Carthage voters set aside $356,998 to prepare for large increases in school tax costs due to its wind project value. The project will lead to drastically reduced state payments for school costs. What does that say about Dixfield’s wind proposal? Canton’s project will lead to further reduction in state funding. If Dixfield passes its new-old […]
Lauren Hebert
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Wind power project is anti-Dixfield
Some people have suggested that members of the Dixfield Planning Board are anti-business. Once built, the wind power project would give Dixfield only one new job. Its tax value would result in only one-half of one mill in tax reduction after state school subsidy and county taxes are adjusted. Anti-business? High rates for electricity may […]
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Dixfield Planning Board member defends against bias complaint
DIXFIELD — A Planning Board member defended himself against a resident’s complaint of bias at Monday evening’s selectmen meeting. Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Donald Lutick filed an official complaint against Lauren Hebert, alleging Hebert is biased against wind development in Dixfield and shouldn’t be editing the Wind Energy Facility Ordinance. The Planning Board is […]
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Vote ‘yes’ to say ‘no’ to wind power
Will wind power benefit Dixfield? Wind turbines would permanently destroy Colonel Holman and the Common. Towns across Maine are regretting what they have done. Maine’s landscape is being destroyed. Roxbury residents hate the noise and the ugly towers. Wind power is not worth the destruction. The electricity is exported to Connecticut but the local environmental […]
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SmartCare P.T. opening new clinic in Wilton
WILTON — Physical therapists Annie Dyer, DPT, Lauren Hebert, DPT, and athletic trainer Aaron Perreault, ATC, of SmartCare Physical Therapy in Dixfield, announce they are opening a new physical therapy clinic Nov. 15 on Route 2 in Wilton. SmartCare is an outpatient physical therapy practice specializing in musculo-skeletal pain problems such as back and neck […]