KINGFIELD – August 7-13 is National Health Center Week and Mt. Abram Regional Health Center is celebrating by sponsoring daily giveaways. Each weekday, the health center will provide information and free giveaways related to a specific topic. There will also be a raffle for door prizes! We welcome both patients and the public. Also, on [...]
WILTON - For some folks, summer doesn’t really start until August: mosquitoes give way to horseflies, locals give way to tourists, Red Sox give way to the Yankees. Come usher in the only month of summer that matters with Teachers Lounge Mafia on Friday, August 5th as they return to Calzolaio Pasta Company in Wilton [...]
CARTHAGE - New England Celtic Arts will present Dave Mallett, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage, Maine on Sunday, July 24 at 7:00 pm. This is the final installment of the popular “Sunday's In Maine” series featuring Maine artists at Skye Theatre. The 7:00 curtain will be preceded by a jam session [...]
FARMINGTON - Commissioners agreed today that November was too soon for a referendum vote on a new, secure facility for dispatchers and are now aiming for a June 2012 vote. The county has preliminary plans for a 30-foot by 60-foot secured structure, which would stand away from both the existing offices used by dispatchers and [...]
WILTON - Fire crews were called to the former Forster Manufacturing Co. building complex on Depot Street today to put out a fire that had started by sparks as welders were cutting pipes. A nearby Birch Street resident called the fire department at 2 p.m. to report seeing smoke rising from the massive former mill [...]
JAY - Police are looking for assistance with an early morning burglary that hit a gas station on Main Street Saturday. According to Detective Richard Caton, who is investigating the case, Officer Russell Adams responded to CN Brown at 94 Main Street after a burglary alarm sounded at 4:45 a.m., Saturday morning. The front door's [...]
New England Celtic Arts will present Ian Sherwood's “The Maine Event.” Performances will be held at The North New Portland Community Church on Tuesday, July, 19; at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage on Wednesday, July 20, and partnered with the Kingfield POPS. Other performances will take place at Unity College Center for [...]
WILTON - Carrie (Follett) Brann Harnden, 96, died peacefully on Sunday, July 17, 2011, in the comfort of her home on Bryant Road, East Wilton, with family members by her side. She was born July 3, 1915, in New Sharon, Maine, the daughter of Ernest and Belle (Russell) Follett. In 1932, she married Chester Brann [...]
NEW SHARON - Come for family fun, stay for the Hootenanny. The town puts on the Annual New Sharon Family Fun Day for residents this Saturday, with events running from 11:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. The evening concludes with the Hootenanny, a music and talent show featuring a wide array of artists at the Congregational [...]
A recent early morning gentle rain decorates a spider's web in Wilton. (Photo by Jim Knox)
