GREENE — Students at Greene Central School, classmates of 6-year-old Nathan Capponi, remembered their friend Thursday with cards and drawings attached to a tree at the back corner of the school’s playground. School officials said grief counselors were on hand as the community dealt with the child’s death. “Nathan was a vivacious, vibrant boy who was […]
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Boy killed by plow truck in Greene
GREENE — A 6-year-old boy died Wednesday after being struck by a plow truck driven by his father, police said. Nathan Capponi was playing in his driveway on a scooter at 6:45 a.m. when his father backed up the plow truck without seeing the boy, Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland. Nathan was taken to […]
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Correction: Road names misidentified
TURNER — A story on the bridge between Turner and Greene published on Page A1 Monday should have said the bridge connects North River Road in Greene and Center Bridge Road in Turner. The information was incorrectly reported.
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Boiling sap ‘just for fun’
Ray Gagne boils sap he collected around his North River Road farmhouse in Greene on Monday afternoon. “It went from summer back to winter and they pretty much stopped running. I’m just boiling down what I have left that was frozen before tomorrow’s storm. With the forecast, I hope to be back at it next […]
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New bridge under way linking Turner and Greene on Route 117
TURNER — Work has begun on a new 480-foot bridge across the Androscoggin River, connecting Greene and Turner. Contractor Reed & Reed designed and is building the bridge at a cost of nearly $7.4 million, said Catherine Mettey, a resident engineer with the Maine Department of Transportation. The deck of the existing 462-foot bridge, built […]
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G. Stanley: Law hamstrings flea markets
Greene selectmen are wrong to ban yard sales and flea markets. I doubt if they or many residents have stopped to study the ordinance in its entirety. Many residents are in violation of the severe restrictions, allowing only three days of sales per year. For decades, several individuals in town operated very small, very quiet, […]
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Voters in Greene pass smaller budget
Townspeople approved a spending plan of $1.2 million, about $36,000 less than the amount raised for 2012. But that amount does not include school taxes. Town Manager Charles A. Noonan told the 100 or so townspeople at the Greene Central School gymnasium that a lack of school budget figures made it difficult to come up […]
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Greene referendum, annual meeting planned for Friday, Saturday
GREENE — Voters in Greene will weigh the 2013 budget, elect a pair of selectmen and decide the fate of a controversial ordinance this weekend. On Friday, a referendum scheduled for 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Town Office will include the ordinance issue and the selectmen ballot. Incumbent Selectmen Ronald Grant and Donald […]
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B. Theriault: Businesses subject to rules
When Greene voters go to the polls on March 1, they will be asked to vote on Article 3 which reads “Shall the town vote to annul, revoke, rescind Tag Sales, Flea Market ordinance.” The wording is exactly as the petitioner wrote it as Maine Municipal requires. There were 77 voters signed in when the […]