NEWRY — Residents voted at Tuesday evening’s annual town meeting to raise and appropriate $10,000 for the Mountain Explorer public transportation program. The free service based in Bethel that takes people to Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry and restaurants in the area. Town Administrator Amy Bernard told voters that at the 2015 annual town […]
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Newry town meeting voters decrease Mountain Explorer shuttle bus donation to $7,500
NEWRY — Town meeting voters Tuesday night reduced the amount they wanted to donate to a public transit service between Newry and Bethel. After electing Oxford County Commissioner David Duguay of Byron as moderator, voters breezed through warrant articles, approving every one until they reached Article 13. That one asked to see what sum of […]
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Newry town meeting warrant, budget finalized
NEWRY — Town elections will be held Monday, March 2, at the Town Office. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to choose a moderator, a selectman and two school board members. Administrator Loretta Powers said Wednesday that Selectman Brooks Morton is seeking re-election in a contested race with former Selectman Jim […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Newry board adds shuttle bus request to warrant
NEWRY — While working on the March town meeting warrant Tuesday night, selectmen decided to include a request for $10,000 from The Mountain Explorer shuttle bus but not include a recommendation. The free public transit program between Bethel and Newry takes people to work, to Sunday River Ski Resort to ski or snowboard, and to […]
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Newry researching funding to continue free shuttle service to Bethel
NEWRY — Selectmen were asked Tuesday to help figure out how to fund the free Mountain Explorer shuttle bus program between Bethel and Newry. Pat Roma from the Mountain Explorer Committee spoke about funding for the program that takes people to work, to Sunday River Ski Resort to ski or snowboard and to dinner at […]
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Newry Planning Board approves 4 applications, tables another
NEWRY — Planning Board members unanimously approved all but one application before them Wednesday night. Work on that application — George J. Kelly and Diane Whitten’s four-lot Mountainside Homes subdivision project — was tabled at the request of the applicant. The board approved the site plan for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School’s proposed building […]
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Newry Planning Board: Subdivision application still not complete
NEWRY — Planning Board members visited a 7.9-acre parcel off Mountain View Road on Wednesday night to learn where a new road extension will be built to access three planned lots. The board then met at the Newry Town Office to consider George J. Kelly and Diane Whitten’s Mountainside Homes subdivision project, but found its […]