If her boyfriend/husband made so much money, it would probably have been cheaper to enter a plea deal, pay back the money and not be faced with the possibility of jail time.
This program should be presented at every school in the state, if it saves one life it will be worth it.
Congratulations to all involved for such a powerful performance.
Based on the number of vehicles seen at the business I would be surprised if they will survive in an area already saturated by sandwiches and pizzas shops, etc., we certainly didn't need another one.
Personally I can not afford to patronize them because of there prices are out of my league as a senior citizen.
Was this session advertised, so people were aware that it was happening?
I would like to be a part of this program because I work for a senior citizen housing complex in Rumford and none of my residents were aware this was happening. I recently contacted the Mexico police department about phone calls my tenants were getting to give to there Explorer program, granted this is a worthwhile program but on the other hand we tell our seniors not to fall victim to giving to these calls.
I will post a notice of the next two meetings so they will know.
I would like to see all senior housing complex's contacted so they can alert their tenants about these meetings.
And people wonder why Paul Lepage is upset with welfare and the millions of dollars wasted on deadbeats.
I am a 72 year old retiree and work 25-30 hours a week to supplement my income, and yes I know some people are going to say I am working on a job that some younger person could take, but the trouble is if you asked them to work they have a list of excuses why they can't.It appears i'm the dumb one here, maybe I should say the hell with it and reap the benefits just like them, but there is one thing stopping me it's called "pride".
If they have nothing to hide, then they should welcome it to prove there has been no wrongdoing, but I would suspect the results will be the same as what was found in the Turnpike Authority fiasco.
This article fails to mention what a huge cost savings this winter has been on municipalities for snow removal and fuel savings when the temperatures are above average.
The article states that Elephants have been known to attack people who try to train them,or torment them. Hopefully if he is allowed to bring the Elephant here the Elephant will attack him and get sent back to Oklahoma to live out the rest of her life. Problem Solved.
What does it mean when they say some have been commissioned and other are waiting?
What is involved to have them commissioned?
Erin,
You state in the first paragraph that the "projects were able to go online without making a sound this month ". Maybe in your mind there was no sound, but some people fought hard to prevent these projects from coming to fruition and as always the media is showing one side of the story. I would challenge you and your Sun-Journal staff to do a story on the other side of this and talk to the people who fought hard and tirelessly.
The only things these projects accomplish is to line the pockets of former governor King and his honchos. I will await your followup article.
You should be using Lexan for applications like those described.
Plexiglas is very difficult to drill and or cut without breaking. Lexan can be drilled and cut with ease and will withstand the wind unlike Plexiglas. Although it may be a little more pricey it is well worth it.
(It may be well to post this in a future sunspots.)
It's a shame that people like Mrs. Bouchard could be affected, but the system has gotten way out of hand. It's obvious that she has some severe health issues and I wish her the best.
But you and I know people who are on Maincare that don't deserve to be in the system. They are too lazy to work so they find out who the Doctors are that will assist them to get on the program and away we go.
The ones who have legitimate issues are the ones who will suffer.
I know a local individual who is on Maincare, has a handicap plate on his new truck to haul his snowmobile and 4 wheeler around and I would bet he's not hauling them for weight in the winter for traction.
Your right he is not a people person and lets hope he doesn't change. He is not a typical politician and that's a good thing.
He is exactly what this state needs someone who is willing to call a spade a spade and to hell with you if you don't like it. This state needs to see some reform soon or were all going down the tubes.
This is not about being a Republican, a Democrat a Green, or any other party it's about what is right for the state.
Why don't you take the time to walk in the shoes of law enforcement and maybe then you would have a better idea of what these situations bring. You and I don't need to know what happened. Let the authorities sort this out.
I myself am totally against wind towers, but I will be voting YES on this ballot question, because by now we all should know if the State has control on wind towers we will not have any local control.
Thanks Rick for taking it to the competition. Prior to Rick opening MVV the other gas stations had a monopoly on the local market and never gave the river valley residents a break.I have bought my gas there since he opened and will continue to.
Does this mean that only customers in the Lewiston-Auburn-Oxford area are getting the extra channels now.
Customers in the Rumford area are not getting them now that the adapters are connected.
I hope you invite some executives from the Rumford hospital to attend. It's disgusting to walk by the front of the hospital and see the number of people, including employees smoking and then throwing there butts on the ground. At least provide containers for the butts.
