by Mary Grow Vassalboro’s Leach, or Leach-Overlock, House is on Maine Preservation’s 2025 list of most endangered historic properties. The house is on Bog Road, the next building west of the Vassalboro Public Library. It was built around 1805, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since Oct. 20, 1983, and was owned […]
by Mary Grow As promised, this article will start with information on Samuel Varnum and Solomon Whidden (or Whitten), Revolutionary War veterans named in Major General Carleton Edward Fisher’s 1970 history of Clinton, Maine. Their (incomplete, as usual) stories will be followed by information on three more veterans, Elnathan Sherwin, Isaiah Brown and Benoni Burrill. […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members now have four hearings on their Oct. 16 agenda. Board members had already planned and advertised three informational hearings on Nov. 4 local warrant articles. Voters are invited to learn about ballot questions asking them to approve or disapprove: — Proposed revisions to the town’s TIF (Tax Increment […]
by Mary Grow Four members of the China Board of Appeals met Oct. 2 and postponed a decision on Timothy Theriault’s request for a variance to allow a re-division of his two lots on Lakeview Drive. Theriault wants to sell the two adjoining lots, one at 1210 Lakeview Drive and one on China Lake, separately, […]
by Mary Grow China select board members spent a whopping amount of taxpayers’ money at their Oct. 6 meeting. Most of the spending was near the beginning of the meeting, when they unanimously approved a warrant for miscellaneous goods and services (the “payables warrant” that’s on each biweekly agenda) in the amount of $1,419,494.85. The […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members and heads of town emergency services spent most of the Oct. 2 select board meeting in a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) review of the town’s emergency readiness. Before welcoming the local speakers, board members took one important action: they appointed Jenna Davies, from East Vassalboro, and […]
by Mary Grow Major General Carleton Edward Fisher’s 1970 history of Clinton includes a chapter on settlers who moved into the territory that became the town before 1782. He identified 10 of the men he named as Revolutionary veterans: Ezekiel Brown, Jr.; Nathaniel Burrell; Ezekiel Chase, Sr., and three of his six sons, Roger, Ezekiel, […]
by Mary Grow The Vassalboro Board of Appeals is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, in the town office meeting room, to hear a request to change a road name. In August, Augusta attorney Jed Davis, representing Vassalboro resident Silas Cain, asked town officials to take back the name White Ridge Road, […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members held a short Sept. 23 meeting, during which they approved the only application on their agenda and changed their plans for recommending revisions to town ordinances. The application was from Maurice Haskell, represented at the meeting by his daughter, Heather Haskell, to convert the former M. A. Haskell […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Cemetery Committee members spent three-fourths of their hour-long Sept. 15 meeting discussing trees in cemeteries, again, with half a dozen interested residents (see the Aug. 28 issue of The Town Line, p. 2). Committee chairman Savannah Clark said after the Aug. 18 meeting, she asked Town Manager Aaron Miller to prepare […]