Food pantries and other groups in the county can apply for funding to help them in their missions of feeding the hungry.

The Budget Advisory Committee had eliminated the $31,011 in flex benefits before commissioners restored it in a 4-1 vote Monday. The mobile kitchen idea will allow the county to keep the inmates at ...

AUGUSTA — Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. has been elected president of the Maine Sheriffs’ Association, the organization announced Monday. Nichols began his law enforcement career in 1984 ...

(TNS) - Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to set the maximum guaranteed construction cost for the new emergency operations center at nearly $3.7 million. That does not include any "soft ...

In the hills and small towns of rural Franklin County, Maine, women are quietly shaping our local economy with determination, ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Franklin County, an area which ...

(TNS) — Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. got approval Tuesday to spend up to $205,000 to buy hybrid cruisers and equip them, after being notified that five ordered in February would not be coming. The money ...

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Gabriel Wilbur was hospitalized after police shot him in the shoulder 3 times in July 2025. Officials said he was threatening to shoot a landscaper working at a Wilton home. Meanwhile, some residents ...