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 […]
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SAD 58 board OKs new positions, sets budget
SALEM TOWNSHIP — RSU 58 directors Thursday approved hiring a dean of students who will also serve as athletic director for Mt. Abram High School. They also approved at $9.09 million budget for the coming fiscal year. Jeff Pillsbury served as assistant principal and athletic director for the high school two years ago. When he […]
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LePage has until midnight to veto $40 million revenue sharing bill
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has until midnight Tuesday to decide whether he will sign, veto or allow a bill that restores about $40 million in revenue sharing to Maine cities and towns to pass into law without his signature. The bill, which passed on veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate earlier in February, […]
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Maine House votes 114-21 in favor of revenue sharing bill
UPDATED 1:25 P.M.: LD 1762 advances in the Maine House after a 114-21 vote. AUGUSTA – A bill meant to restore $40 million in state revenue sharing for cities and towns will go before the Maine House of Representatives today. The bill, LD 1762, was approved by the Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee earlier this week on […]
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Pink paper glitch triggers accidental mailing of 1,000 bogus tax collection letters to Mainers
AUGUSTA — If you received a letter from Maine Revenue Services in the past week saying you owed back taxes or other money to the state, don’t panic. An error in the finance department’s central printing service resulted in 1,000 tax collection letters sent that were never meant to be delivered. Maine Revenue Services was […]
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Lawmaker offers bill to end Pirates, civic center dispute
PORTLAND (AP) — A legislative leader is offering a possible solution to a dispute between the American Hockey League’s Portland Pirates and the Cumberland County Civic Center. Senate President Justin Alfond has filed emergency legislation that would allow the team to share revenue from alcohol sales if it returns to the Portland arena. Alfond, a […]
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State has $58 million revenue surplus
AUGUSTA — State revenue for the fiscal year that ended June 30 exceeded projections, leaving Maine with a surplus of nearly $58 million. Nearly half of that unanticipated income — just less than $28 million — came from a one-time spike in individual income tax revenue, according to preliminary calculations included in a monthly report […]
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Auburn budgets, government topic of informational meeting
AUBURN — City Manager Clinton Deschene discussed the rationale behind the city’s budget and philosophies for managing municipal government at a public meeting Monday in Auburn Hall. “What Auburn really has to do is figure out what we want, commit to it and stick to it,” Deschene said at the first of two public meetings […]
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Taxes topic of special Lewiston meeting
LEWISTON — Councilors will crack open their budget books again at a specially scheduled workshop meeting Wednesday. “We hope to get a budget option finalized so we can come back on July 16 and do the actual budget amendment,” City Administrator Ed Barrett said. “We’ll also take a quick look at our capital budget to […]
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Maine fireworks revenues far exceed projections
PORTLAND (AP) — Sales at Maine’s fireworks stores have far surpassed initial projections when fireworks became legal last year for the first time in 63 years. When legislators debated a bill in 2011 seeking to legalize fireworks, the Maine Revenue Services estimated that fireworks stores would generate about $120,000 a year in sales taxes. In […]