JAY — There will be no pickup of trash or recyclables on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. People need to either hold on to their trash and recyclables for the next week’s pickup or take them to the town’s transfer station, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said.
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R. Desrochers: Help improve recycling
I am very disappointed and embarrassed to find that Auburn’s recycling is now 8.5 percent, when it used to be 20 percent (Sun Journal, July 27). What happened? Because recycling went to twice a month? That’s a lame excuse. People should mark their calendars. Then, when there are items to discard, they are either going […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Auburn’s irregular pickup means fewer are recycling
AUBURN — Before Auburn residents put out their recyclables, many check the calendar to see if it’s the right week. After discovering it’s not, some haul their bottles, cardboard, plastics and paper back inside. Others skip recycling and throw it all out. The irregular recycling pickup is attributed as one reason why Auburn’s recycling rate […]
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Turner selectmen hear rescue proposals
TURNER — Representatives from two towns presented proposals to the Board of Selectmen Monday night. Buckfield Rescue Chief Lisa Bennett presented a proposal for paramedic and EMT-Intermediate coverage seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. There would be an EMT-Intermediate or a paramedic on-call between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Oxford County Regional Recycling to implement single-stream recycling program
NORWAY — Oxford County Regional Recycling is gearing up for a single-stream recycling program at the beginning of the new year — and if the effort works, Norway and Paris residents may follow suit sometime early next year. Vern Maxfield, chairman of this year’s budget committee in Norway, said he expects the change will come, […]
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Auburn budget vote Monday night
AUBURN — Councilors are close to finishing work on next year’s budget, according to City Manager Clinton Deschene. Councilors are slated to meet Monday for a first vote on the proposed budget. A final vote would be scheduled in the next few weeks. “If councilors don’t have a finished budget by Monday night, I think […]
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Board approves warrant for Wilton town meeting
WILTON — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday unanimously approved the warrant, including budget recommendations, for the June 16 town meeting. The warrant includes additional articles seeking residents’ input on waste disposal. With a total of $260,520 recommended by the board and Finance Committee for operation of the transfer station and recycling, the board decided […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Norway invited to go to single-sort recycling
NORWAY – Selectmen are expected to decide soon whether they want to continue the current system of sorting recyclable waste or go to no-sort recycling, which is being considered by the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. Selectmen recently received a letter informing them that the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. board voted April 9 to […]
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Assessment of Norway to be ‘lower than anticipated’; recycling could go ‘single-stream’
NORWAY — Town Manager David Holt announced that this year’s tax assessment on the town will be “lower than anticipated’. For Norway, about half of the cost of education is raised through property tax. “When revenues that support education are cut back … that definitely had an impact on us,” said Holt. Holt attended the […]