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Selectmen eye waste on vacant lots
May 05, 2011 12:00 amSUMNER — Town officials are concerned about garbage left in vacant lots.
Administrative assistant Cynthia Norton informed the board of selectmen, at a recent meeting, of piles of trash being revealed by melting snow.
"There's two that I know of and I talked to [Code Enforcement Officer] Sid [Abbott] about them," said Norton. "The rubbish has been blowing across the road and into neighboring yards since fall, and now that the snow is gone, there's a mountain of rubbish there."
Norway budget proposal includes capital projects
May 05, 2011 12:00 amNORWAY — Town Manager David Holt told the Budget Committee on Tuesday night that he is recommending $427,500 in capital projects for the coming fiscal year, but maintaining a stable tax rate is essential.
The project include a new firetruck, highway truck and road improvements.
“Our tax rates have been level for almost six or seven years,” Holt said. “It's essential to have a stable tax rate.”
Local woman hopes hunting hobby will help family
May 05, 2011 12:00 amTV STARS — The Roasts, from left, Chandra, Hunter, Chris and Krista, appeared on the pilot episode of American Traditions, their family-themed hunting show on Time Warner Cable, last Saturday, April 30.
Smaller budget, higher taxes for Buckfield voters
May 05, 2011 12:00 amBUCKFIELD — There's good news and bad news for the Buckfield taxpayer, said town leaders during a Tuesday meeting of the Board of Selectmen.
The good news is that the budget committee, working with department heads, the town manager, and members of the board, was able to produce a budget of $713,668, an amount that represents a 10 percent cut from last year's budget.
The bad news is that the average property owner will see a net increase on property taxes, which will amount to about a $25 bump on homes valued at $125,000.
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)
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