OAKLAND — With proposed school budgets falling like dominoes in referendum votes, school districts across the state are learning the hard way that their budgets are facing more rigorous challenges from residents focused on keeping local property taxes as low as possible.

OAKLAND — With proposed school budgets falling like dominoes in referendum votes, school districts across the state are learning the hard way that their budgets are facing more rigorous challenges from residents focused on keeping local property taxes as low as possible.

On Tuesday, the Board of Selectmen approved a warrant for a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Community Center on Middle Street.
Two items on the warrant would amend zoning ordinances to allow more commercial activity in more Farmington areas.

CHINA — The school board of Regional School Unit 18 voted unanimously to support a flat-funded budget for the upcoming school year. A schedule of budget meetings leading up to an Oct. 2 referendum vote for the district’s five towns was also established during the board’s meeting Wednesday night at China Primary School, attended by […]

CHINA — A debate over a change in how students in the district are educated took center stage during Wednesday night’s Regional School Unit 18 meeting.

The Regional School Unit 18 school board will try to interpret what the rejection of the district’s school budget — for the second time — by voters means, and where to take the budget from here when it meets tonight.

FARMINGTON — A court date of Oct. 2 has been set for Ron Hoffman, the Rumford-based attorney who is accused of phoning in bomb threats to two Wilton schools in March.

FARMINGTON — An eroding riverbank that threatens a secondary road in Farmington is now at the point “where we start to have serious concerns,” according to one town official.

OAKLAND — A move to freeze property taxes in Oakland got a boost when town officials verified that petitioners have gathered enough signatures to be included on November’s ballot.

In May 2011, wolf hybrids in the state of Maine became the subject of a planned extinction, when a new law required all the animals to be registered, micro-chipped and neutered to prevent reproduction.