by Mary Grow At their Feb. 13 meeting, China planning board members heard preliminary plans for a community solar farm in a gravel pit off Windsor Road (Route 32 South) and, as expected, denied an application to convert a building on China Village’s Main Street to apartments. The solar development is proposed by Perennial Sand […]
by Mary Grow China transfer station committee members, including Palermo representative Robert Kurek, had an amicable discussion at their Feb. 13 meeting, even though one of the topics was whether Palermo residents will continue to have access to the China facility. As Kurek, China Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood and committee members summarized the situation, the […]
by Mary Grow A suggestion to readers: this story will be easier to follow if you have a map of Windsor, Maine. Do not believe everything you see, however; your writer noted discrepancies between on-line maps and official tax maps of Windsor and its neighboring towns. Two Kennebec County atlases, published in 1856 and 1879, […]
by Mary Grow China select board members spent much of their Feb. 12 meeting going over the draft 2024-25 municipal budget. They gave Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood questions and comments about proposed expenditures, but made no decisions. Before and after the budget review, board members considered other issues, voting on several. Board chairman Wayne Chadwick […]
by Mary Grow It’s official: Vassalboro’s new town park on Outlet Stream and Route 32, a bit north of East Vassalboro village, is named Eagle Park. Select board members made the decision unanimously at their Feb. 8 meeting, at the request of conservation commission chairman Holly Weidner. Weidner told them a Boy Scout intends to […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro planning board members discussed three very different issues at their Feb. 6 meeting, none needing a yes or no decision. — The consideration of a new state law might lead to recommended amendments to town ordinances, which would need voter approval. — An application for a commercial solar development is unlikely […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members began review of the draft 2024-25 town budget, prepared by Town Manager Aaron Miller, at a Feb. 6 meeting that lasted almost three hours. They continued discussion for an hour before their regular Feb. 8 meeting. Miller’s first draft totaled close to $3.9 million, and represented an increase […]
by Mary Grow A small pond shared between Albion and its southern neighbor, China, has been known as Dutton Pond for as long as your writer has lived in China. But the map of China in the 1856 and 1879 atlases of Kennebec County names it Pickerel Pond. Pickerel/Dutton Pond is on the north side […]
by Mary Grow China select board and budget committee members met together Feb. 5 to hear Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood’s presentation of the first draft of the 2024-25 municipal budget. By Hapgood’s figures, the fiscal year 2023-24 budget for municipal departments totaled a bit over $4.4 million. The preliminary request for FY 2024-25 comes to […]
by Mary Grow Five members of China’s Tax Increment Financing Committee reviewed nine requests for 2024-25 TIF funds at a Feb. 5 meeting. They unanimously recommended the select board approve all nine. The only long discussion was over requests from the Thurston Park Committee and the Four Seasons Club for money from the trails fund. […]