DIXFIELD — The Regional School Unit 56 board hired six employees Tuesday evening and they will begin working when the new district begins operations July 1. The employees are: • Brian Keene, director of technology. He is the technology director at Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico. • Deborah Nokes, director of nutrition. […]
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Canton board OKs ball park movie night
CANTON — After learning details Thursday night from resident Phyllis Ouellette, who suggested the town hold a movie night at the ball field, selectmen unanimously voted to do so. Two selectmen who have their own businesses — Chairman Donny Hutchins and Malcolm Ray — liked the idea so much they agreed to cover the licensing […]
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Canton may have resolved sand/salt shed compliance issue with MDOT
CANTON — Buying the old Maine Department of Transportation facility on Jewett Hill Road last August may have spared Canton from MDOT’s April ultimatum to build a sand and salt shed. Selectmen Brian Keene said late Tuesday afternoon that after town meeting voters approved buying the building in June, selectmen and MDOT signed off on […]
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Canton board gets road reports, remembers ‘Dad’ Vashaw
CANTON — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to schedule a meeting with Hartford selectmen in Hartford to resolve a road-plowing matter. They also got an update on the final cost of the Staples Hill Road project and shared memories and a moment of silence for longtime Canton resident Norman Vashaw, 88, who passed away May 10 […]
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Canton board OKs variances to setbacks for $350,000 building project
CANTON — Selectmen wasted little time Tuesday evening in granting variances to setbacks for a proposed $350,000 downtown revitalization project by local businessman and Selectman Malcolm Ray, who was absent. Ray wants to construct three buildings on nonconforming lots between Whitney Brook and Main Street (Route 140) in a general development area that has a […]
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Canton board to consider appeal for proposed $350K downtown revival project
CANTON — Selectmen on Thursday night held their last meeting in the Town Office at 9 Staples Hill Road. The building will be closed Saturday, April 11, so that its contents can be moved into the new Town Office in the new building next to the fire station on Route 108 at 94 Turner St. […]
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Canton board opposes request to back school budget cut
CANTON — Selectmen said Thursday night they do not favor supporting the Mexico Board of Selectmen’s decision on Feb. 9 asking Regional School Unit 10 Superintendent Craig King and the school board to reduce its 2015-16 budget. Selectmen talked at length about a letter from Mexico selectmen wanting the Canton board’s backing. Chairman Donny Hutchins […]
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Obscure laws ban whistling, radioactive waste in Canton
CANTON — The theme song for “The Andy Griffith Show” from the 1960s, could never have been legally recorded or performed in Canton. On April 9, 1963, townspeople adopted an ordinance that banned whistling, among other things. That law and a few other “funky” laws are still on the books, although they’re no longer enforced, […]