Regional School Unit 9 began examining the future that parents, students and community members envision for the district in a survey and series of interviews.
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Mt. Blue school district fall-term COVID cases exceed 2020-21 total
As positive COVID-19 cases increase in the Mt. Blue school district and Franklin County, the Board of Directors chose to keep the current COVID-19 safety guidelines in place at their Nov. 23 meeting.
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Center for Entrepreneurial Studies receives $51,000 to help address homelessness
The Bjorn Foundation, established by Richard Bjorn of Kyes Insurance, has donated $50,000 to CES’ “Making Home Possible” initiative to provide housing-insecure youth with affordable tiny homes. The initiative’s most-sizable donation so far will fully fund the first tiny home and then some.
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Changes OK’d for Phase I of Farmington High Street project
Another 580 feet of sidewalk and six more streetlights will be added to the first phase of the project, eliminating a second bid process on the work.
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Mt. Blue Campus in COVID-19 ‘outbreak status,’ state says
The Maine CDC said there were nine positive cases in one week at the Farmington site.
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Livermore Falls man pleads guilty to driving ATV drunk involving crash in Farmington
A charge of intentional failure to report an ATV accident personal injury or death was dismissed in a plea agreement.
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Mobile library coming to Franklin, Oxford, Somerset counties
Twice Sold Tales owner Amber Stone is renovating a camper to promote reading.
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Milk market sours for 4 organic dairies in Franklin County
The loss of market could have a profound effect on other dairy producers, agriculture as a whole and local communities.
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Norlands uses the history of poverty as a lesson for the present
Historically, poverty and the common people consumed by it were overlooked in the history books. Not at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore.
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UMF professor and students make important fish gene discovery
A University of Maine at Farmington research team that includes one student from Livermore Falls has discovered a new gene in fish that could impact the understanding of human diseases.