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Lisbon hires new finance director

Elizabeth Deveraux has worked for various auditing firms in the past decade and a half with budgeting and cash reconciliations.

Eligible residents, 65 and older, can get up to $1,000 off their property tax bills.

Faye Brown was a fixture in the Lisbon community for many years and got her hands dirty to bring beauty to the town.

The interim town manager last week presented a proposed budget that would lower taxes, but it was off by more than $600,000.

After a spike in property tax bills last year, the town’s budget proposal reduces spending by nearly $1 million.

A cat that lived in the home was unaccounted for a day after the blaze at 104 Ferry Road.

Councilors said they want more information on the mill’s potential uses before getting public input.

In recent years town councilors have expressed an interest in bringing the department under town management.

The state’s largest brewery doubled its pledge to use 1 million pounds of Maine grain, relying in part on Lisbon’s Blue Ox Malthouse.

The homeowners escaped the early morning fire safely.