by Mary Grow China select board members, joined by some budget committee members and several town employees, held a long four-part meeting Monday evening, Feb. 24. They started at the public works garage on Alder Park Road, where Director of Public Works Shawn Reed introduced them to the large trucks, all wearing their plow gear […]
by Mary Grow A main business item on the Feb. 20 Vassalboro select board agenda, a discussion of planned enlargement of the fishway at the Webber Pond dam, turned into a discussion of movement for people, not fish. The 2009 fishway “has been so successful that it’s now undersized,” Maine Rivers Executive Director Landis Hudson […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members and leaders of town departments and groups discussed the proposed 2025-26 budget for more than 90 minutes Feb. 20 before moving on to the rest of the select board agenda. Town Manager Aaron Miller presented the third draft budget he prepared after a Feb. 12 workshop (see the […]
by Mary Grow As a break from trying to figure out which schoolhouse was in which end of town, your writer decided to profile some of the people mentioned in last week’s article about Palermo schools, starting with a sampling of the town’s first residents. The result is the following tantalizing tangle of contradictions and […]
by Mary Grow Shoes were a major topic at the China Transfer Station Committee’s Feb. 11 meeting. Committee member Rachel Anderson, one of the volunteers at the free for the taking building, explained that many people donate used shoes, and many of the shoes are wearable – if the right person with the right size […]
by Mary Grow At the China Planning Board’s Feb. 11 meeting, Codes Enforcement Officer Nicholas French issued a warning to residents planning to build this spring: get your building permit before April 7, unless you want to pay a few thousand dollars more for insulation. New state standards taking effect April 7 require more insulation […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro school board members began their Feb. 11 meeting with contrasting presentations on special programs offered for Vassalboro Community School (VCS) students. First, they watched a slide show with video about Whispering Woods Stables, on Ingraham Mountain Road, off Route 3, in Augusta. A small group of VCS special education students attended […]
by Mary Grow The three select board members were the only Vassalboro residents present as they went through the second draft of the proposed 2025-26 municipal budget at a Feb. 12 workshop meeting. Town Manager Aaron Miller said one resident had emailed him general comments on what the person thinks should – and should not […]
by Mary Grow Note: parts of this article were previously published in the Oct. 7, 2021, issue of The Town Line. The Town of Palermo’s first settlers arrived around 1776 or 1777. By 1778 the area was called Great Pond Settlement, because, Milton Dowe explained in his 1954 history, it was “near the Sheepscot Great […]
by Mary Grow At their Feb. 10 meeting, China select board members discouraged two residents recommending town expenditures. Director of Public Services Shawn Reed, who made a second pitch for a new town truck, was rejected, on a split vote. Board chairman Wayne Chadwick told Broadband Committee chairman Robert O’Connor and member Jamie Pitney he […]