OTISFIELD — Voters at the town meeting on Saturday, June 25, will be asked to approve bonding $250,000 as the town’s share of a joint project to repair the Pleasant Lake Dam. The meeting to consider the 29-article warrant begins at 9 a.m. in the Community Hall on Route 121. The dam on Route 121 in […]
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Otisfield opens sections of public roads to ATV use
OTISFIELD — Selectmen on Wednesday firmed up the town’s new all-terrain vehicle policy, paving the way for ATV riders to hit the trails beginning May 15. The board agreed to allow the ATV season to end no later than Dec. 15, or earlier at the discretion of the road commissioner. The move ensures heavy vehicles would […]
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Undermanned but active, firefighter crunch spares few
OTISFIELD — The Gore Road Fire Station is an active station, it just isn’t a manned station, according to Fire Chief Kyle Jordan. There simply are not enough firefighters living in that area, he said. John Steede, of Bow Street – that intersects with Gore Road about 500 feet from the fire station – met with the Otisfield Board […]
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Otisfield dam, firefighters topics for selectmen
OTISFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will meet with the Casco selectmen March 1 to discuss repairs to the leaking Pleasant Lake Dam. The meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Casco Community Center on Route 121. Casco and Otisfield selectmen received a report in 2014 by the Maine Emergency Management Agency that said there […]
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Otisfield Grange building in danger of collapsing
OTISFIELD — A 4.0 earthquake could take down the former Frederick Robie Grange Hall on Gore Road or cause the wooden roof to “sail like a kite” out into the street, Code Enforcement Officer Richard St. John has told selectmen. Otisfield officials are hoping before that happens, the owner of the now vacant cement block former […]
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Otisfield board discusses deteriorating Grange Hall
OTISFIELD — Selectmen agreed the former Grange Hall on Gore Road is dangerous and are taking steps to ensure it does not pose a threat to others. The vacant building, at the corner of Bonney Hill and Gore roads, is made of cement blocks. A crack the length of the building occurred on the western […]
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Otisfield voters hear about road plans
OTISFIELD – Voters at next week’s annual town meeting will be presented with two road improvement plans that would put the 2015-16 budget at $1.73 million or $2.14 million, depending on whether either is approved. Residents at Thursday night’s hearing on the 2015-16 budget appeared cautious about the proposals. The plans were developed by the […]
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Otisfield presenting revised cell tower law
OTISFIELD — More than two years after the town’s only cell tower application erupted in a bitter legal battle, voters will be presented with an amended ordinance that may result in the eventual siting of a cell tower. At a public hearing Thursday night at the Community Hall, selectmen and members of the Wireless Telecommunications […]
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Otisfield hearing to present budget, ordinance changes
OTISFIELD — Voters at Thursday night’s public hearing will have an opportunity to learn what’s in the proposed $2.1 million budget and details on proposed changes to the Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Ordinance and Building ordinances. The hearing begins at 7 p.m. June 11 at the Community Hall on Route 121. The budget, ordinances and other […]
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Resident fights for abatement on conservation land
OTISFIELD — The owner of 56 acres of conservation land will appeal to the state for relief of the town’s appraisal that she says is $267,000 too high. Ethel Bean Turner was denied a tax abatement on the town’s $319,285 assessment of 56 acres of mostly wooded land at Long Point on Thompson Lake. Turner’s appraiser […]