Two former Franklin County sheriff’s deputies are anticipated to plead to conspiracy to commit honest services fraud. Two other charges to be dismissed if judge accepts plea agreements.
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Franklin Memorial Hospital will continue obstetric service, deliver babies if license changes
Hospital representatives intend to apply for Critical Access Hospital status and reduce its bed count from 65 to 25, if license changes.
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Preliminary flood damages exceed disaster threshold
Franklin, Oxford and Androscoggin counties reported millions of dollars’ worth of needed repairs.
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Recent flooding could have temporarily extended seasonal growth for fiddleheads
Dave Fuller, formerly with University of Maine Farmington Cooperative Extension spoke about the recent flooding and the effect it could potentially have on the seasonal harvest of ostrich fern fiddleheads.
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Weekend storm brings power outages and flooding to central Maine
Across central Maine, where rainfall totals reached 5 inches in some areas from the strong weekend storm, high water levels in the Kennebec River watershed brought flood warnings and washed out roads, along with downed trees and power outages.
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Homeless in Maine: New policing protocol shifts focus to assisting homeless people who need help
Local police agencies are grappling with a new protocol established by the Office of the Maine Attorney General that calls on authorities to not charge homeless people with minor crimes but instead focus on connecting them with service providers who may be able to help.
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Maine Fiddlehead Festival in Farmington to feature fiddleheads, local agriculture, music
Maine Fiddlehead Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at the University of Maine Farmington.
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University of Maine at Farmington may slash most of its part-time faculty
After laying off nine members of its full-time faculty last spring, the university is eyeing a plan to eliminate ‘most adjunct faculty at the undergraduate level.’
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Rescources council working to bring Atlantic salmon back to Sandy River
FARMINGTON — The Natural Resources Council of Maine is gearing up this year with an initiative to bring the endangered Atlantic salmon back to Sandy River and collaborate with Maine legislators in crafting a trail development bill. “We’re going to be doing a lot more in the county,” Regional Outreach Coordinator Marc Edwards told the […]
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Farmington boy charged in connection to online shooting threat at Mt. Blue Campus
Farmington police issued the 15-year-old a summons on felony charge of terrorizing. He was released to his parents, Farmington police Chief Kenneth Charles said.