Farmington News

Brooks, R-Jay, is a graduate of Jay High School and the University of Maine at Farmington as an English/history major in secondary education.

A dispatcher with Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office said the blaze was reported at 6:12 p.m. at 453 Canton Road, better known as Route 108, in Livermore.

Four people were taken to hospitals in Farmington and Lewiston on Friday afternoon after a car and a pickup truck collided on Route 133.

Jason Bartlett, left, of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, with the help of volunteer Ernie Hilton, center, and Steve Shepard, right, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service place tubes in the gravel of the Sandy River in Strong on Thursday as they planted Atlantic salmon eggs.

A Wilton man pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his car through a wooden fence at Hippach Field and to smashing mailboxes in separate cases in October 2011.

A second man pleaded guilty Wednesday in Franklin County Superior Court to stealing scrap metal from a Temple property in August 2011.

Ashley Taylor of Chesterville serenades noontime pedestrians on Main Street in Farmington on Wednesday.

This is an architect's rendering of a proposed new Franklin County dispatch center, which county residents will vote on in June.

A local man pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of theft for stealing scrap metal from a Temple property in August 2011.

Businesses are stepping up to help their neighbors this winter. Homestead Bakery is providing fresh vegetables and eggs weekly to the Share and Care Food Closet in Farmington.

Theodora J. Kalikow closed her eyes and thought about the 18 years she has spent as president of the University of Maine at Farmington.

Sled dog races will be held Saturday and Sunday in the fields of Sandy River Farm on routes 2/27. The Farmington Sprint Sled Dog races, sponsored by the Down East Sled Dog Club and Farmington area businesses, are slated to begin at about 9 a.m. Feb.

School districts across Maine learned Thursday the latest estimates from the Department of Education of how much state money might come their way for the next school year.

The Budget Committee agreed Wednesday to recommend approval of $141,915 for local agencies, including $132,415 for the public library.

Farmington, Maine -- Four middle and high school students were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after the bus they were on Tuesday afternoon collided with a tractor-trailer on a slick stretch of U.S. Route 2. There were 14 students from Mt.

Guests at the Warming Centers are busy preparing an array of "crafty items" for a basket raffle to be held at the upcoming Warm Hearts-Warm Homes dance to benefit the Farmington Area Ecumenical Ministry heating oil assistance fund.

A joyful celebration of all that the University of Maine at Farmington and the local community have accomplished together is the basis for four days of workshops featuring yoga, meditation and sound.

The sergeant whose hunch led to an arrest last year in the case of a fatal stabbing was named the 2011 Employee of the Year for the Farmington Police Department.

Augusta - Veterans who get in trouble with the law might be given another option other than jail time.

Three NorthStar ambulances took four students to Franklin Memorial Hospital after a head-on crash between a school bus and a tractor-trailer hauling lumber on Tuesday on Route 2 in Farmington.