CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Voters will consider 60 articles amounting to a proposed budget of $2.3 million when they gather Wednesday for the annual town meeting. Voters will be asked to offset the proposed budget with town revenues of $462,410, making a proposed net budget of $1.85 million, Town Manager Dave Cota said. The meeting begins […]
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Getting ‘hit’ at the Newry town meeting
NEWRY — I arrived Tuesday night to cover Newry’s town meeting and took a seat on a bench along the wall between fire Chief Bruce Pierce and a pretty young woman wearing gray suede knee-high boots. About halfway through the meeting, the woman tapped me on the shoulder and asked, “Can I hit you?” Then […]
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Avon man charged with being fugitive from Colorado
AVON — A Franklin County deputy arrested a man Wednesday on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in Colorado, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. Nathan Pierce, 53, who had been staying at a camp on East Madrid Road, is on probation for threatening two people with a baseball bat in Colorado for their […]
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Spring fires changed the face of downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — It wasn’t just one shock to the downtown — it was three. Three fires downtown over the course of a week between April and May not only destroyed 10 large tenement buildings, putting dozens of families out in the street, it forced the city to double down on efforts to clean up the […]
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Councilors confident about Pierce Street housing project
LEWISTON — Councilors said they hoped a public housing project proposed for downtown lots where apartment buildings burned on May 3 would make the area better. Volunteers of America Northern New England would bring meals, counseling and financial education to public spaces at their proposed Pierce Place development, Vice President of Business Development Julia Wilcock […]
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Four arrested in Portland prostitution sting
PORTLAND — An effort to curb prostitution in Portland’s Parkside neighborhood netted four arrests on Sunday and early Monday. All four men were arrested between 11 p.m. Sunday and 12:25 a.m. Monday, according to Portland City Spokeswoman Nicole Clegg. All the arrests occurred within a two-block area on Weymouth Street, Clegg said. Arrested and charged […]
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Huddle Up: Pierce took fans along for ride
Paul Pierce was one of the most fascinating players to ever wear a Celtics uniform. And one of the most human. Now that he is gone, traded to Brooklyn with the equally incomparable Kevin Garnett, human nature makes us appreciate him more than ever. It starts with what the great Boston Globe columnist (and Bath […]