JAY — The chairman of the Oxford County Board of Assessment Review will conduct a training workshop for the Jay Board of Assessment Review on Thursday to help them understand their roles and responsibilities. The Jay board will meet at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Town Office. The board is reviewing Verso Androscoggin LLC’s […]
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Jay board accepts Verso’s appeal application for processing
JAY — The town’s Board of Assessment Review found Friday that Verso Androscoggin LLC’s appeal application of the 2013 tax abatement was acceptable for processing, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said. Verso has appealed the $829,258 tax abatement selectpersons granted on Jan. 6. At the time, the board agreed to lower the April 1, 2013, valuation […]
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Jay board to determine if Verso’s appeal application is acceptable for processing
JAY — The town’s Board of Assessment Review will meet at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at the Town Office to determine whether Verso Androscoggin’s appeal application for a 2013 tax abatement is acceptable for processing. Verso has appealed the abatement of $829,258. Selectpersons voted Jan. 6 to reduce the valuation for that year from […]
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Verso appeals Jay’s 2013 tax abatement decision, claims town discriminated
JAY — Verso Androscoggin LLC filed an appeal Friday afternoon with the town, claiming that the $829,258 tax abatement selectpersons granted for the 2013 tax year is wrong and unlawful. Verso claims the property remains substantially overvalued. Jay selectpersons reduced the valuation of Verso’s property from $815.4 million to $591.9 million for the 2013 tax […]
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Weld selectmen grant extension to campground owners in tax abatement appeal
WELD — Selectmen voted Monday to grant an extension to Dummer Camps Inc. on an appeal President Carolina Gail Shreve filed with the Franklin County commissioners on a personal property tax abatement, according to Board of Selectmen Chairman Tom Skolfield. The Weld board denied Shreve’s abatement request in October 2014. The personal property tax abatement […]
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Weld campground appeal to go before commissioners
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners will hear an appeal for a personal property tax abatement for Gordon Dummer’s Camps Inc. in Weld. Commissioners voted 2-1 on Jan. 6 to hear the case, with Chairman Gary McGrane of Jay and Fred Hardy of New Sharon in favor. Clyde Barker of Strong said he opposed the move […]
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Turner mom-and-pop store challenges Hannaford’s liquor license
TURNER — The owners of Bryant’s Airport Variety, a new convenience store and diner by Twitchell’s Airport and Seaplane Base, are challenging the state’s decision to award the town’s last agency liquor store license to the new Hannaford instead of their business. It’s a complicated story of three stores, two liquor licenses, one new court […]
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Man stripped of lawyer right appeals
PORTLAND — A Maine man sentenced to seven years in jail after a judge stripped him of his right to a court-appointed lawyer is appealing his conviction to the state’s highest court. Maine Supreme Judicial Court officials say Monday that Joshua Nisbet of Scarborough is appealing. An official says it will be months before the […]
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State to hear woman’s appeal to keep neutered squirrel, flightless bird
HARPSWELL, Maine — The fate of a crippled blue jay and neutered gray squirrel could hang in the balance as a 66-year-old Cundy’s Harbor woman appears before Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife officials Tuesday to argue that she should be allowed to keep the two animals. In March, a team of 10 game […]
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Court rejects convicted man’s appeal in New Gloucester double murder
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s highest court has denied the appeal of a Massachusetts man convicted of killing the mother of his four children and one of his best friends. Joel Hayden of New Bedford, Mass., said in his appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that his murder convictions should be reduced to manslaughter because […]