by Mary Grow Vassalboro school officials have no idea what returning to school in the fall will mean. “We’ve got to be ready for change,” School Board Chairman Kevin Levasseur summarized during the board’s June 16 in-person meeting in the Vassalboro Community School (VCS) cafeteria. Superintendent Alan Pfeiffer said he and colleagues have guidelines from […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro town officials and voters pulled off their June 22 open town meeting in style, with Covid-19 guidelines observed. The gym at Vassalboro Community School was effectively turned into two rooms by a solid curtain that stretched almost from wall to wall, leaving space for moderator Richard Thompson to stand at one […]
by Mary Grow A short June 22 China selectmen’s meeting focused on on-going town programs. The item discussed longest was the revised TIF (Tax Increment Financing) program prepared by the TIF Committee and retiring Town Manager Dennis Heath. Heath said he, TIF Committee Chairman Frank Soares and representatives of the state Department of Economic and […]
by Mary Grow Palermo is the only town in this series that is not in Kennebec County. The boundary line between China on the west and Palermo on the east is also the line between Kennebec and Waldo counties. It runs through Branch Mills, formerly Palermo’s main commercial center. It is not Palermo residents’ fault […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program was the selectmen’s main topic at their June 11 meeting, held in-person in the town office meeting room with appropriate social distancing and very few masks. Selectmen received recommendations for interpreting, using or considering updates to Vassalboro’s current TIF program, and, after a public hearing, approved […]
by Mary Grow Vassalboro officials are going ahead with a Monday evening open town meeting and Tuesday written-ballot voting as in past years – but with adaptations. The 2020 town meeting warrant calls voters to assemble at 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 22, at Vassalboro Community School. The written ballot questions will not be decided the […]
by Mary Grow China Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Committee members had four topics on their minds as they met June 15: money, the second phase of the causeway project at the head of China Lake’s east basin, the impending change in town managers and needed amendments to China’s TIF plan. The money issue was covered […]
by Mary Grow Outgoing China Town Manager Dennis Heath explained some of the main questions on the July 14 town business meeting warrant and their financial effects at a June 14 public hearing. The July 14 meeting will be by written ballot, with polls open at the town office complex on Lakeview Drive from 7 a.m. […]
by Mary Grow China Planning Board members acted on two important issues at their June 9 meeting, setting the schedule for moving the revised comprehensive plan to a November vote and approving Phase Two of the causeway project at the head of China Lake’s east basin. Planners intend to ask selectmen to review the revised […]
by Mary Grow There is debate over names of the first settlers in what is now Albion, partly because records are incomplete, partly because current Albion once included parts of several other towns. For example, Nathaniel Wiggin’s and several other families’ holdings at the north end of China Lake’s east basin were in Albion before […]