Majority does not support lowering taxes by Mary Grow At their April 19 meeting, Vassalboro Budget Committee were faced with a proposed 2022-23 budget, including municipal and school requests and an estimated Kennebec County tax, which (if approved by voters) would be expected to result in a slight decrease in the town tax rate. The […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Records tell of a Kennebec Valley slave-owner, Captain Abiel or Abial Lovejoy (Dec. 15, 1731 – July 4, 1811), who lived in Vassalboro from 1776 and in Sidney after the west side of the Kennebec River became a separate town in 1792 (see the Feb. 3 issue of The Town Line). […]
by Mary Grow The three China Select Board members present at the April 25 meeting unanimously approved new transfer station hours. Town Manager Rebecca Hapgood hopes to implement the change by the middle of May, when summer people begin arriving. The new hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and […]
by Mary Grow CHINA, ME — China Road Committee members met April 12 to discuss Road Foreman Shawn Reed’s proposed repaving schedule for 2022. They expressed no objections. Reed’s list totals just under six miles in the north end of town. It includes about 1.5 miles on Pleasant View Ridge Road, starting from Lakeview Drive […]
by Mary Grow Black Kennebec Valley residents The first two Black men recorded in Augusta, according to Anthony Douin, one of the contributors to H. H. Price and Gerald Talbot’s Maine’s Visible Black History, were “York Bunker and Cuff.” They were in the garrison at Fort Western, built in 1754, “listed as servants and paid […]
by Mary Grow CHINA, ME — Members of China’s Transfer Station Committee voted unanimously at their April 12 meeting to advise China select board members to buy a new loader as soon as possible, before prices rise any more. Road Foreman Shawn Reed told committee members the 25-year-old loader his public works department shares with […]
by Mary Grow CHINA, ME — The three members of the China Planning Board participating in the April 12 meeting unanimously approved a change of ownership for a South China business. Savage Nutrition is the new name of the former Backroad Nutrition at 341 Route 3. The business sells “Energizing Teas and Meal Replacement Shakes,” […]
by Mary Grow VASSALBORO, ME — Vassalboro School Board members got quite a lot of good news at their April 13 meeting. Assistant Principal Greg Hughes shared the first item, in his administrator’s report: extracurricular programs are being scheduled again, after two years of pandemic-induced hiatus. He said one field trip has already been held […]
by Mary Grow VASSALBORO, ME — Vassalboro select board members approved four of the varied items on their April 14 agenda, one formally; rejected one request; and postponed other decisions for more information. By a unanimous vote, they approved a trail agreement with the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IF&W) for maintenance of […]
by Mary Grow So far, people in this history series have been almost entirely the group that is still Maine’s majority population: white people descended mostly from inhabitants of the British Isles, plus representatives of other northern and western European countries. For example, Millard Howard wrote in his Palermo history that early settlers in that […]