by Mary Grow As promised, the next articles in this series will introduce some of the important surveyors in the central Kennebec Valley as Massachusetts proprietors sold lots – mostly pieces of land they had never seen – to settlers, and other people began lumbering, trapping and farming without the formality of buying a lot. […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Planning Board members approved one application on their July 1 agenda and decided the second one needed no action. They unanimously approved the planned replacement fishway at the Webber Pond dam, which has been discussed repeatedly at Vassalboro select board meetings. Matt Streeter, of Maine Rivers, presented a detailed application, with […]
by Mary Grow At their June 30 meeting, China select board members got information on the China Food Pantry, the Golden Agers and the China Village volunteer fire department. They appointed municipal officials and board and committee members for the fiscal year that began July 1. The only contentious issue was a proposed no-parking ordinance […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members agreed at their June 26 meeting to propose, and seek residents’ opinions on, three changes to town government. Board member Chris French recommends Vassalboro’s annual town meeting format be changed from the traditional open meeting (like the one held June 2, 2025) to a referendum vote. All questions […]
by Mary Grow At their June 24 meeting, China Planning Board members unanimously accepted the first draft of a proposed new ordinance titled “High Impact Electric Transmission Lines and Corridor Ordinance.” Board Chairman Toni Wall will forward the document to Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood. Wall expects the next steps will be review by the town’s […]
by Mary Grow Last academic year, a Vassalboro Community School graduate named Judson Smith was a freshman at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone. Smith is glad he was able to attend the specialized residential high school (see the Jan. 9, 2025, issue of The Town Line, p. 2, for an interview […]
by Mary Grow The lawyers discussed in this series earlier this spring were undoubtedly important in the lives of European settlers in the central Kennebec Valley. Before the lawyers, and equally if not more important, were another group of professional men: the surveyors. Several surveyors’ names appear in 18th-century records, usually because the men were […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Conservation Commission members spent most of their June 11 meeting discussing the two parks they supervise, Monument Park, in East Vassalboro at the China Lake outlet, and Eagle Park, on Route 32, north of East Vassalboro. For Monument Park, they agreed on committee member Steve Jones’ earlier suggestion of adding a […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Cemetery Committee members have another item on their maintenance list, after their June 16 meeting. They were already planning the summer’s work, to include stonework by Joseph Ferrannini from July 10 through July 13 in the North Vassalboro cemetery and tree removal in the Nelson Road and Farwell-Brown cemeteries. Select board […]
by Mary Grow This article will return to the history of a series of buildings, more cheerful than the Augusta jail(s) described in the June 5 story: Waterville’s town hall that became a city hall that was – and still is – combined with a large gathering space called an opera house. As with the […]