Spruce Mountain schools seek waiver for days missed in October due to mass shooting

Two towns and one school in Regional School Unit 73 are in Androscoggin County, which was under a shelter-in-place recommendation Oct. 26 and 27.

Council offers maps of Androscoggin River Trail, lake paddling

Maine State Credit Union to donate $20,000 to charities

Internal failure temporarily knocks out 9-1-1 emergency calling system for 12 communications centers in Maine

The 12 regional communications centers, which were down for about 90 minutes early Wednesday — included Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and Somerset counties.

Shelters not allowed: Auburn pressed to rethink homeless policies

After an encampment at a local church was cleared due to code violations, the city of Auburn is facing questions over its larger role in addressing the homelessness crisis.

Farmington-based healthy coalition gets $1 million federal grant to help vaccine efforts in five counties

The project’s target population includes the unvaccinated in the service areas of Franklin, Androscoggin and Oxford counties.

COVID-19 case trends continue steady rise, one month following record lows

The level of community transmission in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties was moderate, but if trends continue that is likely to change to substantial or high.

COVID case rates in central, western Maine continue to rise, but remain below masking recommendation threshold

Seven cases of the delta variant recorded in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties since April.

Shortage of veterinarians for large animals a concern for farmers

Commitment and costs seen as complicating factors to getting services.

Ricocheting effects of last year’s drought on livestock farmers

"If the writing is on the wall that feed is going to be short, I’m going to be more aggressive at tending my herd down this fall.”  -Aaron Buckley, Buckley Farms