by Mary Grow China transfer station staff and Palermo representatives on China’s Transfer Station Committee agree that the majority of residents of both towns are cooperative about paying $2 for their 2025 transfer station windshield stickers. As usual, some complain, they reported at the committee’s Jan 14 meeting. The point of requiring the stickers on […]
by Mary Grow The Town of China had five high schools at various times in the 19th century. The one in China Village lasted into the 20th century; Erskine Academy in South China (next week’s topic) was founded in 1883 and is thriving in 2025. Your writer summarized histories of these schools in a Sept. […]
by Mary Grow The Jan. 14 Vassalboro School Board workshop and meeting included more discussion of plans for major work on the Vassalboro Community School (VCS) building, a presentation on the Gifted and Talented Program and a discussion of board members’ stipends. The official meeting was preceded by a workshop presentation by engineer Erik Rodstrom, […]
by Mary Grow China’s Thurston Park Committee members spent part of their Jan. 16 meeting talking again about the possibility of opening a southern entrance to the 400-acre park in northeastern China. The unpaved Yorktown Road runs north from the Mann Road, in China, through the park and across the Albion town line. Town voters […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members approved both applications on their Jan. 14 agenda, the one from the town after an unusually complex discussion. The meeting began with a short public hearing on a proposed retail store at 363 Route 3. There were no comments from anyone present or on line, and codes officer […]
by Mary Grow As mentioned in previous articles about 19th-century Maine elementary schools, in 1894 the state legislature passed a law that began, “The school districts in all towns in this state are hereby abolished.” The law further directed towns to take over “all school-houses, lands, apparatus and other property owed and used by the […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Planning board members have approved a site review permit for R. L. Mercantile & Trading Post, with conditions. Brea Willette, speaking for the business at 134 Brann Road, described it as an expanded farm market, selling products from the family farm and other local farms. Retail sales contribute needed income to […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members disposed of three issues on their lengthy Jan. 9 meeting agenda. By unanimous votes, board members: — Agreed that the state-required wage deduction to support the new paid family medical leave program will be split 50:50 between employees and the town; and — Agreed to buy new propane […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Conservation Commission members re-discussed a main topic from their Dec. 18 meeting on Jan. 8, after they got a higher than expected cost estimate for their December plan. They agreed in December to improve buffering along the China Lake shoreline in East Vassalboro’s Monument Park, with the goals of increasing erosion […]
by Mary Grow China select board members have started preparing for the June 10 annual town business meeting, and it will not be a return to the pre-Covid open meeting that some residents would like to see. China’s official town meeting, by state definition, is in November, when voters elect town officers by written ballot. […]