Features
Sponsors and more needed for A-T benefit event
JAY - Sponsors, vendors, runners, walkers and volunteers with big hearts are needed now.
After Lisa and Chris Brochu of Jay, found out that both their children, Joshua, 8, and Brooke, 5, were diagnosed with Ataxia Telangiectasia or A-T, a rare fatal disease that strikes young children, many people wanted to know more about the disease and how to help the young family.
News
FARMINGTON - Good luck getting these students to turn it down.
The University of Maine at Farmington’s student station, WUMF, is getting a big hardware upgrade as it looks toward a future of increased interaction between station and students, using and competing against online markets and a rising number of listeners.
By Ryan Provencher
This morning we hiked up the mountain behind the school to pick berries on a field trip called the “Tundra Tromp.”
JAY - Investigators believe a light bulb ignited a rapid-moving fire that destroyed a barn on the Old Jay Hill Road Thursday morning.
Where in the world (Franklin County, that is) is this? Here is a photo sent in from a loyal Bulldog reader that was taken in our county for people to try and identify. So, please, send your best guesses to our comment section and we’ll let you know the correct answer as soon as we [...]
Today we woke up early in the morning due to school. Sure, we may be on a trip, but we still have to get up and ready for school like any other middle schooler.
Arts
Poet’s Corner»THINKING REEDS ASWAY
Happening, nowadays, feels
different, everyone
watching how our shoulders bend
inward as if preparing for a doorway
narrower than most,
how memory with legs
and arms and fingertips for touching well
into oncoming days
reaches out from our past,
though, sometimes,
darkening white clouds cotton to the blue.
The days with their easts and wests
are lit by variable sunshine
moving suddenly across the field
where the [...]
Sports
UMF opens season against Lawrence»
Lawrence University’s Bennett Pang (9) falls after a tackle by University of Maine at Farmington defender Nickolas Grim (2). Pang scored a goal and had an assist to lead the Vikings to a 2-0 win, Wednesday afternoon at Prescott Field.
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: A big thank you»I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to all that helped this Phillips Old Home Days. We had a lot of medical issues this year which could have hit this celebration very hard if not for those of you that came forward and stepped up. There are some high school students that [...]
Happenings
Jay and Livermore Falls Class of 1960 observe 50th reunion»
JAY – Approximately 110 people, graduates of the Jay and Livermore Falls High Schools’ Class of 1960, their spouses, and special guests, observed their 50th reunion on Saturday, Aug. 14th.
Health
Health discussion on preventing athletic injuries»FARMINGTON - Registrations are now being accepted for the next “Prescriptions for Health” presentation featuring Dr. Nancy Cummings, an orthopaedic surgeon affiliated with Franklin Health Orthopaedics. The presentation is part of Franklin Memorial Hospital’s monthly community health information series that is free and open to the public.
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, Dr. Cummings will speak on [...]
Business
Applications for high energy cost grant program due Sept. 8»WASHINGTON, D.C. - Agriculture Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager today announced that USDA is accepting applications for the High Energy Cost Grant program.
“Under this program, the funding awarded will improve energy generation, transmission and distribution facilities that serve extremely high energy cost rural areas - those with average home energy costs exceeding 275 percent of the [...]
Obituaries
Roaine Hazel Hatch (1924 - 2010)»CHESTERVILLE – Roaine Hazel Hatch, 85, formerly of Wilton, died early Tuesday afternoon at her son’s home in Chesterville where she had resided for the past five years.