I believe Jolene has created a "Critical Circumstance" herself and an item needs to be placed on the next agenda and have herself removed from the board. She's only been back on the board a short time and has not made a sensible decision yet.
This article contains some incorrect information:
The device is not a set top box it is called a digital adapter.
I installed 2 of these this past weekend and it took approximately 1 hour each,to get them installed correctly.
Oh by the way Time Warner will be more than happy to come to your home and install them for $17.99 no thank you.
The voters of Rumford need to be congratulated for being stupid enough to re-electing Jolene Lovejoy. She didn't have a clue when she was on the previous board and she has already made a fool of herself at the last two meetings. If you cant make an intelligent statement at a meeting then don't say anything.
All anyone has to do is drive by the garage and see that the remaining structure is not salvageable. It's going to end up right where the rest of the structure was.
It's time Rich stops playing Mr. nice guy and do his job, if he had been doing his job in the first place this situation would not have developed.
There is an age stipulation in the Social Security direct deposit where anyone over a certain age will not be required to have direct deposit,although I do not know what that age is.
Contact S/S for that determination.
How soon we forget what a mess Jolene Lovejoy left the town in and her and Jennifer Kreckel teamed up to add to the mess.
I am sure Steve Eldridge is still laughing all the way to the bank with the gift that these two helped give him.
It is time to change the charter and allow someone from out of town to be the town lawyer to prevent a conflict of interest.
It's easy for you to criticize some one, but I would challenge you to step in the shoes of a policeman and maybe idiots like you would respect them more.
I have not read about what kind of a compensation package Paul received when he left.
I would suspect him and the board had a very nice going away package for him.
This is so full of B/S, it's ridiculous.Here we are at a point when the state of Maine is in the financial state it's in and we are playing around with stupid bills such as this.How much will this cost the taxpayers?
If you don't know which bathroom to use, then hold it until you get home.
Congratulations to the sunspots staff, don't let one bad apple spoil the batch.
I for one enjoy this column tremendously and have used your information many times.
Keep up the good work.
Finally the goose is gone, whats wrong with this picture it is supposedly illegal to feed the goose and ducks, but people continue to feed them and allow them to be a health hazard, with the amount of feces they leave behind.
Why is this allowed to continue?
Glad to hear that they were able to track down the owners.
When the owners go before the judge, they should be made to pay for the expense of the deputies, animal control officers, etc.time tracking down these individuals.
Your excuse that voters didn't know what they were voting for has been used way too many times and it is a well known fact that the voters knew what they had done when they voted $0 funding regardless what the charter read.
I am not a state worker and I already voted for LePage and ALL Republicans on the ballot.i have been a registered Democrat for a long time and it's time we quit the tax and spend party.
I voted absentee ballot and although a registered Democrat who lives in Rumford, voted Republican for governor,senator, state representative, state senator it's time we sent a message.
The day he was going into Dick's we were leaving, to bad, I would have enjoyed telling him I already voted absentee and it definitely wasn't for him.
He says he's been a worker for 29 years, he failed to say he may be on the roster but he hasn't been working at the mill while he was in Washington making his lame decisions we would all be better off he was back at the mill.
Although this is not illegal, I noticed a Democrat running for State Senate area 92 going through the recycling bin at the Rumford Post Office to see who had thrown out his fliers he had recently mailed, he took them with him and left so he can see who the individuals were that had thrown their fliers away. Pretty unethical!!!
Now if the Rumford hospital would adopt a policy, so we don't have to walk through a smoke screen when entering the facility, that would be progress.
It is totally disgusting for a health care facility to allow this to happen.
which candidate is elected, within 6 months we will be ready for a change. They all make great promises and then never follow through.
These of the worst field of candidates to run for governor in recent memory.
I have to pick one and the best way would be to put them all in a bag, shake it and see which one ccmes out.
Who would waist their time going to hear the candidates and their empty promises.
No matter who is elected, within 6 months we will be wishing they were out of office already, and yes I will still be voting, but I hope some day in the future we will get some quality candidates to vote for.
comes up to a vote 75% of the people voting on it wont have a clue how to vote because they wont understand the ordinance, they will just vote based on what they are being told from either side of the issue.
fails to mention that RGH opened this home earlier this year, but closed it shortly after because the tenants they select did not comply with the lease they signed and were evicted.
