DIXFIELD — Voters at Wednesday night’s special town meeting overwhelmingly approved four budgets for town accounts, three weeks after rejecting them. The meeting at Dirigo High School drew 50 residents, far fewer than the approximately 750 who cast ballots for the 2015-16 municipal budget June 9 at the polls. On Wednesday, voters, by a show […]
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Dixfield selectmen vote to schedule July 1 special town meeting
DIXFIELD – The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted to schedule a special town meeting for 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, to vote on the four budget items rejected at the June 9 referendum. The budgets were for Executive Department, Regional Expenses, Reserve Funds and Debt Service. Newly-elected board Chairman Hart Daley said that “after the […]
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Dixfield voters reject six budget articles
DIXFIELD — Residents rejected six budget articles on Tuesday’s referendum ballot, ballot warden Theresa Hemingway said Wednesday morning. For the second-consecutive year, residents rejected the proposed Executive Department budget. The vote was 346-391. The Board of Selectmen recommended $302,113, while the Finance Committee recommended $306,513. The requested amount was $317,197. Hemingway said voters also rejected […]
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Dixfield selectmen vote to place time constraints on Jake brake usage
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Monday evening to prohibit the use of Jake brakes on Holman Corner on Route 2 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Discussion on the issue began at the June 9 selectmen meeting when police Chief Richard Pickett said he had heard complaints from residents about the excessive […]
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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 […]