Franklin County News

Babies depend on parental care. Local teens will have a better opportunity to experience how much babies will depend on their care when 10 new simulator dolls become available this fall.

It started with the white rocks in the front yard of their new home nearly 20 years ago.

After a year's hiatus, the Northern Forest Partnership Program is back and ready to grant $142,000 to community-based projects that promote investment and create or maintain jobs in the Northern Forest by ...

Neighbors, friends and community members were sweating under the hot sun Wednesday as they built a special garden for Savannah Hurley, who is struggling with cancer.

Selectmen have authorized Town Manager Richard Davis to seek a cost proposal to participate in a study that Franklin County commissioners are having done on the sheriff's department office and communications ...

A Wilton man was arrested early Tuesday after he was accused of starting a fire in a shed that did not belong to him and then leaving without putting it fully out.

What would become Maine's largest wind-power facility could get the final go-ahead when the state's wilderness planning board meets Wednesday in Orono.

The Maine Land Use Regulation Commission will take up TransCanada's proposed final development plan for a 44-turbine, 132-megawatt commercial wind power project in northern Franklin County when it meets ...

A two-vehicle crash at Spaulding Road and Hartwell Road on Thursday sent two people to the hospital and a dog to a veterinary hospital.

Town Manager Lynn White was busy laying-off employees Monday, including himself.

Four men are in the Franklin County Jail charged in connection with more than two dozen break-ins at camps in Strong and New Vineyard last week.

Some preliminary findings to alleviate space constraints at the Franklin County Courthouse and Sheriff's Department surprised some members of the county building committee Thursday, but they found the ideas ...

Four men are being held at a Farmington jail on $10,000 to $15,000 cash bail on charges connected to camp burglaries on Porter Lake in Strong and New Vineyard last week.

Alcohol was the motivation behind the burglaries and destruction at 27 or more camps on Porter Lake last week, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Robinson told a judge Wednesday.

Franklin County Sheriff's deputies have made seven arrests in last week's break-ins and vandalism at camps along Porter Lake.

A Chesterville man is accused of stealing an antique cook stove, a wood stove, scrap metal and copper from an Old Vienna Road camp, located off Stream Road in Vienna.

A West Kingfield Road resident was given a week by selectmen Monday to remove debris and metal from his property, Administrative Assistant Greg Davis said Thursday.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Department is asking for information about whoever broke into more than two dozen summer homes in Strong and New Vineyard on Monday night, causing thousands of dollars of damage.

The driver and a passenger of a Jeep Cherokee escaped injury when their vehicle collided with an E. L. Vining Co.

From our Seasonal Guides Cool Mountain Places Looking down Moxie Falls Most of these Unique Natural Areas are less than an hour drive from the anywhere in Northern Franklin County, making them perfect for a ...