff

WESTERN MOUNTAINS - - The regular season for high school baseball and softball is now behind us and Mt. Abram and Rangeley sent three teams to the playoff hunt. Mt. More...

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Western Mountain Activities - Free Access

Western Mountain Activities

EVERY WEDNESDAY FARMERS' MARKET — 3-6 pm, front Narrow Gauge Realty, Main St., Kingfield. EVERY FRIDAY SANDY RIVER FARMERS' MARKET — 9 am-2 pm, Better Living Center parking lot, Front St., Farmington. More...

Rangeley Lakes & Sandy River Railroad

Western Maine's famous "two-footers," the narrow gauge trains that serviced northern Franklin County back in the good old days, are alive and well in Phillips and have begun running once again. More...

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Transfer station 'pay-per-bag' concept triggers debate

By David Hart Irregular Staff

KINGFIELD — The first order of business coming from a Kingfield-New Portland Transfer Station Board meeting last Monday had to do with taping meetings. More...

Karen Henderson awarded

The Courage to Grow Award, the most prestigious achievement award given by Central Maine Community College in Auburn, was presented to Karen Henderson of Phillips recently at MSAD #9 and MSAD #58's Adult & Community Education Graduation and Awards Ce More...

New assistant to look at road equipment

By David Hart Irregular Staff

KINGFIELD - - The selectman in Kingfield last Monday accepted a bid from Pav- Mat who provided a proposal for the Commercial Road project and other projects in town. More...

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

By David Hart

What do you like most about the new Babe Ruth 13-year-old league in Franklin County, the North Franklin Cats? More...

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