by Mary Grow At the polls on Nov. 8, Vassalboro voters will make decisions on local ballot questions and state elections. The questions are presented on two sheets of paper, a two-sided local ballot and a two-sided state ballot. One local question is election of a Kennebec Water District trustee, for a three-year term. Incumbent […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Planning Board members spent the first hour of their two-and-a-half hour Oct. 4 meeting on a revised commercial solar farm plan, and the rest of the time on preliminary discussion of town solar regulations. The solar project at 2579 Riverside Drive was approved in September 2020. Since then, it has acquired […]
by Mary Grow Subpart one – biographies one – Dunns, Milliken This article is planned as the first of a three-part subseries in which your writer introduces readers to some of the businessmen (and other people) mentioned in the previous weeks’ descriptions of Waterville’s Main Street Historic District, and sometimes to members of their families. The […]
by Mary Grow A bare quorum of the China Planning Board took no action at the Sept. 27 meeting. There was one application on the agenda, from Bryan Mason, to change the use of a shipping container at his 1144 Route 3 property. Mason wrote that he intended to use it as a “solventless Hashlab.” […]
by Mary Grow The China Emergency Preparedness Committee is scheduled to meet at 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, in the portable building behind the town office. Committee members will continue review of the town’s emergency preparedness plan, recommending changes and updates they think are needed.
by Mary Grow The Vassalboro select board’s Sept. 29 public hearing on the solar moratorium question that’s on the Nov. 8 local ballot drew more than two dozen residents and lasted almost an hour. Most of the discussion was on a different topic. The moratorium ordinance, if voters approve it, would stop all town action […]
by Mary Grow Final two Main Street Historic District buildings Old Post Office & Seton Hospital Returning to the 2016 enlargement of Waterville’s Main Street Historic District, the final two buildings included are the four-story Cyr Building/Professional Building, on the northeast corner of Main and Appleton streets at 177-179 Main Street (see its photo in […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro school board members got positive reports on the opening of school and the financial situation at their Sept. 20 meeting. Principal Ira Michaud reported that staff members and students are starting the fall semester cheerfully. Eliminating masking and distancing requirements helped, he wrote: “For the first time in over two years […]
by Mary Grow At their Sept. 26 meeting, China select board members unanimously adopted a temporary amnesty program for residents, permanent and seasonal, who made changes on their property without getting a required permit. China’s land use ordinances list numerous actions for which a permit is required, from the codes officer, the planning board or […]
by Debbie Walker This move into the camper has held a few surprises for me. Recently, I was going through some boxes I must have packed a couple years ago and forgot. In going through this one box I found some of dad’s things. I found a piece that someone must have shared with dad […]