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Paris reconsiders property sale policy
May 16, 2013 12:00 amPARIS — The board of selectmen, on Monday, voted to sell a tax-acquired plot of land without putting it out to public auction, but it will probably be the last time board members make that exception.
Town Manager Amy Bernard told the board the parcel of land in question was previously owned by a relative of the purchaser, Glenn Geyer whose own property abuts the land.
Geyer offered to purchase the property, which is not buildable, for $2,000, Bernard said. The former owner owes $546 in back taxes on the plot, she told the board.
Inmates to restore Otisfield's first firetruck
May 16, 2013 12:00 amENGINE ONE — Otisfield's first firetruck, a 1938 Chevrolet, 500-gallon pumper, shown here, is slated to be restored by pre-release prisoners at the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren.
Oil industry attendence uncertain at Otisfield tar sands forum
May 16, 2013 12:00 amOTISFIELD — The town's conservation committee is inviting the public to attend a forum on May 29 at 7 p.m. at the Otisfield Community Hall to discuss the potential that the aging Portland-Montreal oil pipeline may be used to pump oil-sands derived crude oil from Canada south to Casco Bay.
Otisfield voters, at the annual town meeting June 29, will choose whether to adopt a municipal resolution opposing any change in the pipe's flow direction or the product running through it.
Paris' accounts reconciled/New bookkeeper sought
May 16, 2013 12:00 amPARIS — The town's general ledger has been balanced and its accounts are back in order, Town Manager Amy Bernard reported at the selectboard meeting Monday.
In late March, Bernard reported that the town's books had not been properly reconciled for more than a year and were unbalanced by more than $1 million. In April, the town hired an outside bookkeeper to clean up its accounts.
Cancer walk Saturday to benefit Oxford woman
May 16, 2013 12:00 amOXFORD — A walk scheduled for May 18 in Auburn will benefit 29-year-old Michelle Polley Abbott, an Oxford resident who was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, said Rachel Verrill, who helped organize the fundraiser.
The walk, organized by friends and family, will begin at The Festival Plaza on Main Street in Auburn at 10 a.m., one block south of Great Falls Plaza. All of the money raised at the event will go to help Abbott, her husband Ben and their two small boys.
Sumner group claims more than 100 signatures for withdrawal petition
May 16, 2013 12:00 amSUMNER — More than 100 signatures have been gathered for a petition to withdraw Sumner from the RSU 10 School District, claimed resident Jeff Pfeifer, a strong supporter of withdrawal, at Tuesday's selectmen meeting.
As of Wednesday morning, however, only 42 signatures had been turned into the town office and validated, fewer than the 49 needed to initiate the withdrawal process, according to Town Clerk Susan Runes.
Motion to restore on-call wage for B'field Rescue fails
May 16, 2013 12:00 amBUCKFIELD — A motion to restore money to establish a $2 per-hour on-call rate for Buckfield Rescue volunteers failed to move forward during the selectmen's meeting May 7.
Rescue Chief Lisa Buck included an additional $10,000 in the department's budget to cover the wage increase.
The municipal budgets proposed by both selectmen and the budget committee, however, cut the on-call wage proposal, part of an effort to create a flat, zero tax increase budget for 2014.
Communications tower not coming to Otisfield
May 16, 2013 12:00 amOTISFIELD — U.S. Cellular will not build a communications tower in Otisfield.
Nearly 16 months after the Planning Board approved the application by U.S. Cellular to construct a 180-foot communications tower on Scribner Hill to accommodate equipment for cellphone companies and the town's Fire Department, the issue is dead and the town still has no cell coverage.
B'field board OKs new appointment policy
May 16, 2013 12:00 amBUCKFIELD — Revisions to the town's policy for committee and board appointments that requires applicants to appear before selectmen during a regular meeting, prior to their approval, was adopted by the board of selectmen during its meeting May 7.
Prior to the adoption of the uniform policy, attendance at the board meeting in which the applicant's appointment would be discussed was required for some town committees but not others.
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