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Banquets/Fundraisers Jan. 23: WTU Red River Valley Deer Camp, 5 p.m., American Legion Club, East Grand Forks. For more info call John Eaton, 218-779-0968. Feb. 11: NWTF Capital City Strutters Virtual Broadcast on Facebook, Tinucci’s Banquet Center. Use this link to view event. https://facebook.com/Capitalcitystrutters/live Feb. 12: The Gun-A-Palooza hosted by Minnesota Greater Lakes Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation, 6-8...

Read Article BUCKFIELD —  The Select Board held an emergency meeting Friday to meet with its auditor in an hourlong executive session. A representative from the accounting firm Ron Beaulieu and Co. of Portland met with the three selectmen behind closed doors to discuss the town’s finances and an employee, according to the representative. The complete overhaul of the small town office staff has left officials playing catch-up as Town Manager John Andrews gets new staff trained. He took ove...

Read Article Due to someone associated with the Rangeley Town Office testing positive for Covid-19 the Town Office is closed to the public from December 31, 2020 until January 11, 2021.   As a result of the office closure the January 4, 2021 Board of Selectmen’s meeting was conducted via Zoom.  District 17 State Senator Russell Black briefly joined the Zoom meeting to update the Selectmen on a legislative proposal to expand the number of Franklin County Commissioners from three to five. ...

Outdoornews January 7, 2021 Banquets/Fundraisers Jan. 9: WTU Southern Minnesota Deer Camp, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn/Austin Conference Center. For more info call Chris Petersen, 507-450-6256. Jan. 23: WTU Red River Valley Deer Camp, 5 p.m., American Legion Club, East Grand Forks. For more info call John Eaton, 218-779-0968. Feb. 11: NWTF Capital City Strutters Virtual Broadcast on Facebook, Tinucci’s Banquet Center. Use this link to view event.  Education/Seminar             * * *     ...

Outdoornews December 17, 2020 Dec. 1: Lake Superior lake trout season opens. Dec. 13: Deer muzzleloader season closes. Dec. 14: Crow season opens. Dec 21: Bobcat, fisher, and pine marten seasons open. Dec 29: Fisher and pine marten seasons closes. Dec. 31: Deer archery season closes. Banquets/Fundraisers Jan. 9, 2021: WTU Southern Minnesota Deer Camp, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn/Austin Conference Center. For more info call Chris Petersen, 507-450-6256. Jan. 23, 2021: WTU Red River Valley Deer Camp, ...

The Board interviewed four candidates in November and conducted a second round with others on Dec. 16. Oxford Town Manager Butch Asselin will delay his retirement up to 90 days as selectmen continuing interviewing potential replacements.. Supplied image Asselin had set Jan. 1, 2021 as his final day on the job. However, Oxford selectmen asked if he would serve in an interim capacity until a new hire is made or through March, which he agreed to do. “We realize that we are in competition with ...

Read Article BUCKFIELD — The Town Office, closed since Nov. 17, will remain closed for another two weeks, the Select Board ruled Tuesday evening. The board decided to extend the closure while new Town Manager John Andrews gets his new office staff trained and up to speed. Town business came to a halt last month following the resignation of longtime Town Clerk Cindy Dunn, who performed multiple roles for the town for more than 30 years. Andrews, a state representative in Augusta representing ...

Read Article At the February 25, 2019 Board of Selectmen’s meeting Guy Rouelle employed by Dubois-King, the Town’s airport consultant at the time, presented a solar array update.  Mr. Rouelle provided information about FAA funding available to locate a solar farm at Rangeley’s Stephen A. Bean Municipal Airport. The Selectmen voted 3-2 to have Dubois-King move forward with an $18,240.00 solar feasibility study at their May 6, 2019 meeting.  Board member Cynthia Egan suggested that the B...

If i wasnt working in new york, i would be there right now. it is home. >> donnie, let me ask you this. i know you were tweeting, you know, so many people were, right after the bombs went off, making sure everyone you knew who might have been along the finish line was a-okay. is everyone okay, your loved ones? >> yes, my loved ones are great. my bandmate was running in the marathon. i was on set shooting blue bloods at the time. and just the night before, joe and i were talking, i said how long ...

My gear, we grabbed our gear, and ran up here. and just in the time it took us -- they did such a good job between the doctors and nurses, firefighters, police officers and emts on scene, and all the great citizens that stepped up that day, that they had all the victims already in the triage tent, being worked on and transported to the hospital. >> you said it was the victims courage that so many of your colleagues were stunned by. >> i talked to lieutenant joe roach, ladder 15, on marathon mond...