FARMINGTON - University of Maine at Farmington students, faculty and staff kick-off the 2010 academic year with UMF’s third annual “Month of Service.” Developed to bring members of the campus and Farmington community together as they participate in volunteer activities for the public good, this year’s program will engage campus volunteers throughout the month of September at food pantries, churches, public service providers, nonprofit agencies and more.

FARMINGTON -The latest offering at Foster Technology Center is taking a cue from its subject material, and is starting with the seeds of a program.

JAY - A 47-year-old man was arrested and charged with terrorizing following an alleged custody dispute this morning.
Jeffrey Offord of Jay, was arrested and charged with terrorizing with a firearm, a Class C crime. Jay Officer Matthew Billian responded at 10:42 a.m. to a complaint on Franklin Road. While responding Franklin County dispatchers advised [...]

FARMINGTON - More than seven months after a blaze closed much of the facility, displaced practices are set to reopen in the Franklin Health Medical Arts Center early next week.

WILTON - A dozen or so residents unanimously approved accepting a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant at a special town meeting held Tuesday night.
Wilton applied for the grant to pay for a series of planning activities revolving around economic development strategies and low- to moderate-income housing needs in the downtown area.
The town had previously held [...]

JAY - A new plan to merge the Jay School Department and RSU 36 continues to develop, with planning committee members expecting to begin reviewing a first draft on Sept. 21.

A group of community members from the two districts have been working steadily for the past several months to develop a plan to create a single district to educate the children of Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls. In addition to developing the core plan required by the state, subcommittees have been creating series of recommendations for the proposed Regional School Unit. Residents of all three towns will vote on the plan in January 2011 and, if approved, the new district would be officially created in July.

WILTON - The police department has received three grants totaling $31,000 for training and equipment needs.
Police Chief Dennis Brown said the grants were all awarded last year and again this year.
A STOP or Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors, to prevent violence against women grant program has awarded the Wilton Department $19,939 for training and wireless microphones, [...]

FARMINGTON - University of Maine at Farmington has recently received a grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities to help fund an innovative new group of learning communities on the UMF campus during the fall 2010 semester. Developed to provide new teaching and learning opportunities within academic programs and across academic disciplines, UMF [...]

FARMINGTON - Two sets of puppies dropped off overnight at the Franklin County Shelter this summer have been adopted into good homes.

In late July, a police officer on his late night rounds found two young pups that had been dropped off in a crate at the animal shelter. Ten days before that discovery, another two puppies were dropped off overnight in one of the shelter’s outdoor pens and were found by staff the next morning.

CARTHAGE - One man was killed and four people were sent to hospitals following a crash at the intersection of Route 142 and West Side Road at 10:05 a.m. Monday.
Police say Tolga Ozkur, 36, of Wales, driving a 2007 Chevrolet pickup “failed to stop at the stop sign and drove into the path of the [...]