LEWISTON — Councilors began work on the 2016-17 budget Tuesday, taking their first look at the city’s project wish list. City Administrator Ed Barrett presented the latest draft of the city’s five-year capital project plan to a joint meeting of the City Council, Planning Board and Finance Committee. The draft Capital Improvement Plan calls for […]
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Beverly A. Koenig
1929 – 2016 FALMOUTH — Beverly Arline Rand Koenig of Durham passed away at the age of 86 on Wednesday, Jan. 6. She passed peacefully with family by her side. She was born in Lewiston at Keatings’ Maternity Home on Nov. 10, 1929, and was educated in schools in Bridgton and Fryeburg. She graduated from […]
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West Paris property ordered cleaned up
WEST PARIS — Town officials are demanding that Chandler Wright of Greenwood clean his Bethel Road property or face a potential violation as an unauthorized junkyard. Town Manager John White told selectmen Thursday that he sent Wright a letter recently, demanding that he clean up his property, which has several unregistered, unfit-for-the-road vehicles and a boat […]
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Lewiston School Committee approves 6-class modular at Farwell Elementary
LEWISTON — The Lewiston School Committee on Monday night unanimously approved a six-classroom modular at Farwell Elementary School for the fall of 2016. Martel Elementary School teacher Erin Breau said she had 29 students in her sixth-grade class last week. On Monday, one more came in. Lewiston’s student population — which seems to grow daily […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, executive session, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Buckfield: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center […]
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Lewiston-Auburn this week
MONDAY, Sept. 28 LEWISTON — Finance Committee meeting, 5:15 p.m. in the administrator’s conference room on the bottom floor of Lewiston City Hall. LEWISTON — Planning Board regular meeting, 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers on the bottom floor of Lewiston City Hall. Topics include a discussion about the property at 35 Ellis St. Rear […]
Posted inFranklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Livermore Falls building being dismantled
LIVERMORE FALLS — Livermore Falls officials agree that an abandoned building at 22 Gagnon St., now owned by the town, is a safety hazard. “There’s been a lot of traffic in and out of that building,” Town Manager Kristal Flagg said at Tuesday’s selectmen meeting. “It needs to go.” Acadia Contractors LLC of Turner estimated it would […]
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Dixfield Planning Board reviewing wind ordinance
DIXFIELD — The Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, to continue discussing possible amendments to the Wind Energy Facility Ordinance. Patriot Renewables LLC of Quincy, Mass., approached town officials five years ago about constructing wind turbines on Col. Holman Mountain ridge. The town’s original ordinance passed in November 2012 and a […]
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Dixfield Planning Board member defends against bias complaint
DIXFIELD — A Planning Board member defended himself against a resident’s complaint of bias at Monday evening’s selectmen meeting. Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Donald Lutick filed an official complaint against Lauren Hebert, alleging Hebert is biased against wind development in Dixfield and shouldn’t be editing the Wind Energy Facility Ordinance. The Planning Board is […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Norway board: Road dispute civil matter
NORWAY – Town Manager David Holt told two Hobbs Pond Lane property owners Thursday night that selectmen are concerned about the environmental health of Hobbs Pond, but will not get involved in a dispute between subdivision property owners. Hobbs Pond Lane resident Steve Siskowitz and fellow property owner Paul Eirman asked the town to take […]