Charges Androscoggin County * Danielle Punnlon, 29, of 34 Thornton Lane, Litchfield, warrants, 8:19 p.m. Monday at the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office. * John McKay, 54, of 9 County Road, Lisbon, operating under the influence, 10:40 p.m. Monday on Fillion Street, Lisbon Police Department. * Steven Curan, 42, of 72 Hill Valley Road, Poland, domestic […]
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Litchfield OKs $1.67M budget
LITCHFIELD — More than 80 residents showed up Saturday morning to take part in the town’s annual meeting to finalize the 2012-13 operating budget. Town Manager Mike Byron said voters passed all 59 articles of the proposed $1,678,759 budget — including two specific articles aimed at improving the small town’s dated firetrucks and plow truck […]
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Litchfield to vote on firetrucks, new plow at town meeting Saturday
LITCHFIELD — Residents will vote Saturday at town meeting on a budget that includes improved firetrucks and a new plow truck. The $1,678,759 proposed budget is $78,000, or 4.6 percent, higher than the current year. Town Manger Mike Byron said there’s room in the town’s $1.2 million fund balance to pull that $78,000 and keep […]
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Spirit of America award winners honored
AUGUSTA — Recipients of the 2011 Spirit of America Foundation Award for outstanding community service throughout Maine were recognized during an April 6 ceremony at the Statehouse. Auburn Volunteers in Police Service have helped the Auburn Police Dept. in a variety of ways. Bowdoin FHC, Inc. runs several community projects, including fundraisers for the fire […]
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Proposed RSU 4 budget passes one vote; second community vote Tuesday
WALES — RSU 4 voters will go to the polls Tuesday for a referendum on a school budget with a 2.16 percent increase and no privatized busing next year. About 80 people gathered Wednesday night at Oak Hill High School to walk through the budget details and to vote department by department before sending it […]
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Oak Hill graduates 89
WALES — Inspired by a school motto, “Failure is not an option,” Sarah Desjardins told graduating classmates that, really, failure is inevitable, but it’s the aftermath that counts. “We need to take our failures and learn from them and grow from them and become better people,” she said Friday, recounting her valedictorian address. Desjardins spoke […]
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Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival: Music lovers will gather for four days of pickin’, lonesome harmonies
LITCHFIELD —It’s that time of year once again for the first of two Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festivals, bringing together music fans to hear banjos, fiddles, and high, lonesome harmonies. Performing June 14-17 at the Litchfield Fairgrounds will be The Lonesome River Band of Virginia, Saturday; The Little Roy & Lizzy Show of Georgia and Tennessee, Saturday; The Bluegrass Brothers of Virginia, […]
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Informational meetings called on repairs, future of Sabattus, Litchfield, Wales schools
WALES — After years of spending little on capital improvements, RSU 4 faces a choice, Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said. Borrow $1.8 million to make building repairs or go for a larger bond, close the two oldest elementary schools and build an addition for those students elsewhere. But where? The district has called two informational meetings […]
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First lady Ann LePage reads to students in Litchfield
LITCHFIELD — Ann LePage stopped reading aloud to point to a watercolor picture of her dog Baxter’s favorite sleeping spot at the end of the bed. “My feet are the pretty feet — the others belong to the governor,” she said. Maine’s first lady visited Carrie Ricker School to read “Baxter in the Blaine House” […]
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Of bulldozers, a stolen dog and ‘that girl’
A number of public works departments in Androscoggin County hosted a really cool event Friday in celebration of National Public Works Week. The departments jointly hosted a four-hour open house at the Auburn Mall, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., where families were “encouraged to bring their children to explore dump trucks and bulldozers,” play […]