New Sharon News

A New Sharon man was uninjured Friday morning after the trailer he was hauling with a van started to fishtail on a bend on Route 133 and went out of control, police said.

Architects have refined their design for a proposed Franklin County office building and now propose expanding the new facility to include most departments.

Fire destroyed a building that housed a wood-turning mill on Rand Road off Route 148 late Wednesday, Fire Chief Joe Paradis said Thursday.

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The following were recently booked at the Franklin County Detention Center: Chris Crockett, 48, New Sharon, operating under the influence, May 8, $3,000 unsecured bail, Farmington Police Department.

Two New Sharon residents are behind bars after police allegedly caught them red-handed robbing their neighbor's home.

The SAD 9 budget has been officially set. When residents attend the May 19 district budget town meeting, they will consider a spending plan that is $307,575 less than last year.

More than 5 acres of land burned in separate grass and brush fires over two days.

SAD 9 directors are set to begin deliberations on the 2009-10 budget after examining possible cuts at their meeting Tuesday.

Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to have an architectural firm consultant pursue federal and state funding programs to help build a $3 million public safety building.

Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal Thomas Cormier of New Sharon cleans the roof of his two-story apartment building Tuesday on Middle Street in Farmington.

Franklin County commissioners recently told sheriff's deputies they need to know if a grant application is being proposed.

A litter of eight puppies died Sunday in a fire that destroyed Thomas Gray's house on Gray Road, Rangeley fire-rescue Chief Rudy Davis said Monday.

It was nearly 30 years ago that Miriam Smith was appointed the town's treasurer.

Three people were injured Tuesday morning when two cars collided head-on on Route 4 at its intersection with Route 17 in North Jay.

A mobile home was destroyed by fire late Sunday afternoon during the winter's first major snowstorm, said fire Chief Terry Bell.

Farmington Downtown Business & Professional Association members asked Franklin County commissioners Tuesday if they would be willing to share some of the county parking spaces for downtown workers.

Two men pleaded not guilty to drug charges Thursday in unrelated cases in Franklin County Superior Court.