Farmington Mercury
Coverage (4 articles)
Mercury Local Moves 203 Stories With No Broken Links
We Built Our Own, No. 18. We renamed a section "Town Hall" and readers landed on a federal sentencing. Fixing it meant moving 203 stories without breaking a link.
One Codebase Runs Sixteen Publications
We Built Our Own, No. 14. A new publication is a row in a table and a DNS record.
Mercury Local's WordPress Migration in Two Weeks
We Built Our Own, No. 02. 813 articles, 7,124 images, one platform. Built by one publisher and an AI.
Leaving Three WordPress Blogs Behind
We Built Our Own, No. 01. Where Mercury Local started, and why it could not stay there.
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Farmington's $14.3M School HVAC Bond and Its Electric Bill
Asked at the Annual Town Meeting for studies of indoor air temperature in the four schools, the superintendent said she had no data that evening.
Farmington Votes April 30: Polling Places, Absentee Rules
Farmington's $143 million operating budget and $18.3 million in bond questions go to voters Thursday, April 30. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at four locations, and absentee ballots have their own set of rules and deadlines.
Farmington Sets April 30 Vote on $143M Budget, $18.3M Bonds
Town Meeting voters referred a 4.74% spending plan and two bond questions to the ballot. The average homeowner would pay $281.20 more in taxes. A state mandate and a historic debt load both sat in the room.
Noble Energy Brings Smaller Plan to Farmington Wetlands
Noble Energy returned to Farmington Inland Wetlands with a smaller plan for 8261 Fienemann Road: no restaurant, a shrunken warehouse and travel center, and wetlands impact cut from 3,700 square feet to under 1,000. The public, when its turn came, wanted to talk about four schools within a half mile. The hearing was continued to May 6.
Farmington Police Log, April 17–20
Officer Daniel J. Taylor's first arrest that Friday came at 5:11 a.m., when he served a conspiracy warrant at 319 New Britain Avenue.