by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members spent the first 90 minutes of their Oct. 16 meeting hearing an appeal from codes officer Eric Currie’s denials of two marijuana – now called cannabis – business license renewals. They upheld the appellants on one and postponed a decision on the other. The properties involved are two […]
by Mary Grow Other towns included in this series that are in the Kennebec Valley, but lack direct access to the Kennebec River, are Albion, China, Palermo and Windsor. These towns’ earliest known settlers came later than the first settlers along the Kennebec. As a result, few if any men already living in these towns […]
by Mary Grow China Board of Appeals members, for the second week in a row, postponed a decision on Timothy Theriault’s request for a variance from lot size requirements. At their Oct. 2 meeting, board members found they needed more information on Theriault’s two lots on Lakeview Drive and the east shore of China Lake, […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Board of Appeals members, meeting Oct. 9, postponed action on an appeal of a road name until they have time to publicize the required public hearing. They scheduled the hearing for 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23, in the town office meeting room. Last spring, town codes officer Eric Currie approved the […]
by Mary Grow Monica Stanton, operator of the Rage Room, in North Vassalboro, got instructions on filing a complete application for her business at the Oct. 7 Vassalboro Planning Board meeting. Stanton has been running the Rage Room, where people come to express anger destructively but without harming others, since summer, without a town permit. […]
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 […]