Entries by Mary Grow

CHINA: Comprehensive planning committee hopes to have final draft by year’s end

by Mary Grow Three members of China’s Comprehensive Planning Committee, plus Kennebec Valley Council of Governments (KVCOG) representative Joel Greenwood and Planning Board Chairman Tom Miragliuolo, spent the last evening in July talking about the updated China Comprehensive Plan that Greenwood hopes to have drafted by the end of the year. As a basis, there […]

CHINA: Mills-Stevens to take over excavator negotiations from public works manager Reed

by Mary Grow The proposal to buy an excavator for China’s Public Works Department that has been on the selectmen’s agendas since June 10 is scheduled to appear again on August 19, under new management. At the selectmen’s Aug. 5 meeting, board member Donna Mills-Stevens volunteered to renegotiate the proposed purchase with Chadwick- BaRoss, believing […]

CHINA: Selectmen postpone excavator decision for fourth time

by Mary Grow “We’ll make a decision shortly, Shawn,” China Selectboard Chairman Robert MacFarland promised Public Works Manager Shawn Reed as selectmen for the fourth time postponed action on his recommendation that they buy an excavator for the town. Reed first made the suggestion at the June 10 selectmen’s meeting. There were follow-up discussions at […]

VASSALBORO: Money is topic at selectmen’s meeting

by Mary Grow At their July 18 meeting, Vassalboro selectmen talked about money (funding for the Vassalboro Sanitary District [VSD] expansion and buying a police car) and people (creating a new town solar committee and appointing its members, a change in codes officers and a neighborhood dispute). Richard Green of Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, engineers […]

China CEO Mitnik moves on with regret and pleasure

by Mary Grow “I’m saying goodbye to China,” Paul Mitnik said toward the end of our June 25 conversation in his office in the town office. After four years as codes enforcement officer, licensed plumbing inspector and building inspector, Mitnik is moving on, sooner than he intended, with a mixture of regret and pleasure. Regret […]

Vassalboro board puzzles over lunch program finances

by Mary Grow Vassalboro School Board members puzzled over lunch program finances at their June 18 meeting, after Superintendent Alan Pfeiffer recommended they reallocate $30,000 to start covering the program’s debt even though it doesn’t owe any money to anybody. Pfeiffer explained that the “debt,” about $130,000, is on the books because the program spends […]