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Wind energy studied in Woodstock
May 05, 2011 12:00 amWOODSTOCK — On Tuesday, May 3, the Woodstock Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to direct Town Manager Vern Maxfield to appoint a committee to study the Commercial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance Provisions drafted over the past months by a five-town committee.
There will be at least one member from the Planning Board and one from the Friends of Spruce Mountain.
The committee will report back to the Selectmen for any further action. A proposed wind turbine setback was voted down at town meeting, in part, due to reports that this model ordinance was on its way.
Students return from China with new perspectives
May 05, 2011 12:00 amIN CHINA — OHCHS students and teachers in China inlude, Front from left, Kayla Turner, Emma Day-Branch, Logan Boucher, Ruby Day-Branch, Lynn Schott, Matt Farnum and Pam Chodosh. Middle, Kyle Rainey, Sam Hatch, Beryl Shepley-Brandhorst, Nicholas Lacasse and Laura Farr. Back, Sarah Shepley. Craig Blanchard and Jesse Newcomb.
School budget nears completion
May 05, 2011 12:00 amOXFORD — SAD 17 officials are considering a $34.65 million budget and a $1 million bond on Monday night, both of which will be presented to voters in June.
The actual amount of money raised through taxation would increase from $15,254,076 to $15,992,344, a $738,000 hike.
The district has struggled to bridge the gap between declining state revenues, the expiration of federal stimulus monies, increases in fixed costs, and salary negotiations.
Junkyard may break DEP rules
May 05, 2011 12:00 amWEST PARIS — Waste from a West Paris junkyard is finding its way into places it does not belong.
A local resident could be running afoul of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), said West Paris selectmen at a recent meeting.
Cars from a junkyard on Briggs Street, just off of Main Street, are sitting on lots that have not been permitted by the state as junkyards.
Remembering on the sesquicentennial of the Civil War
May 05, 2011 12:00 amSoldiers in the trenches before battle, Petersburg, Va., 1865. (The Petersburg identification appearing in the official caption for this photograph received by NARA from the Army Signal Corps has been disputed. Civil War historians and photo-historians have uncovered documentary evidence suggesting that this image of Union forces was taken by Andrew J. Russell just before the Second Battle of Fredericksburg in the spring of 1863)
Planners consider new building at town 'Gateway'
May 05, 2011 12:00 amNORWAY — A proposal from a local developer could bring slight changes to the face of Norway.
Ken Poland, president of the Poland Corporation in West Paris, plans to tear down an abandoned house on 34 Fair Street, directly across from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, and replace it with a 28' by 52' office and retail building.
Poland says that he plans to begin work on the new structure this summer, and intends to rent half of the space out to a beautician. The rest would be rented out as office space.
Do you think that the economy is getting better?
May 05, 2011 12:00 amYes, people are becoming more optimistic every day. The company I work for has been showing gradual growth which says to me that people are spending more.
Glen Thibault
Lewiston
Towns cool on privatizing waste services
May 05, 2011 12:00 amAREA — The privatization of the transfer station that serves Greenwood and Woodstock is on hold, after leaders from the two towns decided to gather more information before moving ahead.
Changes to hours, recycling methods, and local control are on the table.
In a meeting on April 26, the Greenwood and Woodstock board, consisting of selectmen and town managers from the two towns, discussed changing a proposal from Pine Tree Waste to manage the Route 26 facility.
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