by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members spent more than an hour of their May 24 meeting reviewing a revised draft of the town’s personnel policy, with comments from an interested audience of town employees. The most discussed section deals with how time off – vacation time, sick leave, personal days, for example – is […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro’s annual town meeting will be, as usual in recent years, in two sections. Voters will assemble at 6:30 p.m., Monday, June 3, in the Vassalboro Community School gymnasium to vote on the first 41 articles of the 45-article town meeting warrant. The meeting will then recess until 8 a.m., Tuesday, June […]
by Mary Grow This series has been geographically grounded, mostly, in specific places: 12 municipalities in the central Kennebec Valley. Your writer’s next topic is how each of these got its name. As usual, there will be preliminaries, the first of which have taken up this entire introductory essay. They are a short detour along […]
by Mary Grow China select board members began their May 20 meeting with their second ice cream social in two weeks, as an introduction to the presentation of 2024 Spirit of America awards. The dozen residents recognized for their volunteerism this year are: — Carol Boynton and Thomas Bilodeau, for service to the Project Linus […]
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 […]