Issue for December 2, 2021
Senior Spectrum holds 3rd annual Pie Crawl
Spectrum Generations recently held its 3rd annual Pie Crawl in downtown Hallowell. The Sweet Pie Award was presented to Traverse Coffee Co. and the Savory Pie Award was given to the Quarry Tap Room…
Sharon Nichols steps down from Palermo Community Library Board of Trustees
The Palermo Community Library Board of Trustees express their deep appreciation for all the time and effort Sharon Nichols has dedicated to the library as a board member and chairman since 2014. As a result of her considerable efforts, she leaves an indelible mark on the Library, both in function and form…
Your Local News
Select board listens to three speakers on different topics
CHINA — Speakers on three different topics at the Nov. 22 China select board meeting gave board members information to ponder and perhaps act on later…
MBC accepts chairman’s recommendation to select board
CHINA — At a short meeting Nov. 18, members of China’s Municipal Building Committee (MBC) accepted Chairman Sheldon Goodine’s recommendation on documents to be forwarded to China select board members…
Town receives plowing contract for $27,500
WINDSOR — At their November 9 meeting, the Windsor select board dealt with an abbreviated agenda. Town Manager Theresa Haskell reported she has received the plowing contract from McGee Construction…
LETTERS: Palermo Community Garden gives back
from Connie Bellet (Palermo) — We are halfway through the SeedMoney Grant Challenge, which ends on December 15, and have raised over half of the goal of $650, but your support is still needed. The Community Garden provides freshly picked organic greens, herbs, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, and root vegetables every growing season for our friends and neighbors who come to the Palermo Food Pantry…
Emerging from Willow tunnel
AUGUSTA — Webelo Willow Mudie emerges from a willow tunnel at the two-mile point and moved out to complete her three-mile hike. Leading the patrol as the map reader, Willow and her mom were buddies as they completed the outer loop and a modified pond trail at the Viles Arboretum…
PHOTO: Lawrence girls varsity, JV basketball team
FAIRFIELD — Team photo of the Lawrence girls varsity and JV basketball team…
Beans, beans and more beans!
CHINA — If you had a chili dog or a cup of chili at the China Baptist Church Hamburger booth at the Windsor Fair….this is where it came from. Pastor Ron saved all the (clean) cans and had everyone build a pyramid with them during Fellowship hour after church Sunday…
Scouts honor veterans at local ceremonies
AUGUSTA — Youth and leaders from Augusta Cub Scout Pack #603 and Troop #603 assisted a Veterans Seminar, held at American Legion Post #205. Scouts from Jackman and Boothbay took part in U.S. Flag retirement ceremonies on Veterans Day…
EVENTS: CLA to present 10-year runoff plan
CHINA — A 10-year plan to restore water quality in China Lake will be the focus of an online, interactive public meeting sponsored by the China Lake Association on Thursday, December 2, at 6 pm. The meeting will provide an overview of the proposed measures needed to minimize stormwater runoff into the lake, address internal phosphorus loading from lake sediments, and ultimately prevent annual algal blooms that have been occurring in China Lake over the last 40 years…
Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Clinton, China Libraries (new)
CLINTON/CHINA HISTORY — Brown Memorial Library, in Clinton, is the third of the local libraries on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1899-1900, it was added to the Register on April 28, 1975. In their application for the listing, Earle Shettleworth, Jr., and Frank A. Beard, of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, compared the Brown Memorial Library to Fairfield’s Lawrence Library… by Mary Grow [1870 words]
Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Libraries – Continued
CLINTON HISTORY — Lawrence Library, in Fairfield, described to readers last week, is one of three libraries in the central Kennebec Valley whose buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places. The other two are Lithgow Public Library, in Augusta, this week’s topic, and Brown Memorial Library, in Clinton… by Mary Grow [1671 words]
Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Libraries
CENTRAL ME HISTORY — The differential treatment in education discussed last week did not necessarily make women less interested than men in learning and literature. Local histories mention discussion and debate groups, most by and for men, some by and for women, and early libraries… by Mary Grow [2925 words]
Up and down the Kennebec Valley: Women in education
CENTRAL ME HISTORY — Readers of recent articles in this series on the history of central Kennebec Valley towns will have noticed differences between education for men and education for women from the late 1700s into the 20th century… by Mary Grow [1955 words]
2021-’22 Real Estate Tax Due Dates
2021-2022 Real Estate tax due dates for the following towns: CHINA, FAIRFIELD, PALERMO, SIDNEY, VASSALBORO, WATERVILLE, WINDSOR and WINSLOW…
Webber’s Pond
Webber’s Pond is a comic drawn by an anonymous central Maine resident (click thumbnail to enlarge)…
The Remembrance Tree
Help us decorate the tree and at the same time remember a loved one. For only $10 a ball, you can commemorate a love one who has passed. Mail your donation and the names of your remembered loved ones to The Town Line, PO Box 89, South China, ME 04358. Deadline is Friday, December 17!
Obituaries
WHITEFIELD – Paul E. “Perky” Perkins, 79, of Whitefield, passed away at his residence on Sunday, November 21, 2021, following a long and difficult struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. Paul was born in Gardiner on June 28, 1942, to Shirley and Lorraine Perkins… and remembering 13 others.
Common Ground: Win a $10 gift certificate!
DEADLINE: Friday, December 10, 2021
Identify the people in these three photos, and tell us what they have in common. You could win a $10 gift certificate to Retail Therapy Boutique in Waterville! Email your answer to townline@townline.org or through our Contact page. Include your name and address with your answer. Use “Common Ground” in the subject!
Previous winner: Kay Pooler, Vassalboro
Town Line Original Columnists
SCORES & OUTDOORS
by Roland D. Hallee | A friend of ours, who lives along the Kennebec River, in Fairfield, told us last weekend that she came across a “dead” opossum in her backyard. We’ll get to that later. Opossums normally live in forested or brushy habitats, but they have adapted well to living close to people in cities and suburbs…
CRITTER CHATTER
by Jayne Winters | Chatting with Don Cote at the Duck Pond Wildlife Center is always enjoyable. Don has years of interesting experiences and his stories are touched with a sense of humor, as well as extensive personal knowledge and an obvious love for animals. I thought I’d mention a few of them this month…
I’M JUST CURIOUS
by Debbie Walker | Do you have a sewing machine? (If so, I know you deal with tension!) When did you start sewing? Who taught you? If I mention the word “tension”, does it cause you to grin? How about patterns? Do you know how to read a pattern?…
REVIEW POTPOURRI
by Peter Cates | Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was an egomaniac who, as my high school glee club director put it succinctly, knew he was great. His 16-hour Ring of the Niebelungen was premiered at Bayreuth, in Germany, in 1876 and has been produced many times since then. It is a mammoth quartet of four operas…