by Mary Grow The ice cream social that preceded the May 6 China Select Board’s public hearing and meeting was enjoyed by board members and 10 people who attended the hearing. The hearing topic was the warrant for the June 11 annual town business meeting, which will be by written ballot in the former portable […]
Grange hall apartments conversion welcome by neighbors by Mary Grow The two projects on the China Planning Board’s May 14 agenda got praise as well as unanimous approval. Carrol White’s application to convert the former Silver Lake Grange Hall in China Village to four apartments was the subject of a short public hearing. Everyone who […]
by Mary Grow Recycling dominated discussion at the China Transfer Station Committee’s May 14 meeting, thanks mostly to committee member James Hsiang’s proposal for a contest to reward people who minimize their trash. Hsiang suggested the idea at the April 16 committee meeting (see the April 25 issue of The Town Line, p. 3). He […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro native Holman Francis Day (1865 – 1935) was a well-known and prolific Maine writer. Starting as a newspaperman, he went on to write poetry and novels in verse, novels in prose, a play, non-fiction pieces and movie scripts. According to Kristin Stred and Robert Bradley (writers of the Maine Historic Preservation […]
by Mary Grow At their May 7 meeting, Vassalboro Planning Board members approved a new business in North Vassalboro and reviewed preliminary expansion plans at Sidereal Brewery, at 771 Cross Hill Road. Sidereal owner James D’Angelo is likely to present a formal application at the board’s June 4 meeting. Ray Breton, owner of two small […]
by Mary Grow Four members of China’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Committee started on their planned revision of the town’s TIF document at a workshop session May 13. The group deliberately postponed any decisions, partly because some of the financial information they need is not yet firm, partly to give themselves time to consider the […]
by Mary Grow The May 2 Vassalboro select board meeting featured an hour-long discussion among board members, Town Manager Aaron Miller, Vassalboro Sanitary District trustees and Megan McDonough and other VSD customers, with frequent references to information supplied by or to be sought from attorneys. The goal is to find ways to manage VSD finances, […]
by Mary Grow From Rufus Matthew Jones, your writer goes backward and then forward in the Jones family. Rufus Jones was the nephew of Eli Jones and his wife Sybil (Jones) Jones, well-known Quaker missionaries. Rufus and Elizabeth (Cadbury) Jones’ daughter, Mary Hoxie Jones, born almost a century later than Eli Jones, was a historian […]
by Mary Grow Part of Rufus Matthew Jones’ story of his early life, in his 1921 book titled A Small-Town Boy, was summarized last week. This week’s article continues his story, starting with his primary schooling in one-room schoolhouses in South China and Weeks Mills. Jones wrote that he was “four years and six months […]
by Mary Grow China Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Committee members found only one of two applications submitted to their April 29 meeting met the requirements for TIF funding. Both requests, from the South China public library and The Town Line newspaper, were submitted under Project C.3 in China’s TIF plan, titled “Marketing the Town as […]