LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen have agreed to set up a five-member search committee for a town manager and have two selectmen look for an interim manager in the meantime. For now, Chairman Jim Long, with backup from Vice Chairman Ernie Souther, will handle town manager duties. Town Manager Amanda Allen resigned as of Tuesday. A […]
Androscoggin County
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Poland, Mechanic Falls, Minot voting on school budget Tuesday
Local budget referendums and town elections will be held Tuesday in Mechanic Falls and Poland. Minot will only vote on the Regional School Unit 16 budget because its budget was set in March. The Mechanic Falls municipal budget for fiscal 2023-24 is $3.6 million, which represents a 8.7% increase over the current year’s budget of […]
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Court resolves hundreds of cases in two-week blitz, Androscoggin County DA says
The purpose of the two-week blitz was to help lessen the huge backlog of cases before the court.
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Livermore Falls increases police hourly wages to stay competitive
Selectmen approved a $4.50 an hour retention bonus on Tuesday.
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Livermore Falls town manager resigns
Selectmen authorized payment of a settlement to Amanda Allen under an employment agreement.
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Poland waste station project gets good report from feds
POLAND — Town Manager Matt Garside told the Select Board on Tuesday night that the Transfer Station improvement project was found to “have no significant environmental impact” by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The town was awarded a grant of $598,000 by the EPA “to improve the capability and capacity” of its waste Transfer Station […]
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Tom Doak retires after decades of fire service in Wilton, Rangeley
Doak was also in the emergency medical service, including as a paramedic for 25 years. His father, himself and 14 others started an ambulance service in Rangeley.
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Mechanic Falls foreclosed on property, but can it keep the sale money?
MECHANIC FALLS — The Town Council on Monday night accepted the high bid of $40,400 for the .7 acre lot at 83 Pigeon Hill Road, which was foreclosed on due to unpaid taxes. But according to a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision May 25 in Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, the town may only keep […]
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Lisbon graduates encouraged to ‘surrender to the uncertainty’
When Laura Craig graduated from high school 20 years ago, she assumed life was linear. But speaking at the Class of 2023 graduation ceremony Sunday, the former Lisbon High School secretary encouraged the soon-to-be graduates to approach their lives differently.
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New farmers market to open next week in Turner
The weekly farmers market will be held in front of the former Natural History Club building in Turner center beginning Tuesday.