CANTON — Part one of Canton’s annual town meeting balloting was resolved at the polls Tuesday in the new Town Office with voters overwhelmingly approving beginning the withdrawal process from Regional School Unit 10. Voters had to decide 14 referendum questions, the ‘biggest’ of which was whether to start withdrawal proceedings and take $10,000 from […]
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Rain, Elliotts restore Canton Lake beauty
CANTON — Standing barefoot on the beach at Lake Anasagunticook on Saturday morning after a rainstorm, Molly Elliott was in her element three hours into raking woody debris from the sandy shore. For the past seven years, she and her husband, Gus, have been cleaning the beach and roadside. They live in the house opposite […]
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Canton Lake couple recognized for erosion control plantings
CANTON — Retirees Liz and Gerry Rothrock moved to Lake Shore Drive in Canton a year ago from the Washington, D.C., area and built a year-round home on Lake Anasagunticook. On Saturday morning, Diane Ray of Canton and the nonprofit Maine Lakes Society presented them with a LakeSmart program award for building their home with sustainable […]
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Canton Planning Board approves one project, denies another
CANTON — The Planning Board on Thursday evening approved an application to build a deck on a home on Jewett Hill Road and denied an application to construct a two-story building on the old fire station lot. They also discussed doing research to create a beach ordinance to try to prevent people from letting their […]
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Canton Water District plans water main extension
CANTON — The Canton Water District is applying for grants to extend its water main from the downtown to the new Town Office and fire station on Route 108, Superintendent Debi Hutchins told selectmen last week. “We’re trying to get decent water to the fire station, but there is no financial obligation (on the town’s […]
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Canton tax rate to drop after town meeting
CANTON — Town meeting voters will pay less in taxes this year, thanks to a proposed municipal budget that came in lower than last year’s budget and a reduction in the school assessment, Administrator Scotty Kilbreth said Wednesday afternoon. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. A 14-question referendum election will […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Office
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 198 calls from May 26 to June 1. Among them were: * At about 11 p.m. May 30, Deputy Nathan Bowie and Paris police officer William Grover responded to a domestic disturbance on Stearns Hill Road in West Paris. On arrival, Bowie said family members told […]
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Canton may have resolved sand/salt shed compliance issue with MDOT
CANTON — Buying the old Maine Department of Transportation facility on Jewett Hill Road last August may have spared Canton from MDOT’s April ultimatum to build a sand and salt shed. Selectmen Brian Keene said late Tuesday afternoon that after town meeting voters approved buying the building in June, selectmen and MDOT signed off on […]
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Canton board gets road reports, remembers ‘Dad’ Vashaw
CANTON — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to schedule a meeting with Hartford selectmen in Hartford to resolve a road-plowing matter. They also got an update on the final cost of the Staples Hill Road project and shared memories and a moment of silence for longtime Canton resident Norman Vashaw, 88, who passed away May 10 […]
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Spring drought, beavers keeping Canton Lake level down
CANTON — Selectmen said Thursday night that it’s time to start doing rain dances to fill Lake Anasagunticook in Canton and Hartford. All the nearly 2-mile-long lake needs is runoff from 3 to 4 inches of rain in one or two storms in the watershed and a beaver dam removed from lake inlet Sparrow Brook. […]