County commissioners Wednesday recommended the requested $1.5 million sheriff’s department budget and a $792,479 communications center budget.
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Franklin County commissioners OK charity funding hikes in first budget pass
Franklin County commissioners Tuesday recommended that the county fully fund $274,313 in requests they received from social and economic programs, up 11 percent from the current fiscal year, as part of the next budget.
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Coplin Plantation couple draws deer by the dozens at dinner time
Every afternoon, by at least 1 p.m., deer start gathering by the dozen in Harriet and Basil Powers’ front yard in Coplin Plantation, where the couple has been feeding deer for more than 50 years.
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‘Wishes For Ayla’ food drive intended to keep missing toddler in hearts, minds
A food drive is under way this month as part of an effort to draw continued awareness about missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, coinciding with her third birthday on April 4.
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Wilton man sentenced in connection with death of Farmington woman
Scott Kidder, 32, of Wilton, was sentenced to two years’ probation in his connection with the death of Marilyn Rider, 52, who died of a morphine overdose.
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Farmington home taken by flames Wednesday night
Firefighters spent two hours putting out a fire that ripped through a Farmington home Wednesday night.
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Indian professor presents ‘The Real Slumdogs’ at UMF
A film and a lecture presented Wednesday at the University of Maine at Farmington focused on the people who live in the slum featured in the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.”
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Girl hospitalized following Monday accident at Sugarloaf
A 6-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after suffering serious injuries at Sugarloaf Ski Resort on Monday morning, the second one in two days that sent a skier at the resort to the hospital.
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Spring runoff renews perennial concerns over Farmington’s unstable Whittier Road
Farmington’s public works director said his department has heightened concern that the Sandy River will swell and collapse the Whittier Road, or at least damage it enough for the town to close the section as a precautionary measure.
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Bail lowered second time for Wilton man
Roy Gordon, 42, of Wilton, is one of five people charged in connection with the death of Marilyn Rider, 52, who died of a morphine overdose in her Silver Maple Lane home, had his bail lowered to $10,000 in Franklin County Superior Court on Friday.