Archive for ‘News’

  • Board evokes dangerous building law on Walker Street home

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen took the first step Tuesday toward declaring a vacant house at 15 Walker Street a dangerous building, subject to demolition if the problems aren’t corrected. The board voted 5–0 to start the process under state law, which requires a public hearing and final vote by the Board of […]

  • ‘Another winter, no fuel in the tank’

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — Mary Phillips said she is facing the cold-hard reality of not having home heating fuel this winter. Recently, Phillips and her husband Tom, both of whom are legally disabled, were denied heating assistance from LIHEAP program. “I have no way to heat my home,” she said, after […]

  • Revamped sewer ordinance going to voters

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton voters will decide in November whether to enact major upgrades to the town’s 1995 Sewage Ordinance designed to free up capacity for new downtown business development and pave the way for state and federal funding for a five-mile expansion to the line. Selectmen, on Tuesday, gave their stamp of […]

  • AEDs placed in Naples public spaces

      By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The majority of the time, a person does not wear their heart attack on their sleeve. Most times, the symptoms of a heart attack will go unnoticed or unheeded. A heart attack victim may take note of some symptoms, but not tell anyone. But typically, heart […]

  • Red Brick Building sale hits a snag

    By Emily Butterfield Contributing Writer FRYEBURG — It appears the town will still be unable to transfer ownership of the Red Brick Building on Main Street to the Historical Society. The sale of the building was approved by town voters back in June, but due to the confidential and fragile town documents stored in the […]

  • Naples planners approve 9,000-square foot building

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The owner of the building that houses the Umbrella Factory Supermarket and Subway fast food restaurant said there is a need for more retail space in Naples. On a regular basis, Kevin Gagnon receives phone calls people who own existing businesses and are looking into the possibility […]

  • No vote on bottled gas proposal

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer A Tuesday public hearing by the Bridgton Planning Board wasn’t followed by a vote, but it gave residents of Raspberry Lane every opportunity to voice their strong opposition to plans by Bridgton Bottled Gas to place a 30,000-gallon propane tank at the corner of their road and Route 302. Most […]

  • Town Hall named one of Maine’s most endangered historic places

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The Bridgton Town Hall on North High Street has been selected by Maine Preservation as one of 10 of Maine’s Most Endangered Historic Places of 2015. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees approved the listing at its last meeting, and the announcement was made Tuesday on WCSH-TV’s 207 […]

  • Visit to an apple orchard still a big deal

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer SWEDEN — Nancy Wood of Harrison would not miss a chance to “just get out and about” and enjoy this year’s Maine Apple Sunday. “I grew up in the middle of an apple orchard,” Wood said. Her grandfather started a farm in Connecticut; and her father earned a living […]

  • 9/11 — ‘Too unfathomable to forget’

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The American flag on the Causeway was at half-mast. So, too, were the emotions and thoughts of the people who were remembering the horrors that unfolded fourteen years ago on Sept. 11. The rain falling down and the wind coming off Long Lake did not stop them […]