AUBURN — Androscoggin County commissioners met Wednesday — only six days before the county jail’s budget year ends — to figure out how to pay a just-discovered $70,000 shortfall. “Every bill has been paid, with the exception of one bill that somehow slipped through,” County Treasurer Robert Poulin said. The bill, a $70,519 payment on […]
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Chamberlain tops Hill in Androscoggin commission race
LEWISTON — Samuel Chamberlain will face Republican Ronald Chicoine in November for Androscoggin County’s 2nd District seat on the expanding County Commission. Vote results Tuesday night were Chamberlain, 333; Walter Hill, 196. Hill, 45, has served on a variety of local boards, including the Planning Board and the school board. Chamberlain, 20, works at the […]
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Sheriff weighs layoffs and service cuts at county jail
AUBURN — If the state continues to squeeze county jail budgets, keeping the Androscoggin County Jail open would mean cutting its inmate population, slashing jail services to local police and eliminating at least five corrections officers, Sheriff Guy Desjardins said. On Thursday morning, Desjardins began meetings with the county’s police chiefs to discuss the changes, […]