You have to remember that a program is only as good as the people that administer it, and RGH does not have good track record with these transitional programs.
one is run better than the one they currently operate on Franklin Street, if not then you can expect the police to be there quite frequently.
They open these places up and provide little to no supervision and the biggest percentage of the tenants are either arrested or evicted.
I witnessed one woman who had twisted her ankle and said she called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital, because if she called a cab she would have to pay for it, but the ambulance was free because she was on Maine Care
I realize this has nothing to do about the article but look at the background in the picture, don't the selectmen believe in filing cabinets. I would be ashamed to have such disorganized files.
when the town hired Eldridge he had just got booted out of Rumford,I can't believe who would have bought his story on what he could do for Lisbon.
Obviously he wasn't alone in his mismanagement in Rumford but it's not hard to see that ultimately he was responsible.
I will vote for the candidate that has the best plan to do something about the out of control welfare system.
I am a senior citizen who retired and continue to work part time to supplement my income, I would love to see them put my 20 plus year old neighbors to work so I don't have to look at them sitting on their butt smoking and drinking, when I come home from work.
Welfare needs to turn into Workfare.
Brad say's he will play by the rules from either ordinance, since when has he played by the rules in the past?
I thought this was a selectman's meeting sounds like a shouting match among a bunch of kids trying to change the rules mid-stream. This shows what the caliber is of our elected board.
Their concerned about caps but allow students and staff to wear whatever they want below the head, in some cases it doesn't leave much to the imagination.
Sounds like my neighbors next door, they sit around all day, smoke cigarettes, do drugs,ignore their children and still receive assistance to support their habits.
But as hard as it seems Jocelyn don't stoop to their level.
This town should never hire a lawyer that live in their home town, Tom is probably a good lawyer but it doesn't make sense to have a lawyer from town.
The last I knew all other River Valley towns have lawyers out of town to prevent a conflict of interest.
If they pay that much Tron, why don't you apply and get a real job and you wont have so much time to bash people In the mean time walk a mile in their shoes.
To the lady with the stove problem, don't give up. Contact the distributor,and call the toll free number in your book. You have to be persistent and it will probably take several calls before you get results.
We had bought a brand new stove and the company would not replace it, but after contacting the distributor they found it had a bad element in it. Good luck.
Recent Comments
Question
If her boyfriend/husband made so much money, it would probably have been cheaper to enter a plea deal, pay back the money and not be faced with the possibility of jail time.
All Schools
This program should be presented at every school in the state, if it saves one life it will be worth it.
Congratulations to all involved for such a powerful performance.
Foam
I would check with Mardens because from time to time they have various sizes.
Business
Based on the number of vehicles seen at the business I would be surprised if they will survive in an area already saturated by sandwiches and pizzas shops, etc., we certainly didn't need another one.
Personally I can not afford to patronize them because of there prices are out of my league as a senior citizen.
Correction Receiving
Correction
Receiving medications.
Two Questions
Where is her other son?
Is she still driving while reeving treatments?
Too Light
He should have been sentenced to at least 10 years, 15 would have been better.
Local
What did Stanley's use a company from Madison to have their windows washed?
They expect us local people to buy local, but they go out of town to pay for services?
Great Job
Great job by all involved.
Thank god Wal-Mart had the video cameras.
Two words
Good ridance.
Zero
People stupid enough to get to the point they need Methodone, should pay for it themselves.
Hope
I hope my names on the list , then maybe I can retire again.
Meetings
Was this session advertised, so people were aware that it was happening?
I would like to be a part of this program because I work for a senior citizen housing complex in Rumford and none of my residents were aware this was happening. I recently contacted the Mexico police department about phone calls my tenants were getting to give to there Explorer program, granted this is a worthwhile program but on the other hand we tell our seniors not to fall victim to giving to these calls.
I will post a notice of the next two meetings so they will know.
I would like to see all senior housing complex's contacted so they can alert their tenants about these meetings.
Windbag
You screwed us when you were Governor, your screwing us now with your windmills maybe it's time for us to send you packing .
No one
No one on the list thus far is worth voting for, let's wait for this to all shake down and see if a viable candidate files papers.
Betty
I think if you looked at the facts you would see that this was inherited, and personally I applaud him for his effort to control it.
Reform
And people wonder why Paul Lepage is upset with welfare and the millions of dollars wasted on deadbeats.
