MEXICO – The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday to approve a letter of support to the Maine Department of Transportation to replace the bridge between Mexico and Peru. Town Manager John Madigan said the MDOT is attempting to apply for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant and it requires a letter of support from […]
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Locals share concerns about replacing Mexico-Peru bridge
MEXICO — There is much concern about what the future will bring with the eventual replacement of the bridge over the Androscoggin River between Mexico and Peru. Approximately 40 people gathered in the Calvin Lyons Meeting Room on March 3 to share those concerns in an hourlong session with members of the Maine Department of […]
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Auburn neighbors question Park Avenue paving
AUBURN — The Park Avenue paving project sounds just wonderful. There will be sidewalks and wide shoulders to accommodate walkers, joggers and cyclists. Steep hills will be flattened and the road will be smoothed. It sounds like a 1-mile stretch of paradise. Problem: Project managers want to get started in 2015. The people who live […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Bethel, Oxford Hills
Bethel selectmen OK letter to MDOT for radar speed trailer
BETHEL — Selectmen agreed Monday to draft a letter to the Maine Department of Transportation saying they’re interested in applying for the radar speed trailer loan program again. The trailer is set up in certain places in town and displays how fast drivers are going, Town Manager Jim Doar said. Doar said the town normally […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Car, plow truck damaged in Strong
STRONG — A car was destroyed Saturday when it hit the back of a Maine Department of Transportation plow truck on Route 4, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. The 2010 BMW driven by James Hammond, 35, of Dallas Plantation was passing four vehicles behind the truck driven by Mark Tolman, 54, of New Portland when […]
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Decision on reopening Penobscot Narrows Bridge to be made Monday
VERONA ISLAND — A decision about whether to reopen the Penobscot Narrows Bridge will be made at about 8 a.m. Monday, according to the Maine Department of Transportation. The bridge was closed on noon Sunday to let air temperatures melt the remaining ice off the cables and pylons, according to information posted on the MDOT […]
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State hears of regional transit’s importance to Western Maine
AUBURN — Regional bus service is important to Western Maine, bus users and regional officials told the Maine Department of Transportation on Tuesday. “Younger than my generation, they’ve never seen a bus north of Auburn,” said Mike Luciano of the Greater Franklin Development Corporation. “It’s a whole new thing for them. At the plant I […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Collapsed culvert closes Route 119 in Paris
PARIS — A mile-and-a-half stretch of Route 119 between the two ends of Halls Pond Road was closed to traffic Wednesday as work crews fixed a collapsed culvert. Vehicles were diverted around Halls Pond Road. According to Maine Department of Transportation spokesman Ted Talbot, emergency road crews were called to the area late Tuesday morning […]
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Selectmen holding public meeting with MDOT to discuss culvert
ROXBURY — The Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Town Office to discuss culvert work on Route 120. “We’ve been complaining about this culvert for awhile now,” Selectman Michael Worthley said Tuesday “Beavers have built dams at the culvert before. Every time we have rain, […]