RANGELEY — Ron Smith of RHR Smith & Company presented the completed 2012-13 town audit at Tuesday’s selectmen meeting. Smith said that because revenue projections had come in a little higher than expected and expenses a little lower, the town is in good financial shape. The reserve accounts total about $9 million, with $1.6 million […]
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Livermore panel assured cemetery maintenance complies with new law
LIVERMORE — The Cemetery Committee met with veterans’ advocate Don Simoneau on Wednesday night to see if the town is doing what is required in caring for veterans’ graves under a new law passed by the state Legislature this year. They were assured that the town was doing a good job, town Administrative Assistant Kurt […]
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Monmouth Cemetery Association upset by student help
MONMOUTH — Students from Monmouth Academy and Monmouth Middle School had no idea that when they spruced up the Monmouth Center Cemetery, they would receive a civics lesson from a disgruntled cemetery association. On Oct. 28, as part of a history lesson, social studies teacher Jocelyn Gray led a group of 15 students on a […]
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Cemetery provides lessons, way for Auburn students to help
AUBURN — Edward Little is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. So is Rachel Goff, who gave Auburn its name, and Jacob Roak, who provided shoe manufacturing jobs for returning Civil War veterans. Auburn Middle School seventh-graders learned some history Wednesday when they photographed and documented graves at the cemetery at 7th Street and Riverside Drive. […]
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Winthrop mother, daughter spend weekend in jail accused of ramming vehicles, headstones at cemetery
MONMOUTH — An argument between a mother and daughter on Friday night led to a demolition derby-style fight — with both women using their vehicles to ram each other — that significantly damaged headstones at the Monmouth Ridge Cemetery, officials say. Granite headstones bearing the family names of Spear, Littlefield, Haskell and others lay in […]