POLAND — Select Board members were shown the final design sketches for the expansion of Ricker Memorial Library at Tuesday night’s meeting. The architect in charge of the plan, Michael Giasson, said the children’s room will be expanded, allowing for separate play area as well as a reading room. Giasson said a trio of windows […]
Androscoggin County
Mechanic Falls Town Council backs lower Water Department budget
The department’s proposed budget for 2023 is $478,014, or $107,054 less than the $585,068 approved for 2022.
Petition asks Livermore Falls Select Board to take no confidence vote on town manager’s leadership
Town Manager Amanda Allen said most allegations in the 5-page, nonbinding petition are untrue.
Livermore Falls house destroyed in fire, man burns hand
‘Christmas is gone but everyone is fine. Luckily we have each other,’ Atoria Austin, a resident of the house that burned, said.
Mark LaFlamme: The sad and mysterious death of Jason Lavoie
Street Talk: Some deaths hit particularly hard in the local community and this was one of those from the start. And the sad news was compounded a great deal by the inexplicable nature of Lavoie’s death.
How homeless people are counted in Maine
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided data since 2007, based on estimates from service providers who seek to count people in homeless shelter, people in communities without shelter and more considerations.
Homeless in Maine: Record-setting estimates come as winter’s bite threatens the vulnerable
Escalating costs for housing, food and fuel have officials especially concerned as cold weather sets in and as estimates grow for people unable to find stable housing.
Range ponds’ water quality draws capacity crowd in Poland
POLAND — A capacity crowd attended Tuesday’s workshop by the Select Board to discuss an algal bloom in Middle Range Pond this summer, which prompted questions about the cause and concerns about water quality on the three Range ponds. The board invited residents and officials from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Range […]
Spruce Mountain school furnace temporarily out of oil
LIVERMORE — Officials discovered early Wednesday morning that the boiler at Spruce Mountain Primary School was out of oil. “I was notified at 7:45 a.m. that the boiler was down because of not enough fuel,” Superintendent Scott Albert wrote in an email Thursday. “Since yesterday was a half-day anyways we decided to keep the students and […]
CMP restores power across Androscoggin County after Wednesday night storm
Fallen trees took out power lines Wednesday night.