WOODSTOCK — Temporarily fixing the bone-jarring ride on Route 232 between Woodstock and Rumford is up to the Legislature. But the Maine Department of Transportation won’t put the project out to bid until next year should legislators OK the department’s 2012 Work Plan, Mark Hume, MDOT regional engineer in Dixfield, said Tuesday in Fairfield. However, […]
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Voters to consider near $3.4 million proposed budget
RANGELEY — Regional School Unit 78, which serves the Rangeley Lakes area, will hold a districtwide budget meeting and vote Tuesday on a proposed $3.35 million budget for 2011-12, Superintendent Brian Foster said Monday. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. May 24 in gymnasium at Rangeley Lakes Regional School. Warrant articles are written […]
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Tri-county road, bridge projects total more than $28.35 million
DIXFIELD — Road and bridge projects totaling more than $28.35 million in Oxford, Franklin and Androscoggin counties are now under way. Several more projects are still awaiting bid process completion or will be advertised later this year. “We have got some good work going on around here and we’re doing pretty good,” Norm Haggan, Maine […]
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Town workers, firefighters squelch fire in trash compactor
RANGELEY — Town workers and firefighters put out a fire Thursday morning in a trash compactor at the transfer station before damage was done, fire Chief Rudy Davis said. Transfer station attendant Richard Brown spotted flames coming from the compactor and grabbed a fire extinguisher to try to put it out, Davis said. A couple […]
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Ski resorts say goodbye to season: Heavier than usual snows blanket two Maine areas this season
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Western Maine’s three large ski resorts recorded whopping amounts of natural snow from a long, cold season that ended Monday for Sugarloaf when it closed. Additionally, spokespeople for two resorts raved about this season being one of the better ones on record. But it was Saddleback in Rangeley that recorded what they […]
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Trespass charges dismissed, men donate to charitable foundation
FARMINGTON — State prosecutors have dismissed criminal trespass charges against a Rhode Island prison official and a Massachusetts man who went into a condominium to get wine glasses when it was rented to other people. The charges were dropped in exchange for each man agreeing to donate $1,000 to The Travis Roy Foundation, an organization […]
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Rangeley’s radio station eclectic, evolving
RANGELEY — Listen up, Rangeley. It’s time to tune in to 90.5 FM. WRGY, the town’s community radio station, is off and running. Still in its infancy, the station is evolving. It may be very different a year from now than it is today, said Dr. Dave McMillan, a local dentist and entrepreneur, who has […]
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Two candidates to get second interview
RANGELEY — Selectmen will interview two candidates for town manager a second time Wednesday, April 13, board Chairman Donald Nuttall said Thursday. The board interviewed five of 14 applicants Monday. Town Clerk Karen Olivieri has been working as interim town manager since January when former Town Manager Perry Ellsworth left to manage South Berwick. It […]