NORWAY — Residents along a rural private road in North Norway implored town officials to reject a proposed wedding center planned for Delano Drive to protect their peaceful neighborhood. Around 60 area residents packed into a large meeting room at the Town Office on Thursday night to discuss allowing owners of a rural lodge and […]
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Wedding barn developer says he’ll cut back on parking spaces
NORWAY — A Portland man constructing a wedding barn on a rural private road has pledged to drastically reduce the number of parking spaces at the site in response to neighbors’ concerns about traffic. Portland-based business owner Anthony Fratianne said Monday that he will reduce the number of on-site parking spots at Granite Ridge Estate […]
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Norway board holding hearing on wedding center development
NORWAY — Residents are asking the Planning Board to reject an application by Anthony Fratianne to use a barn in a residential neighborhood on Delano Drive for weddings and other functions. A public hearing is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, July 10, in the Town Office on Danforth Street. Fratianne, a Portland-based lawyer, submitted a […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Farmington board holds to rules, postpones application review
FARMINGTON — Planning Board members approved applications for construction of a Family Dollar store, a new barn for L. Herbert York and a parking lot expansion for William Marceau on Monday. But by a vote of 4-3, they declined to review an application for construction of additional storage buildings because the application was submitted a […]
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Avon business prefabricating post, beam frame for Norlands barn
AVON — Thirty-six thick, timber frame posts are stacked against a wall in the Maine Mountain Timber Frames workshop on Route 4. Mortise and tenon joinery have been cut into the hemlock posts so they will interlock when the new barn frame is put together at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore. A mortise […]
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Animals feared lost in North Yarmouth barn fire
NORTH YARMOUTH (AP) — Authorities said a barn housing dozens of sheep and hundreds of chickens has been destroyed in an early morning fire in North Yarmouth. The exact number of animals that died has yet to be determined. The fire in the West Pownal Road barn was reported by the owners just after 2 […]
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Fire razes Turner barn
TURNER — A community rallied to help a local farmer after a dramatic fire Sunday afternoon razed a dairy barn on North Parish Road. The farmer estimated damage at $500,000. Just after 2 p.m., fire broke out in a barn at the Caldwell Family Farm, prompting a fire and rescue response from Turner, Buckfield, Livermore […]
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Campaign launched to raise money to finish barn
LIVERMORE — Directors of the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center launched a campaign Monday to raise the remaining $250,000 needed to build a barn. A barn and the farmer’s cottage were lost in an accidental fire on April, 28, 2008. The cottage was rebuilt and opened in 2011. The center is a nonprofit living museum, dedicated […]