JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to get bids on clearing a roughly 20- by 2,000-foot sewer line easement in Livermore Falls. Sewer Department Superintendent Mark Holt said the job would likely cost between $5,000 and $10,000. The easement is roughly 2,000 feet long and 20 feet wide and has trees, poison sumac and ivy, vines […]
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Residents share concerns about easement roads in Livermore
LIVERMORE — Selectperson Tom Gould on Tuesday provided an update on the town’s easement-road maintenance issue. Selectpersons voted 4-1 in March to discontinue winter maintenance on 10 roads the town had been plowing. Since then, it has been determined that some of the roads are private, some public and some are considered easement roads. Earlier […]
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BFA: Bingham property could be given to state
BETHEL — The Bingham Forest Authority voted to recommend to Bethel selectmen to go to court to determine if the BFA has the right to use the Daisy Bryant Road to access the 2,300-acre Bingham Forest. “If the judge says ‘no,’ we’re filing papers with the state of Maine (to give the land to the […]
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Judicial settlement to decide New Gloucester bookkeeper’s job
NEW GLOUCESTER — Selectmen Laura Sturgis and Steven Libby will accompany Town Manager Paul First to the Cumberland County courthouse on Wednesday for a closed-door judicial settlement conference on the Sandra Sacco lawsuit against the town of New Gloucester. Maine Municipal Association appointed an attorney to the case to represent the town using insurance. Sacco, […]
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Franklin County ceases winter maintenance on portion of Madrid Township road
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to close 1/5 of a mile of East Madrid Road in Madrid Township to winter maintenance. The action followed a hearing on the proposal. The county will continue summer maintenance on the county’s portion of the road but will not plow snow or sand or perform other winter […]
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Kingfield Selectman: Delinquent taxpayers a problem
KINGFIELD — Delinquent taxpayers have become a bigger burden on the municipality. The total of unpaid taxes from the 2013-14 fiscal year is $450,000, Selectman John Dill told the board at its Monday night meeting. He and Administrative Assistant Leanna Targett said that although tax bills are sent out twice a year, the option might […]
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Baxter State Park Authority accepts 43-acre easement on Katahdin Lake
The Baxter State Park Authority on Monday voted to accept a conservation easement on a historic 43-acre lot that includes 500 feet of shore frontage on Katahdin Lake. The easement was granted by the James Sewall family, which offered an unconditional gift of conservation rights on the parcel. More than 4,500 acres surrounding Katahdin Lake […]
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Rumford residents vote to grant easement to Swain Road resident
RUMFORD — Residents voted at a special town meeting Thursday evening to grant an easement to a resident for land at Swain Road. The easement was conveyed to Tammy Witas of 343 Swain Road, who recently put her house up for sale and learned the wraparound porch is 7 feet inside the town’s right of […]