by Mary Grow China planning board members approved the only application on their July 11 agenda, allowing Denver Cullivan to move his metal fabricating business, DC Customz, to an existing commercial building at 70 Waterville Road. Board members decided no public hearing is needed, because the business will be in a building that has been […]
by Mary Grow China select board members had a short July 17 meeting, followed by a long signing session as they reappointed town officials and board and committee members for the fiscal year that began July 1. The list of appointees began with town manager Rebecca Hapgood and included other officers and members of a […]
by Mary Grow China concluded and Albion This article is the third of four that will talk about how central Kennebec Valley towns took care of their destitute residents, when welfare was a local responsibility. Last week’s piece summarized actions in China from the 1820s into the 1870s, when the poor farm on the east […]
by Mary Grow At a very short special meeting June 30, the last day of the 2022-23 fiscal year, China select board members paid about $78,000 in end-of-year bills and approved a PSAP (Public Service Answering Point) agreement with the City of Waterville. As planned, Waterville is picking up the job of answering emergency calls […]
by Mary Grow China transfer station committee members spent their July 11 meeting mostly on updates – the latest news locally and from the former trash-to-energy facility in Hampden to which China used to send waste and may again. The news from Hampden is that the Municipal Review Committee, which represents China and 114 other […]
by Mary Grow How towns cared for their poor This article will continue the theme started June 14, how central Kennebec Valley towns took care of their poor residents, jumping across the Kennebec River from Augusta and Sidney to Vassalboro, Windsor, Palermo and China. The focus will remain – mostly – on the 19th century. […]
by Mary Grow China planning board members began their June 27 meeting with sequential public hearings on two applications for self-storage facilities on Route 3, from Chris Harris and Lucas Adams (see the June 22 issue of The Town Line, p. 3). China codes officer Nicholas French had allowed half an hour per application. He […]
by Mary Grow Local historians make some references to Independence Day celebrations According to Wikipedia, celebrating Independence Day on July 4 each year is most likely an error. The writer of the on-line site’s article on this national holiday says that the Second Continental Congress, meeting in a closed session, approved Virginia representative Richard Henry […]
by Mary Grow China select board members again postponed a decision on whether some town officials should be elected from geographic districts, after a discussion with two planning board members who attended the June 20 select board meeting. The select board’s agenda included numerous other topics. Two were related to the transfer station: a suggested […]
by Mary Grow If I raise everyone’s property valuation by 20 percent, most Vassalboro taxpayers will see little if any tax increase, assessor Ellery Bane, of RJD Appraisal, told select board members and an interested audience at the June 22 select board meeting. If I do not raise everyone’s property valuation as planned, many, probably […]