by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members held an hour-long special meeting April 24 to review the draft warrant for the June 2 and 10 annual town meeting. The warrant was still in draft primarily because the school budget was not final. Superintendent Alan Pfeiffer said school board members held a brief special meeting April […]
by Mary Grow China select board members spent more than half an hour of their two-hour April 22 meeting discussing alternatives for updating the town office heating (and cooling) system. Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood said the original brick section of the building still has its 1998 furnaces and ductwork. Later piecemeal additions first extended the […]
Part 1 by Mary Grow Why, several people have asked recently, does Vassalboro Community School (VCS) have not one, but two, school counselors? The answer offered by counselors Jamie Routhier and Gina Davis is that there is more than enough work for both of them. VCS has about 420 students – the number varies slightly […]
by Mary Grow While looking for information for the previous articles on Maine’s legal and court systems and people who made them work, your writer came across related information that falls under two headings, people and buildings. The limited research this series rests on found bits and pieces of information about some items. Others remain […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro select board members have not been asked to sell the town transfer station, merely to consider sharing a small part of it. The suggestion from the board’s April 3 meeting that Municipal Wastehub might want to buy or lease the transfer station was changed at the April 17 meeting, when Mike […]
by Mary Grow At their April 9 meeting, Vassalboro Conservation Commission members continued planning work at two town parks; talked about the pending three-lake watershed survey; and rediscussed the contentious subject of cemetery trees. Chairman Holly Weidner added information on a record tree in town, a slippery elm measured in 2014 and listed as the […]
by Mary Grow China’s Transfer Station Committee members put revisions to the 2021 vision statement for the facility in near-final form at their April 8 meeting. The single-page document is a list of goals. Much of the discussion was about how to help China residents, and those in Palermo who use China’s facility, realize how […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members devoted their April 8 meeting to review of town ordinances, with references to the town comprehensive plan. They decided a joint meeting with China’s comprehensive plan implementation committee would be a useful next step; chairman Toni Wall will invite that committee’s members to the May 13 planning board […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Planning Board members approved Novel Energy’s planned community solar farm, at 2235 Riverside Drive, at their April 7 special meeting, despite last-minute surprises from neighbors (see the April 10 issue of The Town Line, p. 9). Novel representative Ralph Addonizio brought the additional information board members requested at their April 1 […]
by Mary Grow Before they began discussing the proposed 2025-26 school budget at their April 8 meeting, Vassalboro School Board members dealt with monthly business items. Major topics were how to prepare in case November voting is at Vassalboro Community School, and how to provide financial aid to families of students attending the Maine School […]