by Mary Grow Before proceeding to the history of the Augusta jail, your writer wants to clarify a sentence from last week’s article. It referenced Wikipedia’s statement that after Augusta became a city (instead of a town) in 1849, “Its early city offices were in the Opera House, and meetings took place in Winthrop Hall.” […]
by Mary Grow China’s annual town business meeting will be held by written ballot on Tuesday, June 10. Polls in the portable building in the town office complex will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Absentee ballots are available at the town office until 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5, for voters unable to […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members approved the only application on their May 27 agenda and postponed everything else. Natasha Littlefield, owner/operator of Littlefield’s Gym, in the former Farrington building, at 9 Legion Memorial Drive, in South China, applied to use office space in the building for her accounting business. She’s run the business […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members were confronted by three angry budget committee members at their May 29 meeting. (See the May 22 issue of The Town Line, p. 2, for related information.) Committee chairman Peggy Schaffer, supported by members Douglas Phillips and Frank Richards, told select board members they failed to provide timely […]
by Mary Grow Enough, for now, of genealogies (although two boxes about people accompany this article). This week, your writer provides summary histories of more of Augusta’s 18th and 19th century public buildings. Settled in the 1760s as part of Hallowell, Augusta became a separate town in 1797; became the shire town of Kennebec County […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Cemetery Committee members are satisfied with their plans for summer maintenance work. Four members who met May 19 expect the annual professional help from Grave Stone Matters, in Hoosick Falls, New York, from July 10 to 14. Joseph Ferrannini is scheduled to repair stones in the large North Vassalboro Village cemetery, […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro’s annual town meeting for 2025 will be in two sessions, eight days apart and in two different locations. On Monday, June 2, voters will assemble in the Vassalboro Community School gymnasium, at 6:30 p.m., to talk about and vote on articles number one through 41. On Tuesday, June 10, polls will […]
by Mary Grow First, here is an update on last week’s article about lawyer Sanford A. Kingsbury, who supposedly practiced in China. Readers may remember that in 1835, he was opening mills on Kingsbury Pond, in the plantation named after him, some 50 miles from Waterville (and another five miles or so from China). Apparently […]
by Mary Grow At their May 19 meeting, China select board members were presented with a proposal to have Hometown Heroes banners in town. Resident Jacinth Allard, who was unable to attend the meeting, had proposed to Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood that China join other area towns – Clinton and Benton were mentioned – with […]
by Mary Grow With their 2025-26 budget recommendations in final form and forwarded to the town office, Vassalboro School Board members had time to catch up on other business at their May 13 meeting. A main item was updating the Vassalboro Consolidated School building, opened in 1992. Tom Seekins, from Portland-based Energy Management Consultants, was […]