I am a 72 year old retiree and work 25-30 hours a week to supplement my income, and yes I know some people are going to say I am working on a job that some younger person could take, but the trouble is if you asked them to work they have a list of excuses why they can't.It appears i'm the dumb one here, maybe I should say the hell with it and reap the benefits just like them, but there is one thing stopping me it's called "pride".
Remorse????
What a joke Paul is showing remorse, I hope he gets what he deserves 20 years.
He robbed from the tax payers of Maine and thought he was untouchable.
Hole
Crawl back in your hole and hide from society.
Sickening
Dan you can't miss an opportunity to mix politics in such a heart warming article.
It is scum bags like you that should be banned from posting.
Review
If they have nothing to hide, then they should welcome it to prove there has been no wrongdoing, but I would suspect the results will be the same as what was found in the Turnpike Authority fiasco.
No
What part of no don't people understand.
Remote
You should have an option on your remote so you can delete any given channel, unless you want a 5 year old to come over and do it.
Thanks
I would like to thank all the crews for there response to the water break.
We truly do have some of the most dedicated people around.
Congratulations
If this program prevents the death of just one student it will be time and money well spent.
Article
This article fails to mention what a huge cost savings this winter has been on municipalities for snow removal and fuel savings when the temperatures are above average.
Attack
The article states that Elephants have been known to attack people who try to train them,or torment them. Hopefully if he is allowed to bring the Elephant here the Elephant will attack him and get sent back to Oklahoma to live out the rest of her life. Problem Solved.
Commissioned?
What does it mean when they say some have been commissioned and other are waiting?
What is involved to have them commissioned?
Erin,
You state in the first paragraph that the "projects were able to go online without making a sound this month ". Maybe in your mind there was no sound, but some people fought hard to prevent these projects from coming to fruition and as always the media is showing one side of the story. I would challenge you and your Sun-Journal staff to do a story on the other side of this and talk to the people who fought hard and tirelessly.
The only things these projects accomplish is to line the pockets of former governor King and his honchos. I will await your followup article.
Plexiglas
You should be using Lexan for applications like those described.
Plexiglas is very difficult to drill and or cut without breaking. Lexan can be drilled and cut with ease and will withstand the wind unlike Plexiglas. Although it may be a little more pricey it is well worth it.
(It may be well to post this in a future sunspots.)
Shame
It's a shame that people like Mrs. Bouchard could be affected, but the system has gotten way out of hand. It's obvious that she has some severe health issues and I wish her the best.
But you and I know people who are on Maincare that don't deserve to be in the system. They are too lazy to work so they find out who the Doctors are that will assist them to get on the program and away we go.
The ones who have legitimate issues are the ones who will suffer.
I know a local individual who is on Maincare, has a handicap plate on his new truck to haul his snowmobile and 4 wheeler around and I would bet he's not hauling them for weight in the winter for traction.
People person
Your right he is not a people person and lets hope he doesn't change. He is not a typical politician and that's a good thing.
He is exactly what this state needs someone who is willing to call a spade a spade and to hell with you if you don't like it. This state needs to see some reform soon or were all going down the tubes.
This is not about being a Republican, a Democrat a Green, or any other party it's about what is right for the state.
What takes so lomg
It was no different when you were on the board, the only thing you accomplished was cutting a few trees.
Why don't you take the time
Why don't you take the time to walk in the shoes of law enforcement and maybe then you would have a better idea of what these situations bring. You and I don't need to know what happened. Let the authorities sort this out.
Thanks
Thanks to who ever it was that called it in.
Scumbag
When and if he is caught they should put him on public display so everyone can see who this scumbag is.
Congratulations
Congratulations on a job well done.
Pathetic
Any good college team could have beat the Patriots Sunday.
Shaw's
Why would anyone even shop at Shaw's with their ridiculously high prices?
No Brainer
I myself am totally against wind towers, but I will be voting YES on this ballot question, because by now we all should know if the State has control on wind towers we will not have any local control.
Beyond
Dan is beyond prayers.
Old enough
If there old enough to do the crime they are old enough to have there names in the papers.
Thanks
Thanks Rick for taking it to the competition. Prior to Rick opening MVV the other gas stations had a monopoly on the local market and never gave the river valley residents a break.I have bought my gas there since he opened and will continue to.
Question
Does this mean that only customers in the Lewiston-Auburn-Oxford area are getting the extra channels now.
