ROXBURY — The Board of Selectmen is moving forward with plans to build a salt and sand shed, Selectman Tim Derouche said Thursday morning. He said A.E. Hodsdon in Waterville has been hired to design a building to hold 450 tons of salt and 3,000 cubic yards of sand. Last year, voters approved $16,400 for […]
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Roxbury voters OK money for local organizations
ROXBURY — Voters at Monday evening’s annual town meeting approved more than $6,000 for 15 of 16 requests from organizations. The request that was rejected was $369 for the River Valley Growth Council. One person asked what the council had done for the town. Selectman Tim Derouche said he couldn’t think of anything, but “the […]
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Roxbury OKs $50,000 toward sand and salt shed
ROXBURY — Residents at Monday night’s annual town meeting voted 30-12 to raise and appropriate $50,000 to build a salt and sand shed. Selectman Tim Derouche told the board the town’s shed would likely need to be replaced in the near future. He said the article asked for $200,000, which would pay for the entire […]
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Roxbury town website almost complete
ROXBURY — Treasurer Renee Hodsdon told the Board of Selectmen Tuesday evening that the town website is close to being complete. Residents voted in March to raise and appropriate $2,500 to create a town website. Currently, the town uses a Facebook page to inform residents of town business. During a meeting in August, selectmen voted […]
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Roxbury selectmen award winter road sand bid to Andover resident
ROXBURY — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Tuesday evening to award a $9,000 contract for winter road sand to Steve Swasey of Andover. Swasey, owner of Swasey Excavation, submitted the lowest bid of three submitted. The others were: Poland Corp. in West Paris with 1,000 yards of sand at $12.50 per yard; and R.A. […]
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Roxbury board schedules workshop to discuss speeding issues
ROXBURY — The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 Tuesday to schedule a workshop on Oct. 15 to discuss ways that the town can stop speeding motorists near Roxbury Pond. At the board’s Aug. 25 meeting, resident Stan Kaubris said that throughout the summer he noticed “a large number of cars and four-wheelers driving crazy and […]
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Roxbury board OKs Frye Cemetery repairs
ROXBURY — The Board of Selectmen voted 2-0 Tuesday to approve $1,360 from the town’s cemetery account to repair 19 monuments. Nina Hodgkins, Cemetery Committee member, told selectmen Tim Derouche and Rodney “Bing” Cross that she walked through Frye Cemetery with Laperle-Durland Memorials of Mexico and discovered 19 headstones had fallen off their bases and […]
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Roxbury board to revisit all but one bid for town work
ROXBURY — Selectmen opened bids Tuesday night for several projects but only voted to approve one bid. The others require the board to contact the bidders to negotiate prices to bring them in line with what town meeting voters approved for funding. Brackett’s Pumping & Portable Toilet Service of Rangeley submitted the only bid for […]
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Roxbury board addresses plowing concerns with contractor
ROXBURY — Selectmen met Tuesday afternoon with the town’s winter roads contractor to address plowing concerns. Selectman Tim Derouche said contractor Pat Gorham asked to meet with the board at 4 p.m., because he couldn’t make it to the board meeting at 6 p.m. “The meeting was to sort through some items of concern,” Derouche […]