JAY — Selectpersons will hold a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20, in the cafeteria at Spruce Mountain Middle School. Afterward, they will set a budget for 2017-18 and the Budget Committee will make recommendations on it. Earlier that day, selectpersons will hold an executive session on contract negotiations at 3 p.m. at […]
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Jay to consider paying recreation costs from reserve account
JAY — At their next meeting to be rescheduled because of today’s storm, selectpersons will consider taking $30,180 from the town’s recreation reserve account to pay for insurance, a snowmobile and the summer recreation program. Of that amount, $11,025 is for insurance for Spruce Mountain Ski Slope and $2,500 for Area Youth Sports; $4,655 for […]
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Norway town manager meeting with code enforcement officer applicants
NORWAY — Town Manager David Holt told selectmen Thursday evening that he has met with a couple of applicants for code enforcement officer. Code Enforcement Officer Joelle Corey-Whitman recently announced she was hired for the same position in Oxford. “Joelle is still helping us to some degree while we look for a new (code enforcement […]
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River Valley Rotary Club donates money to four libraries
DIXFIELD — The River Valley Rotary Club donated $100 to four local libraries to promote literacy. Peggy Malley, librarian at the Ludden Memorial Library in Dixfield, said she was one of four libraries to receive a donation. “It came as a complete surprise to me,” Malley said. “They came into the library, and I was […]
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Good Shepherd hopes Shaw’s reinstates donations statewide
AUBURN — News that Shaw’s Supermarkets had reversed its decision to discontinue donations to a Brunswick-area food bank earlier this week had officials at the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn hopeful the grocer would reinstate donations statewide. When Shaw’s discontinued donations of perishable foods that were near their expiration dates in 2013, the impact […]
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Donations for snowmobile club, AYS to go before Jay voters
JAY — Selectpersons decided Monday that money requests from Area Youth Sports and the Andy Valley Riders Snowmobile Club need to go to voters at the town meeting in April. The town’s share of insurance for Spruce Mountain Ski Slope goes through the budget. The amount paid in July was $11,025. Selectpersons agreed last year […]
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Spruce Mountain students pick apples for food pantries
LIVERMORE — Students from Spruce Mountain High School in Jay picked hundreds of pounds of apples at Shackley Hill Orchard on Thursday for distribution to needy families. The apples will be split between Tri-Town Ministerial Food Bank and the Fayette Baptist Church. Barbara Jewett, instructor for the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program at the high school, said about 18 students […]
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Woman charged with stealing from donation box
PARIS — Police credit tips from social media in helping them nab a woman suspected of stealing money from the local animal shelter’s donation box at a gas station last week. Shella Sessions, 29, of Paris, was given a summons on a charge of theft Tuesday, Paris Police Lt. Jeff Lange said. She is accused […]
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Funeral notices for Thursday, July 23, 2015
BERUBE — Bertrand E., 68, a resident of Lewiston, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, July 18, at Central Maine Medical Center. Memorial services honoring Bert’s life will be held Sunday, July 26, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Memorial donations in Bert’s memory may be made to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, 51 Blossom St., […]