by Peter Cates Roger Boyle For some years, I have found that the only criticism worth reading, whether books, music, etc., is that which has a passion for the subject, and a sense that the writing is a means of putting one’s thoughts in order while bringing the reader along in this journey. In his […]
by Mary Grow Temporarily distracted from the Kennebec Valley, your writer recently read Richard Beeman’s Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (2009). Beeman described the 1787 convention in Philadelphia at which men from 12 of the 13 original states (Rhode Island refused to play) wrote what became the Constitution of the United […]
by Roland D. Hallee All of a sudden, there they were. One was walking up the side of my computer monitor at work, the other, traversing across the top of my steering wheel on my home from work later that day. And finally, on the east side of my house, in the windows, the following […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members have made progress toward livestreaming and recording their meetings. The Jan. 11 meeting was at least partly covered. Michael Picher donated the camera. David Trask provided technical support. Brian Lajoie helped with installing television screens and running wire. The selectboard was responsible for the directive and helping in […]
by Mary Grow China planning board members returned to an old topic, the proposed town ordinance to govern commercial solar development, at their first 2024 meeting, held on Jan. 9. Chairman Toni Wall shared her revised draft of the ordinance. Board members made a few immediate comments and accepted Wall’s suggestion they discuss it again […]
by Mary Grow And Seven Mile Stream As promised last year, this article finishes the story of mills and dams in 19th-century Winslow, or as much of the story as your writer has found, before moving south to Vassalboro’s Seven Mile Stream. The previous account left off before describing the Pattee Pond outlet stream in […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro’s transfer station task force members had two projects on their Jan. 4 meeting agenda. The first is the beginning of a redesign of the transfer station facility on Lombard Dam Road, involving outside expertise. The second is an update of the town’s Transfer Station Ordinance, an in-house project. In the fall […]
by Mary Grow In October 2022, Timothy Beals, who was then head of Delta Ambulance, asked China select board members to ask voters to approve funding the service in 2023-24 at $15 per resident, or a little less than $66,000 for the fiscal year. At the time, he predicted the per-person charge would rise. He […]
by Mary Grow In addition to the historic mills on Outlet Stream and smaller flowages in Winslow, Kingsbury mentioned two larger mills on the east bank of the Kennebec in the 1890s. One he described as a new “large steam saw mill…on the historic grounds of Fort Point,” covering most of the “palisade enclosure of […]
by Mary Grow As expected, the Dec. 14 Vassalboro select board meeting attracted a large audience – 70 or more people filled the Vassalboro Community School cafeteria, 60 or so to listen to or join discussion of the Vassalboro Sanitary District’s sewer rates. The VSD serves about 200 customers in East and North Vassalboro. Its […]