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Plowed out: Age, cost, hours are pushing more plow drivers to hang it up

Business has been pretty good lately at Reggie’s Sales & Service in Auburn. It could be just the normal gear-up for winter, with customers looking at new snowblowers or servicing old ones. But, owner Reggie Emery thinks there’s something else in play. He estimated that recently, more than 25 people have been in his store […]

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Plow 1, Mailbox 0.

Earlier this winter, a plow truck took out Beth Holloway’s Litchfield mailbox. She put up a replacement. Before too long, another plow snapped that one in two. “They also ruined my rock wall around the back of the mailbox where I put my flowers,” Holloway said. Mike Blanchet in Farmington hired a bucket loader to dig […]

Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Livermore Falls Advertiser

Clearing snow to take longer on some sidewalks in Jay

JAY — Snow clearing on sidewalks on a section of Route 4, which recently underwent reconstruction, will most likely be slower this winter than in the past. With about 900 feet of new guardrail and some mailboxes installed on the street-edge of new sidewalks, snow will need to be blown away, Public Works Director John […]