JAY — Selectpersons voted 3-1 Monday to offer to share the Fire Rescue Department’s E-One ladder truck with Livermore Falls for $6,330 for six months. It is estimated that Livermore Falls’ 1988 ladder truck needs $11,200 to $14,000 in repairs to keep it in service. Jay’s truck cost $498,000 in 1997 and had a 25-year […]
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Norway looks at new ladder truck
NORWAY — Officials from Norway are heading to Virginia this week to check out a ladder truck they hope to purchase. If the 2004 Pierce Dash, with a 100-foot-tall platform, passes inspection and the buyer and seller come to terms, a special town meeting will be held next Thursday, Dec. 17, to get approval to finance […]
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Woodstock selectmen discuss ladder truck, OK memorials policy
WOODSTOCK — Town Manager Vern Maxfield informed selectmen Tuesday evening that the Fire Department sold its old ladder truck for $1,912. The board voted in September to allow the department to purchase a $49,900 firetruck from a fire department in Canton, Mass., after discovering the old ladder truck needed repairs to the turntable gears, which […]
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Woodstock voters say ‘no’ to ladder truck repairs
WOODSTOCK — Residents on Tuesday night overwhelmingly voted against appropriating up to $10,000 from the Fire Truck Reserve Account to pay for repairs to the ladder truck during a special town meeting at the Woodstock Town Office. The $10,000 would have paid for repairing the turntable gears on the truck, Town Manager Vern Maxfield said. […]
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Woodstock voters to decide money questions
WOODSTOCK — Residents will decide how to deal with $50,000 in overdrafts and a reduction of the town’s tax commitment at a special town meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, at the Woodstock Town Office, Town Manager Vern Maxfield said Friday morning. The town meeting will take after the selectmen meeting at 5 p.m, […]
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Roxbury invited to join ladder truck purchase agreement
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Thursday night to add the town of Roxbury to the Ladder Truck Joint Purchase Agreement that also includes Rumford and Mexico. Fire Chief Robert Chase explained to the board that by adding Roxbury, the price Rumford pays for the ladder truck would decrease by “about $1,000,” while […]
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Andover to vote on fuel tank, ladder truck
ANDOVER – Voters will decide next week whether to raise money to replace the diesel fuel tank at the town garage. The special town meeting is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Town Hall. Selectman Susan Merrow said that earlier this year, the town discovered its diesel tank at the town garage […]
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Jay Fire Department’s ladder truck to be repaired
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday to have the diamond plate on the Fire Department’s 1997 E-1 ladder truck refurbished and to have some rust repaired and painted, Town Manager Ruth Cushman said Tuesday. Larry White Sr., public safety director, had requested quotes from two Jay businesses, she said. One could not do it, she said. […]