by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members began their March 20 meeting with a short discussion of the town recreation program, since resident Michael Phelps had attended the meeting to hear about it. Now that Community Program Director Karen Stankis has resigned, town officials are pondering whether to continue the program they approved in 2022, […]
by Mary Grow At their March 20 meeting, Vassalboro transfer station task force members decided on new instructions for engineer Jeff Senders that they expect will give them a revised plan for a safer facility. The group, with select board members and transfer station staff, have talked for several years about redesigning the Lombard Dam […]
by Mary Grow When Henry Kingsbury started his detailed description of the Town of Vassalboro in his 1892 Kennebec County history, he named six “post hamlets” and five “prominent localities.” Each post village was also a “manufacturing and mercantile” center, he said. The first village he named was then called Vassalboro, or Vassalboro Corners, and […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Conservation Commission members continued discussion of plantings in Monument Park, in East Vassalboro, at their Feb. 12 meeting. As at previous meetings in December 2024 and January 2025, they came to no decision (see the Jan. 2 issue of The Town Line, p. 2, and the Jan. 16 issue, p. 3). […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members spent their March 13 meeting going over two familiar documents, the draft 2025-26 budget (now in version number five) and the personnel policy they have been discussing at intervals since the end of May 2024. They made progress on both. After more than an hour’s review, they decided […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro School Board members began their March 11 meeting by recognizing the Vassalboro Community School girls’ basketball team, who won the 2025 Sheepscot Valley Athletic Conference championship with a 12-0 record. (See the photo on p. 8 of the March 13 issue of The Town Line.) “From worst to first,” Coach David […]
by Mary Grow Five of China’s seven budget committee members met March 17 to make their recommendations on the select board’s draft 2025-26 budget. They recommended cuts affecting several accounts, and two increases. The major change budget committee members want is in town employees’ salaries. Select board members, at their March 10 meeting, accepted Town […]
by Mary Grow At the March 11 China Transfer Station Committee meeting, member Bob Kurek shared his calculation of the economic benefit of charging all users a per-bag fee to dispose of trash at the China facility. Palermo users currently buy colored bags for their trash. China residents do not, since their taxes support the […]
by Mary Grow Last week’s story covered primary schooling in the Town of Windsor, south of China and Vassalboro and east of Augusta in the Kennebec Valley. This week’s article will add a bit of information on Windsor high schools, plus a biographical sketch of an early area settler who was Windsor’s first primary-school teacher. […]
by Mary Grow At their March 10 meeting, China select board members put their draft 2025-26 municipal budget in near-enough final form to forward to the town budget committee. Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood hoped to be able to schedule a budget committee meeting the week of March 17. Voters will make final 2025-26 spending decisions […]