Customers in the Rumford area are not getting them now that the adapters are connected.
Rumford Hospital
I hope you invite some executives from the Rumford hospital to attend. It's disgusting to walk by the front of the hospital and see the number of people, including employees smoking and then throwing there butts on the ground. At least provide containers for the butts.
Critical Circumstance
I believe Jolene has created a "Critical Circumstance" herself and an item needs to be placed on the next agenda and have herself removed from the board. She's only been back on the board a short time and has not made a sensible decision yet.
Incorrect information
This article contains some incorrect information:
The device is not a set top box it is called a digital adapter.
I installed 2 of these this past weekend and it took approximately 1 hour each,to get them installed correctly.
Oh by the way Time Warner will be more than happy to come to your home and install them for $17.99 no thank you.
Eyesore
Took a ride through the area on Saturday, already an eyesore.
Now picture this after all 22 are installed!
Congratulations
The voters of Rumford need to be congratulated for being stupid enough to re-electing Jolene Lovejoy. She didn't have a clue when she was on the previous board and she has already made a fool of herself at the last two meetings. If you cant make an intelligent statement at a meeting then don't say anything.
Stupidity
How could anyone be so stupid and bring politics into this subject. That only proves that you must be an idiot.
Maybe we can get lucky and they will mistake you for a dog and see how it feels. Show some compassion Dan.
Politicians
Nothing more than your typical politician at their best.
Salvageable
All anyone has to do is drive by the garage and see that the remaining structure is not salvageable. It's going to end up right where the rest of the structure was.
It's time Rich stops playing Mr. nice guy and do his job, if he had been doing his job in the first place this situation would not have developed.
Social Security
There is an age stipulation in the Social Security direct deposit where anyone over a certain age will not be required to have direct deposit,although I do not know what that age is.
Contact S/S for that determination.
Dynamic Duo
How soon we forget what a mess Jolene Lovejoy left the town in and her and Jennifer Kreckel teamed up to add to the mess.
I am sure Steve Eldridge is still laughing all the way to the bank with the gift that these two helped give him.
It is time to change the charter and allow someone from out of town to be the town lawyer to prevent a conflict of interest.
Asking for trouble
After what recently occurred in the area why would anyone be dumb enough to leave her door unlocked?
Flush Denny's
Wow I just heard a big flush after people read this, there goes there business down the toilet. They wont have to worry about there future.
Dan
It's easy for you to criticize some one, but I would challenge you to step in the shoes of a policeman and maybe idiots like you would respect them more.
IT's all in the name
There should have been a note that this is AWAP, but with a new name, Safe Voices, then more than likely it would have passed.
Who was responsible for the wording of this article?
Agree
I agree the secret-ballot election is the best thing that's happened in Rumford
Rock
That's exactly what should be done, Mark.
Ordinance
Does anyone know if this proposed ordinance will be available in print or on line so we can review it?
Blame Game
Sounds like a lot of accusations from all involved, what I would like to know is where in H*** was the gentleman's family.
Good Job
The sooner these characters are deported the better.
It's incidents like this that justifies all the support we can give our local police department.
Congratulations
Congratulations to you Lacey you deserve all the recognition you earned.
Welfare
And now you wonder why Paul LePage was so concerned about addressing the welfare abuse.
Right on Libby
I see what you mean, looks like a classic case of always putting the blame on someone else.
Roxanne has a pretty storied past record.
Mardens
Keep your eyes on the ads from Mardens it will probably show up for sale there.
Compensation Package
I have not read about what kind of a compensation package Paul received when he left.
I would suspect him and the board had a very nice going away package for him.
Increase the voltage
The police officers need to find a way to increase the voltage on these devices so the individual gets the message.
B/S
This is so full of B/S, it's ridiculous.Here we are at a point when the state of Maine is in the financial state it's in and we are playing around with stupid bills such as this.How much will this cost the taxpayers?
If you don't know which bathroom to use, then hold it until you get home.
Compensation Package
It would be interesting to know what kind of a compensation package Paul will receive for all his misdeeds.
Feedback
Congratulations to the sunspots staff, don't let one bad apple spoil the batch.
I for one enjoy this column tremendously and have used your information many times.
Keep up the good work.
ACS
ACS is the company that CMMC contracts with to collect past due accounts.
There address is listed as :
Advance Collection Services
P.O. Box 7103
Lewiston,ME 04243-7103
Phone: 795-2220 1-800-640-0545
I had problems with them several years ago and went to there office to resolve it.
