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State announces hard-times ahead
11/26/2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- AUGUSTA - - As local MSAD #58 and MSAD #9 superintendents prepare school board members and administrators for an anticipated crisis to come, Augusta last week made the news official. Governor John E. Baldacci ordered immediate spending reductions in an Executive Order by acknowledging a State reven... View
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Snowmaking makes it happen at Sugarloaf
11/26/2008 RECREATION
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- CARRABASSETT VALLEY ? Sugarloaf kicked off the 2008-09 winter season on Friday, Nov. 21, opening with skiing and riding on five trails covering 1,750 vertical feet ?all serviced by the SuperQuad chairlift. This was able to occur due in large part to offseason upgrades to its snowmaking system. Snow... View
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Someone to be thankful for
11/26/2008 PEOPLE
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- KINGFIELD ? There paced the rigorous walk of a woman who gleamed with a friendly face, wore a colorful yellow hard hat and a yellow sweatshirt. As she strutted down North Main Street in Kingfield the words on her shirt revealed her purpose: "Annual Maine Credit Unions' Ending Hunger Walking Tour," ... View
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Reorganization plan killed by voters
11/12/2008 EDUCATION
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- NORTH FRANKLIN -- The fate of a newly created Western Mountain Regional School District was decided when voters from the four area school districts came out to the polls on Nov. 4. Three of the four districts voted in opposition to the plan to consolidate MSADs #58, #9, Highland and Coplin plantati... View
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Record turnout on Election Day
11/12/2008 LOCAL POLITICS
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- NORTH FRANKLIN COUNTY - - Historically, last week produced a recordbreaking voter turn-out that brought us a new Democratic President. In Maine, Democrat Barack Obama was chosen by 57.43 percent of the voters, defeating Republican runner John McCain who received 40.50 percent of the votes. This gav... View
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Court finds against Saddleback
11/05/2008 CRIME
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- AUBURN ? The Androscoggin Superior Court recently handed down a ruling finding that Saddleback and others violated the Maine Human Rights Act when Master Electrician and foreman, Robert Duggan, was fired from Saddleback's worksite for reporting serious electrical safety hazards and for reporting el... View
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Takes a lickin?
05/21/2008 CURIOSITY
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- This cow moose and her two yearlings were seen last week on West Kingfield Road in Kingfield down on their knees licking salt off the road. Salt is a much needed element in their diets. As the photographer approached, the mother moose rose to her feet as if to keep an eye on her young ones. View
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Letterman talks Irregular
03/05/2008 CURIOSITY
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- Our readers know it?s worth talking about --we?ve got readers from here to France and back to Alaska pouring over our pages. And Wednesday mornings hot off the presses you?re bound to find the paper being discussed (and yes, criticized a bit) at breakfast hangouts all over the area from Coburn Gore... View
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Trout in the Classroom comes to district
02/06/2008 EDUCATION
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- MSAD #58 -- Originally established in Maine by Lynne Richard, education director of the Portland Water District, the Trout in the Classroom program has now arrived in MSAD #58. Thanks to full sponsorship by Poland Spring Water Bottling Company and its lead and initiative, MSAD #58 elementary school... View
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We don't know enough to know what we don't know
12/05/2007 LETTERS
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- "Environmental scholar and naturopathic physician Dr. Joyce Young recently told me: ?We do not know how much we don't know; and what we don't know is huge!? So, this will require courage, a real commitment to ethical stewardship, a willingness to re-evaluate what we think we know, and a deep desire... View
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Terrain more than doubles at Sugarloaf
12/05/2007 RECREATION
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- "Excellent snowmaking weather combined with improvements to our snowmaking system had already enabled us to get significantly more terrain open compared to the same period last year," said Marketing Director Frank Guerriero. "Add in this monster snow storm and we're well on our way to some of the b... View
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A Williamsburg Christmas
12/05/2007 FESTIVE EVENT
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- Robert ?Stub? Taylor, a long time Sugarloafer and former Kingfield resident, dressed in Williamsburg era garb, poses next to a tree covered in fruit as part of the five-house Christmas House tour held on Sunday in North Anson to benefit the Stewart Library. ... View
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Maine Huts and Trails
09/11/2007 TOURISM
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- CARRABASSETT VALLEY ?- ?Being here shows what can be accomplished through vision, hard wok and perseverance.? This is what volunteer Board Chairman Bob Peixotto of Maine Huts and Trails said about its founder Larry Warren, of Kingfield, at a MHT ground breaking ceremony for its first hut, located n... View
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Richard Lambert, Approaching the 100-year mark
09/05/2007 PEOPLE
The Original Irregular / STPNS
Kingfield, Maine (STPNS)- KINGFIELD -- A local man will celebrate his one hundredth birthday in the middle of this month. To mark Richard Lambert?s milestone, friends and relatives will gather at the Farmington Baptist Church on Sept. 16 for a noon potluck lunch with desserts and beverages provided which will be followed by... View
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