ROXBURY — Residents voted at the annual town meeting Monday evening to raise and/or appropriate $2,500 to create a town website, Board of Selectmen Chairman John Sutton said Tuesday morning. Sutton said selectmen will put the job out to bid this year after “we figure out what we want the website to include.” “One resident […]
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Otisfield voters approve budget, park lease deal, land trust request
OTISFIELD — Town meeting voters on Saturday approved a $1.5 million municipal budget and gave selectmen the thumbs up on their proposed Heniger Park lease agreement, which would extend leases on town-owned lakeside property by 99 years. Voters also appropriated money to help the Western Foothills Land Trust acquire a large parcel of working forest […]
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Otisfield town meeting set for Saturday
OTISFIELD — Voters will be asked to approve a $1.58 million municipal budget at the annual town meeting Saturday. Action on the 26-article warrant begins at 9 a.m. June 28 at the Otisfield Community Hall on Route 121. The municipal budget requests amount to about a 3 percent increase over last year’s $1.47 million. Hal […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Norway voters put aside money for future fire substation
NORWAY — Voters at Monday night’s annual town meeting approved a $4.4 million budget, money to buy land for a fire substation and an ordinance on delaying demolition of historic buildings. A narrow majority of voters approved a request by fire Chief Dennis Yates to set aside $20,000 for the future purchase of land in […]
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Norway voters to decide on new equipment, future fire substation
NORWAY — Voters will be asked to approve a $4.4 million municipal budget during the annual town meeting Monday, June 16, at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Forum in Paris. Action on the 43-article warrant begins at 7 p.m. Among the articles are one requesting money for a new dump truck, a new sidewalk […]
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Kingfield voters approve small spending increase, road improvements
KINGFIELD — Voters quickly dispatched 41 warrant articles and the election of four officials at the annual town meeting Saturday. The handful of townspeople reviewed a proposed allocation of $971,152, and a $147,000 offset of tax-increment financing funds from Poland Spring. Within two hours, 41 voters approved the majority of warrant articles as written, authorizing […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Rumford approves 7 percent interest charge on late taxes
RUMFORD — Residents voted 57-37 at Monday evening’s annual town business meeting to set charges on all unpaid taxes after the due date at 7 percent, and that 3 percent interest be paid on overpayment of taxes. The article also stated that the due dates for the collection of property taxes will be set on […]
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Sabattus sets warrant for May 22 annual town meeting
SABATTUS — Selectmen and the Budget Committee are almost unanimous in their recommendations for next month’s annual town meeting, scheduled for May 22. Among the meeting’s 39 planned articles, the two elected groups agreed on all but two. In one item, the Budget Committee recommended spending about $2,500 less on the administration’s $282,501 budget. In […]
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Dixfield voters approve assigning $20,000 from surplus to overdrawn Executive Department budget
DIXFIELD — Voters at town meeting Thursday night agreed to appropriate $20,000 from the undesignated surplus account to supplement the executive department budget, which was overdrawn Interim Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky said the executive department “is bearing some unusual and hopefully one-time costs this year.” He added, “Over the last year, we’ve had one full-time […]
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Dixfield voters approve $342,598 Police Department budget recommendation
DIXFIELD — Residents voted 43-11 to approve a recommended $342,598 Police Department budget during Monday evening’s annual town meeting, which will be voted on by secret ballot during the June 10 referendum. After last year’s town meeting, a straw poll indicated the majority of residents preferred to vote on the budget at the polls after […]