FARMINGTON - Entrepreneurship is not for the chicken-hearted among us.

Photographer Tony Nazar captured early fall at the beaver pond behind Wilton Public Safety Building in Wilton.

By Tim Shumway

Quyana!

The Alaska Experience for 10 Mt. Blue Middle School students has come to an end. They are safely on their way back home after an amazing and exciting 10 days in the Last Frontier. It hardly seems possible that after more than a year of planning, fundraising, learning, and corresponding with our Alaskan counterparts, it has all come and gone.

MT. VERNON - Here at the Daily Bulldog we’ve done our share of traveling, and we’ve had more than our share of great meals in a dozen different states. None of them though, were any nicer than the completely fantastic and somewhat funky dinner we just enjoyed at The Olde Post Office Café in Mt. Vernon, Maine.

By Victoria Newbill

Waking up this morning was kind of hard. We had to wake up 30 minutes earlier than usual because we were planning on Skyping with the Cadillac Community eighth graders back at Mt. Blue. It was so nice seeing all my friends, and now I miss them even more.

FARMINGTON - Police closed Whittier Road from Wilton Road to Seamon Road this morning after heavy rain from Hurricane Earl fell overnight and washed away an area up to and under the road’s tarred edge. Erosion created a deep gorge off the side where the installation of a new sewer line is underway.

WILTON - Residents will be asked to allow the town to accept a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant grant at Tuesday’s special town meeting, for planning purposes in the downtown.

The special town meeting will be held on Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. at the the town office. The selectmen’s meeting will follow.

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.

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.

JAY - Investigators believe a light bulb ignited a rapid-moving fire that destroyed a barn on the Old Jay Hill Road Thursday morning.