We may comfort ourselves, when examining the $15 trillion national debt, that towns and states are required to balance their budgets each year, unlike the federal government. But wait. Even in Maine, the taxpayers can end up in trouble when a town does not plan ahead. When I first moved to Gray, I recall the […]
2012
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
AUGUSTA MATTERS – Tweak the system, not the teachers
Late in the game, the Legislative Education and Cultural Affairs Committee will be receiving four education bills from Gov. LePage’s desk. Also supported by the Commissioner of Education Stephen Bowen, these bills may be the basis of public discussion for the next weeks as they are debated and resolved. In fact, the four bills’ initial […]
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Posted inLakes Region Weekly
AUGUSTA MATTERS – Tweak the system, not the teachers
Late in the game, the Legislative Education and Cultural Affairs Committee will be receiving four education bills from Gov. LePage’s desk. Also supported by the Commissioner of Education Stephen Bowen, these bills may be the basis of public discussion for the next weeks as they are debated and resolved. In fact, the four bills’ initial […]
Posted inTimes Record
Massive search locates lost boy
DRESDEN — The worst of circumstances led to the best of outcomes Thursday when a missing 12-year-old Dresden boy was found cold and scared but alive and well after a night spent lost on the shore of the Eastern River. Micah Thomas, who disappeared Wednesday after being dropped off by a school bus near his home […]
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Brunswick warden carried Thomas to ambulance
DRESDEN — A Maine Marine Patrol warden from Brunswick carried frozen, barefoot Micah Thomas across mud flats to his boat Thursday afternoon before rushing him down the Eastern River to a waiting ambulance. Christopher Hilton of Brunswick had joined the search for 12-year-old Thomas, of Dresden, less than a halfhour before he spotted a man on […]
Posted inTimes Record
Open for season
BRUNSWICK — By noon Thursday, the parking lot at Fat Boy Drive-In was full. So were many of the Fat Boy devotees who made a pilgrimage to the Bath Road eatery to welcome spring — and Fat Boy’s return — with a Whoper Burger, BLT, frappe or fries. Diners like Beverly Wrigley came from as far […]
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Legislative contests take shape
BRUNSWICK — By the time Thursday afternoon’s deadline for filing nomination papers had passed, every legislative seat in the Mid-coast area was slated to see at least two candidates vying to represent their district in the November election. Some voters, including Republicans in Senate District 20 and Democrats in House Districts 62 and 106, will hold […]
Posted inTimes Record
Rectory razing restriction removed
BRUNSWICK — More than 50 parishioners rejoiced at the news Thursday night: The former rectory next to St. John the Baptist Church can be demolished. Church officials have sought an official go-ahead to flatten the building since October, when they made their first application for a demolition permit to the Village Review Board ( VRB), which […]
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Poliquin applies for different property tax break
GEORGETOWN — State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin has asked town officials to remove 10.3 acres of his forested property from a tax break program that he wrote has created an “unfair distraction” for Georgetown officials, his neighbors and himself. “To avoid further distractions concerning my property going forward, I have decided to withdraw my aforementioned lot from […]
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Freeport Police
Summons Justin Donald Stanhope, 21, of 5 Upper Mast Landing Road, Freeport, March 10, 10:11 p.m., charged with displaying fictitious vehicle certificates and producing evidence of insurance not in effect, on Main Street and Kendall Lane. [email protected]