LIVERMORE — Selectpersons on Tuesday awarded a three-year mowing contract to Robert Martin of Livermore Falls and a trash-hauling contract to Pine Tree Waste of Lewiston. A decision on the mowing bids was tabled this month because the advertisement requested bidders include the annual price per year for three years, an equipment list, proof of […]
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Livermore Falls budget public hearing April 23
LIVERMORE FALLS — A public hearing on the 2018 town budget will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 23, at the Town Office. The annual town meeting referendum on the budget takes place Tuesday, June 12. Selectmen have set the spending plan at $2.49 million, an increase of more than $130,000 over last year. Budget […]
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Fatal overdose leads to arrest of Wilton man
WILTON — The weekend overdose death of a Wyman Township man led to the arrest of a Temple Road man Wednesday. Dennis Ayala, 55, was arrested by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and Wilton Police Department on a charge of aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs. “We are not implicating Ayala in the death of the […]
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RSU 9 board approves $35.5M budget
FARMINGTON — The Regional School Unit 9 board of directors approved a $35.5 million budget for 2018-19 on Tuesday night. It will go to a districtwide budget meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, May 7, at the Mt. Blue Campus, followed by a validation vote May 15 at polling stations in the 10 district towns. The […]
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Kingfield to decide on retail pot in June
KINGFIELD — Voters will decide at the June town meeting whether to allow retail marijuana establishments in town. Selectmen on Monday decided to ask townspeople to vote on their level of interest in pursuing options to regulate such establishments. Licensed medical marijuana facilities are not included in the retail establishment category and would not be affected […]
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New rec building, cruiser for Wilton
WILTON — Selectpersons on Tuesday approved bids for town improvements, wage increases and a new police cruiser. To pay for the Recreation Department’s new office building, the board accepted a bid from Franklin Savings Bank for a loan. The interest rate of the loan will be 3.49 percent, and the town will make one payment per […]
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New Sharon Girl Scouts clean up roads for Earth Day
Members of New Sharon Girl Scout Troop 212, their friends and families collected several bags of trash along town roads as an Earth Day project Tuesday. The event was sponsored by the New Sharon Community Improvement Team. In front, from left, are Kaden Allen, Lily Ayer, Aiden Ayer, Joey Rackliff, Emmah-Jean Emery, Miah Emery and […]
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Jay man sentenced in shooting death over drug debt
AUGUSTA — Timothy S. Danforth of Jay will spend six years in prison for fatally shooting Michael Reis in June 2016 in a dispute over a $200 marijuana debt, a judge ruled Wednesday. The sentence for the 26-year-old former Wilton man was imposed Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center. Reis, 24, of New Sharon, was […]
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Livermore Falls Fire Station renovations complete
LIVERMORE FALLS — Fire Chief Edward Hastings IV told selectmen Tuesday evening that the fire station renovations are substantially complete. “We’re back in the fire station,” he said. “Almost all of our equipment is there.” Hastings said a few remaining tools stored at the former Livermore Falls High School would be returned to the station […]
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Wilton woman found not criminally responsible, is committed
LEWISTON — A Wilton woman who stole a young girl’s flip-flops then made her watch as she used the toilet was found not criminally responsible and committed to a psychiatric hospital, according to court records. Chrystal Rose, 36, had been indicted by an Androscoggin County grand jury on nine charges, including two felonies. The charges […]