Provide reliable, high-speed broadband service to all China residents by Mary Grow China Broadband Committee (CBC) members spent most of a two-hour April 22 meeting wordsmithing the document they plan to share with selectmen on April 29, with assistance from consultants James Dougherty and Mark Van Loan, from Mission Broadband, and Selectboard Chairman Ronald Breton. […]
by Mary Grow The Vassalboro Planning Board has a medical marijuana application and a solar power application on its May 4 agenda. Mathew Williams and Renee Zohar Fischman have applied to re-open a former marijuana growing facility at 1776 North Belfast Avenue (Route 3). The previous business had a planning board permit, which cannot be […]
by Mary Grow Palermo & Sidney Palermo had two Granges for which multiple records exist, and Milton Dowe found an earlier third one in his research for his 1954 History Town of Palermo. Dowe gives one paragraph to “Recreation Grange” – the quotation marks are his, and he did not add a number – in […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members held a short virtual meeting April 13, at which they expressed their frustration with virtual meetings and, they hope, resolved one of the annoying issues. The agenda called for continued discussion of the two draft ordinances board members are working on, a shoreland stabilization ordinance and a solar […]
by Mary Grow China Broadband Committee members continued discussion of their proposal to continue working with Machias-based Axiom Technologies to provide a town-owned network that would extend improved internet service throughout the town. Before the April 15 committee meeting, Chairman Robert O’Connor had received more information from Spectrum Community Solutions, the company that provides internet […]
by Mary Grow China Transfer Station Committee members are considering advocating for a regional trash collection system based in China, if the new owners of what was the Fiberight facility in Hampden don’t get their act together soon. The plant, owned by Coastal Resources, closed in May 2020. On Jan. 19, 2021, the Municipal Review […]
by Mary Grow One issue Vassalboro voters will decide at their June town meeting is whether to approve or reject a new ordinance titled “Town of Vassalboro Marijuana Business Ordinance.” Selectmen have scheduled a public hearing on the ordinance for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 29, in the Vassalboro Community School gymnasium. Because the vote on […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro School Board members held their regular monthly meeting April 13, followed by a meeting with the budget committee to answer questions about their proposed 2021-22 budget. Vassalboro Community School Principal Megan Allen said the second full day with classes back in person just ended, and went smoothly. The schedule called for […]
by Mary Grow In addition to another review of the draft warrant for the June 7 and 8 annual town meeting, Vassalboro selectmen continued plans for the April 26, 250th anniversary celebration, and discussed two other issues at their April 15 meeting. The town meeting warrant now includes the school budget articles. Superintendent Alan Pfeiffer […]
by Mary Grow Benton, China and Clinton The 1915 hall that serves Benton Grange No. 458 is one of 16 Maine Grange halls listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and one of two individually listed in Kennebec County. It was added to the register April 28, 2004. (The other Kennebec County Grange Hall […]