NEW GLOUCESTER — The Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Day One’s application for a 12-bed residential treatment facility for adolescent boys at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the New Gloucester Meeting House. Day One is proposing a substance abuse treatment center for males ages 14 to 20 at 934 Intervale Road, a property […]
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Schiavi wins appellate appeal
OXFORD — The Board of Appeals has tentatively denied local businessman John Palmer’s appellate appeal of the Planning Board’s Feb. 23 decision to approve a site plan application for Coastline Homes of Oxford. In a 3-0 vote, the board agreed on Wednesday, April 12, that the Planning Board’s decision to approve Coastline Homes’s site plan application […]
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Oxford Appeals Board hearing case against business
Coastline Homes on Route 26 in Oxford is developing a modular home sales site that is expected to open this spring. The Appeals Board will hold a hearing this week on the approval of the business’ site plan review application. OXFORD — Two longtime Route 26 modular home business owners will face off before the Appeals […]
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Dunkin’ Donuts building permit upheld by Norway board
NORWAY — The Board of Appeals has voted to uphold a building permit for a Dunkin’ Donuts shop in the former Tim Hortons Coffee & Bake Shop on Fair Street. The Planning Board voted unanimously on Sept. 22 to authorize the permit. Michael Rentschler, construction manager of MDM Management Group of Acton, Massachusetts, said the permit would […]
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New Gloucester Board of Appeals denies Dollar General Route 100 variance
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Board of Appeals on Wednesday denied Dollar General Corp. a variance to the zoning ordinance for its planned retail store at 1119 Lewiston Road in Upper Gloucester village. The 9,000-square-foot building would sit on a 1.4-acre lot. The corporation, represented by New Gloucester DG LLC, asked that it be allowed to have […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, executive session, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Buckfield: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center […]
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Canton Planning Board approves one project, denies another
CANTON — The Planning Board on Thursday evening approved an application to build a deck on a home on Jewett Hill Road and denied an application to construct a two-story building on the old fire station lot. They also discussed doing research to create a beach ordinance to try to prevent people from letting their […]
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Canton selectmen appoint Board of Appeals
CANTON — Thanks to selectmen and enough residents who submitted applications, Canton now has a Board of Appeals. There are two projects denied by the Planning Board that are waiting for an appeals hearing. Board of Selectmen Chairman Donny Hutchins said Torey Olaf Johnson, Dave Bowen, Jackie Kilbreth, Kristi White and Jason Vaughan offered to […]
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Otisfield cell tower law revised; vote expected in June
OTISFIELD — Almost two years after the town’s first and only cell tower application erupted in a bitter legal battle between residents and officials, the committee charged with revising the town’s wireless telecommunications ordinance has completed its work. The Ordinance Policy Review Committee formally accepted the final draft of the Wireless Telecommunications Facility Ordinance on […]
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Recall ordinance review, water and sewer project update on agenda for Dixfield board
DIXFIELD — A review of the recall ordinance process and an update on a water and sewer project are among the items to be discussed at the 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, Board of Selectmen meeting at Ludden Memorial Library. During the Aug. 25 board meeting, the selectmen reviewed drafts of recall ordinances from several […]