DIXFIELD — The Planning Board held a special workshop Thursday evening with Patriot Renewables project coordinator Tom Carroll to discuss the sound-level limits for the town’s wind energy facility ordinance. Patriot Renewables LLC of Quincy, Mass., approached Dixfield officials five years ago about constructing wind turbines on Col. Holman Mountain ridge. The town’s original ordinance passed […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Community Day Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Ordinance Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Jay: Special selectmen meeting, 3:30 p.m., Town Office Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Lynchtown Township: Oxford County Commission, 10 a.m., Bosebuck Mountain Camps, 2013 Parmachenee Road Newry: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office […]
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Dixfield board reviewing wind ordinance
DIXFIELD — The Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Ludden Memorial Library for a special workshop to review the Wind Energy Facility Ordinance that voters rejected in June. Patriot Renewables LLC of Quincy, Mass., approached Dixfield officials five years ago about constructing wind turbines on the Colonel Holman Mountain […]
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Cutting crime with curfews: Police say method makes a difference
MEXICO — Cars were being broken into late at night. Garages and their contents vandalized. Property was being damaged and destroyed. Constant vandalism went on late at night. Officials in the small Western Maine town could not stop crime from going on after hours. Then came the tipping point. In August 2014, a popular Thai […]
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Wind moratorium extension on agenda for Dixfield selectmen at Aug. 10 meeting
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing on whether to extend the town’s moratorium on wind development for another 180 days prior to its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Aug. 10. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the basement of the Ludden Memorial Library. The moratorium is due to […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Oxford Hills Hartford: Food Bank, 4 p.m., Town Hall Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall Newry: Fire Department, 3 p.m., Sunday River Station Newry: Cemetery Committee, 5 p.m., Town Office River Valley Peru: Planning Board, 4 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: […]
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Scarborough climbing gym opens on Haigis Parkway
SCARBOROUGH — The town’s first climbing gym, Salt Pump Climbing Co., is open for business. The 10,000-square-foot indoor climbing center at 36 Haigis Parkway offers rope-climbing and bouldering, rock walls nearly 50 feet tall, general gym fitness equipment and a yoga studio. Plans for the climbing gym were first presented to the town in October […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Otisfield: Comprehensive Plan Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Finance Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Building Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Woodstock: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Thursday Mexico: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Mexico: […]
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Wessels appointed chair, Risica vice chair, of Paris board
PARIS — The Board of Selectmen chose its chairman and vice chairman Monday evening. Barring their own abstentions, selectmen unanimously voted to name Robert Wessels Chairman and Michael Risica Vice Chairman. Wessels was first elected in 2012 for a one-year term and re-elected in 2013. Michael Risica, a longtime member of the Planning Board, was elected to […]
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Dixfield selectmen schedule public hearing to extend moratorium another 180 days
DIXFIELD — Town Manager Carlo Puiia said that the Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 Monday evening to extend the wind energy facility moratorium for another 180 days to give them more time to amend the latest draft of the ordinance. Puiia said that Selectmen Mac Gill and Eugene Skibitsky voted against extending the moratorium. “They […]