BUCKFIELD — Selectmen voted Tuesday night to award contracts for road work to Maynard & Sons Trucking of Sumner and D & D Excavating of Buckfield. Cindy Dunn, town manager and road commissioner, said there is much work to be done and both contractors working in different parts of town could get it done before […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Newry: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Newry: SAD 44, Public hearing on withdrawal, 7 p.m., Bear River Grange Hall Sumner: Planning Board, 5 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Assessors, 8 a.m., Town Office Buckfield: Planning Board, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: […]
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Cuts to Buckfield’s rescue department to be hammered out Wednesday
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen and Rescue Department officials will return to the drawing board Wednesday to etch a plan to cut $52,000 from the budget, which could threaten the town’s 24-hour emergency medical coverage. In June, voters slashed the tally from the department’s proposed budget at the annual town meeting. The decision was met with dismay […]
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Cuts to the Buckfield rescue budget may threaten emergency providers
BUCKFIELD — Positions at the Rescue Department will either be eliminated or have hours cut unless voters restore about $52,000 removed from the budget, according to the Chief Lisa Bennett. On Wednesday, Bennett said the cuts leave her with little option in an already “bare-bones” budget. “There’s no padding in my budget for a $52,000 […]
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Buckfield’s founder’s home for sale
BUCKFIELD — Over two centuries after his Georgian-style home was carved out from the wilderness, town founder Abijah Buck’s homestead is for sale. Built 14 years after Buck returned from the French-Indian war, circa 1791, Maine Preservation — the state’s sole nonprofit for historic homes — is selling the 2,400 square foot home and 30 […]
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Saint Joseph’s College names local graduates
STANDISH — On May 10, Saint Joseph’s College held its 101st Commencement. Among the 564 graduates are the following local students. Ariana Andrews-Wilson of Buckfield, Natalie Aylward of Rumford, Ashley Beaulieu of Durham, Chandel Bouthot of Lewiston, Jacob Brown of Lewiston, Kristen Brown of South Paris, Willie Brown of Fayette, Christopher Bryant of Gray, Lindsay […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Thursday Bethel: Recreation Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Road Committee, 6:30 p.m., […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Oxford Hills Bethel: Comprehensive Planning Committee, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Recreation Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Open Spaces Commission, 6:30 p.m., Community Center Casco: Board of Appeals, 7 p.m., Community Center Paris: Utility District trustees, 6:30 p.m., wastewater treatment facility River Valley Bethel: Comprehensive Planning Committee, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 […]
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P. Horsfall: Another chance to vote
A meeting has been scheduled to take yet another vote on the Buckfield Rescue Department’s budget that was voted down in the annual town meeting. This new vote will be taken on Aug. 16. The budget was sent to the selectmen to downsize some $50,000 from the requested amount. Why vote in the annual town […]