Selectwoman Carole Robbins retained her seat on the select board for another three-year term with 59 votes while Brian Keene filled the other three-year term for selectman with 61 votes. Both ran unopposed.
Marianne Hutchinson
Marianne Hutchinson is a general assignment reporter for the Rumford Falls Times. She has worked for the Times for three years covering the RSU 10 and RSU 56 school boards encompassing the towns of Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield and other nearby towns in the River Valley area. She also covers the selectmen’s and town meetings and other activities of the towns of Canton and Andover. Marianne has lived in Lewiston for 33 years with her husband, Dennis. She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in Journalism and advertising. Before becoming a reporter for the Times she held various positions as an educational technician for English as a Second Language students of Lewiston schools and as a proofreader and production editor for Pine Tree Composition, a former typesetting company in Lewiston. In her spare time, she loves to read books, especially memoirs, and articles from newspapers and magazines. She also likes to attend exercise classes at the YMCA in Auburn or go for bike rides with her husband and friends. During the winter months she enjoys snowshoeing and cross-country skiing with family and friends.
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Andover Selectman Justin Thacker reelected
ANDOVER — Selectman Justin Thacker was reelected Tuesday with 79 votes for another three years, Town Clerk Melinda Averill said in a text message. There were six write-in votes, she said. Eighty-five voters cast ballots. Thacker was elected in February to fill the seat held by Jeff Elkie, who resigned in November. School board representatives […]
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Andover residents approve almost every article at town meeting on 2023-24 budget
Residents approved spending $900,000 on a bond to be used to reconstruct East Andover Road.
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Buckfield High School graduates 32 seniors
The class of 2023 faced the pandemic during freshman year and overcame many obstacles, said Valedictorian Emma Stevens-Belanger.
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Canton leaders vote to replace culverts, move veterans memorial
Money approved to replace up to 13 culverts.
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Retiring school board director Jerry Wiley of Buckfield is honored
Wiley has served as a member on the RSU 10 board and on prior boards that eventually morphed into RSU 10 for 51 years.
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Andover voters to decide on major road reconstruction
Residents are scheduled to vote on 63 articles including whether to raise $70,786 for the transfer station budget, an increase of $8,786 from this year.
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Voters in Rumford-based school district approve $33.26 million budget
Referendum voting on the 2023-24 school budget is set for June 13 at locations in each of the district’s seven towns.
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Canton selectmen postpone town meeting to wait for audit
Vice chairwoman says 2021-22 financial accounting not finished.
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Dixfield-based district approves money to keep high school soccer
DIXFIELD — Residents of Regional School Unit 56 voted 34-2 Tuesday to add $18,800 to the proposed annual budget to keep the boys and girls high school soccer program next year. All 21 articles were passed by residents of Canton, Carthage, Dixfield and Peru at the annual district budget meeting at Dirigo High School. Bethany […]