SABATTUS — There will be a special town meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, at the town office regarding the proposed shoreland zoning map change.
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Spirit of America award winners honored
AUGUSTA — Recipients of the 2011 Spirit of America Foundation Award for outstanding community service throughout Maine were recognized during an April 6 ceremony at the Statehouse. Auburn Volunteers in Police Service have helped the Auburn Police Dept. in a variety of ways. Bowdoin FHC, Inc. runs several community projects, including fundraisers for the fire […]
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R. Lacombe: Suffering through another four years
If President Barack Obama is re-elected for another four years, Americans will need to stockpile dried and non-perishable food to feed families. It will be important to grow and harvest as much as possible to prepare for the inevitable increase in the cost of living. Gasoline and heating oil prices will escalate again after the […]
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Proposed RSU 4 budget passes one vote; second community vote Tuesday
WALES — RSU 4 voters will go to the polls Tuesday for a referendum on a school budget with a 2.16 percent increase and no privatized busing next year. About 80 people gathered Wednesday night at Oak Hill High School to walk through the budget details and to vote department by department before sending it […]
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Oak Hill graduates 89
WALES — Inspired by a school motto, “Failure is not an option,” Sarah Desjardins told graduating classmates that, really, failure is inevitable, but it’s the aftermath that counts. “We need to take our failures and learn from them and grow from them and become better people,” she said Friday, recounting her valedictorian address. Desjardins spoke […]
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Section of Route 126 temporarily closed due to high water
SABATTUS — A section of Route 126 in Sabattus was closed Tuesday afternoon by the Maine Department of Transportation due to the high water level under the bridge near Steven’s Hardware, according to Town Manager Andrew Gilmore. Travelers should look for a detour route through High Street and Maine streets. The detour will re-direct traffic […]
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Sabattus town meeting draws crowd
SABATTUS — They needed at least 25 residents to come out on an overcast, rainy Saturday morning in order to have enough for a quorum. Instead, town officials were met with 80 people ready to talk about jobs, roads, emergency medical services and everything else related to the town’s 2012-13 budget at what might be […]
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Cheryl Breton Pelletier
AUBURN — Cheryl Breton Pelletier, 63, of Sabattus passed away Tuesday, May 29, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice . She was born in Lewiston on Dec. 11, 1948, the daughter of the late Leon Alfred Breton and Shirley Moores Breton. She was educated in Auburn schools graduating from Edward Little […]
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Post to note original Memorial Day LEWISTON — The George Armstrong Custer Post 7, Grand Army of the Republic Association, will celebrate the original Memorial Day, as set after the Civil War, at noon Wednesday, May 30, at the grave of Stephen Marriner, Riverside Cemetery, Main Street. Marriner died in 1864 in a Confederate Prison […]
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Informational meetings called on repairs, future of Sabattus, Litchfield, Wales schools
WALES — After years of spending little on capital improvements, RSU 4 faces a choice, Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said. Borrow $1.8 million to make building repairs or go for a larger bond, close the two oldest elementary schools and build an addition for those students elsewhere. But where? The district has called two informational meetings […]