Call
We received a call and the person was very rude and obnoxious.
Welfare reform
Welfare reform has been a long time coming, it" about time this is addressed.
Finally
Finally the goose is gone, whats wrong with this picture it is supposedly illegal to feed the goose and ducks, but people continue to feed them and allow them to be a health hazard, with the amount of feces they leave behind.
Why is this allowed to continue?
How
How are people selected to get on this board, I would love to get some of these perks?
Alias
I will stand up and be counted as a supporter of Gov. LePage, without using an alias.
Rumor
Rumor has it that Pizza Hut is going into the former Curves location?
Congratulations
Glad to hear that they were able to track down the owners.
When the owners go before the judge, they should be made to pay for the expense of the deputies, animal control officers, etc.time tracking down these individuals.
Danger
Where are the helmets for the driver and his 2 passengers?
Rose
Dennis Bailey will somehow come out of this smelling like a rose, scumbag that he is.
Excuses
Your excuse that voters didn't know what they were voting for has been used way too many times and it is a well known fact that the voters knew what they had done when they voted $0 funding regardless what the charter read.
Secretary
Lets hope the secretary gets rewarded for all the emotional torment this firm put her through, she is the hero in this situation.
Agree
I agree with you Mary, and if an individual does do this their on the road to be a successful politician.
How about
Bailey should put the money where his mouth is and pay the volunteers or go crawl back in his cave.
Tron
Tron go back in your cave if you don't have anything good to say.
Old Adage
Show me a politician and I'll show you a crook!
More
After Paul Tracy made that statement he should have been sentenced to an additional 24 years.
Spelling
Check your spelling before you post.
Saying
My father had a great saying that rings true "show me a politician and l"ll show you a crook".
Vote
Does anyone know how Mike voted on Pelosi remaining the speaker of the house recently? I would hope he voted against it.
How about
endangering the welfare of a child.
Results
Show the readers the results of the survey.
How many
industries offer an insurance package as lucrative as this.
Congratulations
The world needs more people like you, Dick.
Best man
It's pretty obvious the best man won.
Regardless of John's past record, this shows what kind of man he really is.
Update
Will we see an update on this story, to find out who won?
Terrible
The Patriots have been playing sub-par football all year and could have easily lost several of there games,not this time, reality struck.
Well foks
I am not a state worker and I already voted for LePage and ALL Republicans on the ballot.i have been a registered Democrat for a long time and it's time we quit the tax and spend party.
Yet
another reason to get a cell phone.
Voted
I voted absentee ballot and although a registered Democrat who lives in Rumford, voted Republican for governor,senator, state representative, state senator it's time we sent a message.
Missed him
The day he was going into Dick's we were leaving, to bad, I would have enjoyed telling him I already voted absentee and it definitely wasn't for him.
He says he's been a worker for 29 years, he failed to say he may be on the roster but he hasn't been working at the mill while he was in Washington making his lame decisions we would all be better off he was back at the mill.
Donation
It is time for the board to stamp all donation requests with a NO stamp.
Lyrics
Would it be possible to print the lyrics?
Picture
Great picture Stavros, straight out of the mafia files.
Picture
Great picture Stavros, straight out of the mafia files.
Unethical
Although this is not illegal, I noticed a Democrat running for State Senate area 92 going through the recycling bin at the Rumford Post Office to see who had thrown out his fliers he had recently mailed, he took them with him and left so he can see who the individuals were that had thrown their fliers away. Pretty unethical!!!
Fireworks
Brace your feet Rumford, BMOM will be back to request their annual donation for their private fireworks show.
Who
would have gone to the meeting to listen to more lies?
Hospital
Now if the Rumford hospital would adopt a policy, so we don't have to walk through a smoke screen when entering the facility, that would be progress.
It is totally disgusting for a health care facility to allow this to happen.
No matter
which candidate is elected, within 6 months we will be ready for a change. They all make great promises and then never follow through.
These of the worst field of candidates to run for governor in recent memory.
I have to pick one and the best way would be to put them all in a bag, shake it and see which one ccmes out.
Waisted time
Who would waist their time going to hear the candidates and their empty promises.
No matter who is elected, within 6 months we will be wishing they were out of office already, and yes I will still be voting, but I hope some day in the future we will get some quality candidates to vote for.
