by Mary Grow Major General Carleton Edward Fisher’s 1970 history of Clinton includes a chapter on settlers who moved into the territory that became the town before 1782. He identified 10 of the men he named as Revolutionary veterans: Ezekiel Brown, Jr.; Nathaniel Burrell; Ezekiel Chase, Sr., and three of his six sons, Roger, Ezekiel, […]
by Mary Grow The Vassalboro Board of Appeals is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, in the town office meeting room, to hear a request to change a road name. In August, Augusta attorney Jed Davis, representing Vassalboro resident Silas Cain, asked town officials to take back the name White Ridge Road, […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members held a short Sept. 23 meeting, during which they approved the only application on their agenda and changed their plans for recommending revisions to town ordinances. The application was from Maurice Haskell, represented at the meeting by his daughter, Heather Haskell, to convert the former M. A. Haskell […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Cemetery Committee members spent three-fourths of their hour-long Sept. 15 meeting discussing trees in cemeteries, again, with half a dozen interested residents (see the Aug. 28 issue of The Town Line, p. 2). Committee chairman Savannah Clark said after the Aug. 18 meeting, she asked Town Manager Aaron Miller to prepare […]
by Mary Grow (See part 1 of this series here.) This article will continue the story of Fairfield men who fought in the Revolutionary War, beginning – after a digression – with one important man mentioned last week, William Kendall. * * * * * * Photos of the memorial in Fairfield’s Emery Hill Cemetery that the Silence Howard […]
by Mary Grow China select board members worried aloud about the future of ambulance service in the town, and groused about the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), during their Sept. 22 meeting. The meeting was less than a week after the first of two explanatory meetings in China, and the evening before the second […]
by Mary Grow “No one has enough resources.” That was Delta Ambulance Executive Director Chris Mitchell’s summary toward the end of a Sept. 17 discussion with representatives of emergency services and local governments from towns Delta serves. The meeting was the first of two hosted by the Town of China; the second was Sept. 23. […]
by Mary Grow Unless more people immediately volunteer to serve as Vassalboro Sanitary District (VSD) trustees, bad things are likely to happen, select board members learned at their Sept. 18 meeting. When the meeting started, the number of trustees on the five-member board was zero. The district’s only office employee, treasurer Rebecca Goodrich, and Town […]
by Mary Grow Former state legislator, current Kennebec County Judge of Probate, and, she hopes, always community supporter Elizabeth “Libby” Mitchell was guest speaker at the Vassalboro Historical Society on Sept. 21. Her informal talk, blending biography, local history, serious lessons and humorous anecdotes, brought applause and laughter from audience members, most of them friends […]
by Mary Grow In the 1770s, the next town north of Winslow on the west bank of the Kennebec River was Fairfield, organized as a plantation in 1774; and on the east bank, the part of Clinton that later became Benton. This article introduces some Revolutionary veterans with Fairfield connections; next week’s article will offer […]