The company, which also is building the Bingham Wind Project, began construction this week of meteorological test towers in the Misery Ridge area.

A town official says the proposal to change the position of tax collector from elected to appointed is not related to a lawsuit against Claudia Viles and $438,000 in missing town money.

The layoff of 300 employees at the Androscoggin Mill will hit the area’s economy, officials say.

An organizer of the festival said he plans to look into whether a beer garden is possible, although town officials say there is not enough time to change state laws that residents voted on in a referendum decades ago.

Kate Drummond shows uses Native Americans put nature to during Madison-Anson Days.