How much
does the S/J pay you Tron?
?
Did Madison use two goalies and MV none?
Come on S/J lets proof read the articles before posting.
When this
comes up to a vote 75% of the people voting on it wont have a clue how to vote because they wont understand the ordinance, they will just vote based on what they are being told from either side of the issue.
?
In one paragraph the article says they were in a SUV, then it says the warden spotted the plane from the air?
The article
fails to mention that RGH opened this home earlier this year, but closed it shortly after because the tenants they select did not comply with the lease they signed and were evicted.
You have to remember that a program is only as good as the people that administer it, and RGH does not have good track record with these transitional programs.
HE never
had intentions of coming anyway, it was just a ploy to attract more publicity, and money.
Mud
After all the mud has been slung and it comes time to vote I will still be voting NO, on both articles like I have done previously.
Right on Jaric,
I couldn't have said it better.
This would
be a good job for you Tron, seeing you are an expert at everything.
Lets hope this
one is run better than the one they currently operate on Franklin Street, if not then you can expect the police to be there quite frequently.
They open these places up and provide little to no supervision and the biggest percentage of the tenants are either arrested or evicted.
Maine Care
I witnessed one woman who had twisted her ankle and said she called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital, because if she called a cab she would have to pay for it, but the ambulance was free because she was on Maine Care
Pay
What did the S/J pay you to make these ridiculous comments?
Disgusting
This is more than childish, this is disgusting. Fire the bum.
Ashamed
I realize this has nothing to do about the article but look at the background in the picture, don't the selectmen believe in filing cabinets. I would be ashamed to have such disorganized files.
Typo
I believe the S/J should have proof read the article before posting it It should have read Lady Gag Her.
YES
YES
You should have seen it coming
when the town hired Eldridge he had just got booted out of Rumford,I can't believe who would have bought his story on what he could do for Lisbon.
Obviously he wasn't alone in his mismanagement in Rumford but it's not hard to see that ultimately he was responsible.
Party
That shows your intelligence in one word.
Vote
I will vote for the candidate that has the best plan to do something about the out of control welfare system.
I am a senior citizen who retired and continue to work part time to supplement my income, I would love to see them put my 20 plus year old neighbors to work so I don't have to look at them sitting on their butt smoking and drinking, when I come home from work.
Welfare needs to turn into Workfare.
Contact link
Why isn't there a contact link so you can comment on why you support a casino in Oxford, or are they afraid of the truth?
Rules
Brad say's he will play by the rules from either ordinance, since when has he played by the rules in the past?
I thought this was a selectman's meeting sounds like a shouting match among a bunch of kids trying to change the rules mid-stream. This shows what the caliber is of our elected board.
No Brainer
Take the $10.00 and send it to a legitimate organization, if you have money to give away.
Caps
Their concerned about caps but allow students and staff to wear whatever they want below the head, in some cases it doesn't leave much to the imagination.
Neighbors
Sounds like my neighbors next door, they sit around all day, smoke cigarettes, do drugs,ignore their children and still receive assistance to support their habits.
But as hard as it seems Jocelyn don't stoop to their level.
Town lawyer
This town should never hire a lawyer that live in their home town, Tom is probably a good lawyer but it doesn't make sense to have a lawyer from town.
The last I knew all other River Valley towns have lawyers out of town to prevent a conflict of interest.
If you receive a gift
If you receive a gift certificate, no matter where it is from, redeem it right off because they may be closed tomorrow.
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If they pay that much Tron,
If they pay that much Tron, why don't you apply and get a real job and you wont have so much time to bash people In the mean time walk a mile in their shoes.
To the lady with the stove
To the lady with the stove problem, don't give up. Contact the distributor,and call the toll free number in your book. You have to be persistent and it will probably take several calls before you get results.
We had bought a brand new stove and the company would not replace it, but after contacting the distributor they found it had a bad element in it. Good luck.
Well dontbotherasking it
Well dontbotherasking it takes a idiot to know one.
Why is Foden in this group,
Why is Foden in this group, he was cited for unsportsmanlike conduct several times this year?
I believe Jeff Sterling was
I believe Jeff Sterling was a good choice, but It would be interesting to know who else applied.
They need to adapt to our
They need to adapt to our lifestyles or send them packing, real simple.
Jennifer Stowell Norris has
Jennifer Stowell Norris has the intelligence and personality of my dead dog.