by Mary Grow [There has been an update to this story: CHINA: Follow-up on land sale story from last week] Lindsey Harwath, President of the The People’s Park group hoping to create a public park off Lakeview Drive on land that town officials just sold, has reported a major disappointment. At the Aug. 30 selectmen’s […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members have scheduled a Sept. 28 public hearing on Miguel Rivera’s application to convert the Knowles Mechanical Building at 1097 Route 3 to a medical marijuana business. The building is a short distance east of Dirigo Corner, where Dirigo and Alder Park roads intersect Route 3 (also called Belfast […]
by Mary Grow At their Sept. 16 meeting, China Broadband Committee (CBC) members continued planning publicity for the bond issue they are sponsoring on China’s Nov. 2 local ballot. They focused on drafting printed materials, and briefly discussed the next scheduled public presentation. That presentation will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 26, at the […]
by Mary Grow In preceding articles, readers have learned a bit about three private high schools, Cony Female Academy, Coburn Classical Institute and Oak Grove Seminary (see the issues of The Town Line for Sept. 2, July 29 and July 22, respectively) and about some of the public high schools in Augusta and Waterville (in […]
by Mary Grow With the deadline for returning nomination papers passed, China Town Clerk Angela Nelson reported only one contest on the Nov. 2 election ballot, four candidates for two seats on the Board of Selectmen. There are four town positions for which no name will appear on the ballot. Candidates for selectman are incumbent […]
by Mary Grow Members of the China Transfer Station Visioning Subcommittee agreed on a draft mission statement at their Sept. 10 meeting and discussed possible items to include in a vision statement. The mission statement is intended simply to state the purpose of the transfer station. The draft wording – subject to change – says […]
by Mary Grow China Broadband Committee members spent their Sept. 9 meeting discussing plans to publicize and explain the Nov. 2 ballot question asking voters to authorize borrowing to support expanded and improved internet service. The question is long and complicated (see The Town Line, Sept. 9, p. 3). Committee members hope for lopsided approval […]
by Mary Grow At their Sept. 13 meeting, China selectmen unanimously approved the Recreation Committee’s plan to spend about $5,000 from the recreation reserve account for an ice rink this winter, and commended Chairman Martha Wentworth and the rest of the committee for their activity. Wentworth explained plans and answered numerous questions from board members. […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro Planning Board members unanimously approved all three applications on their Sept. 7 agenda, including what board Chairman Virginia Brackett said was the fourth application presented for a solar array in town. The board previously approved a solar farm on Route 32 between North and East Vassalboro, which has been built. An […]
by Mary Grow According to Millard Howard’s history of Palermo, an 1817 Massachusetts law that apparently carried over into Maine in 1820 required each town with 50 families to provide a primary school and each town with 200 families to have a grammar school whose teacher was able to teach Latin and Greek. Alice Hammond’s […]