Archive for ‘News’

  • Town Meeting: Casco supports bus service, blueprints for dam

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — The approval of municipal funds to keep the Lakes Region Bus service operating went off without a hitch. The vast majority of voters at the Casco Town Meeting wanted to keep the rural bus service — that runs from Naples to Portland with stops in Casco, Raymond, […]

  • Discarded needles are a big problem

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer In early May, two used hypodermic needles were found on the side of Middle Ridge Road in Bridgton. Three more were found this spring in Naples, when volunteers were raking leaves and clearing debris from the American Legion ballfield (see sidebar to this story). Bridgton Interim Police Chief Jerry Hinton, […]

  • New face, same chairman for Bridgton selectmen

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen reelected Bernie King as chairman, and named newly reelected Selectman Bob McHatton vice chairman, at the board’s first meeting Tuesday. The new board includes a new face: Greg Watkins, the top vote-getter in the June 9 election. Watkins replaces Doug Taft, who ran as a write-in candidate but […]

  • Naples road reserves on chopping block

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The Town of Naples will rely on a roads reserve account to make half of the $215,000 cuts required so that the town does have to exceed the tax levy limit. There was $105,000 set aside in a reserve account in the roads and highways budget, according […]

  • Denmark voters to decide recalls this Tuesday

    DENMARK — Denmark voters will vote by secret ballot next Tuesday, June 30, on whether to recall two of the members of the Denmark Board of Selectmen. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Denmark Municipal Building to vote on the recall of Selectmen Beverly Caparco and Richard Mason Jr. […]

  • Town manager fields queries about dad’s work

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — For the second time this month, Town Manager Ephrem Paraschak explained to the public the town jobs performed by his father, Rick Paraschak. “My father is not going to get work from the town anymore. His work is wrapped up,” Paraschak said. His father’s business, Earth Solutions, […]

  • Experimental barrier to clean stormwater draped across Long Lake

    After heavy rains, we have all seen brown water run into our pristine lakes. But what if that murky stormwater could be cleaned before it got into the lake? That question is exactly what Lakes Environmental Association, Mackworth-Enviro and the University of Southern Maine are trying to answer. Last Thursday, the three groups worked together […]

  • Naples budget: Cut or push tax levy limit?

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — It seemed clear that some people in the community favored cutting the Naples municipal budget rather than setting taxes higher than the tax levy limit. One question was how to go about reducing the budget by $215,000 so that it is not necessary to tax landowners an […]

  • After contentious vote, Bridgton town meeting was quite amicable

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The June 10 Town Meeting in Bridgton, coming one day after three highly-contentious referendum questions were decided, was strikingly amicable by comparison. Nearly 100 residents zipped through the 40 warrant articles in just over an hour with little debate on any one question. Turnout for the June 9 referendum questions […]

  • Plenty of questions of how money spent at Harrison town meeting

    By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer HARRISON — As he fired up his laptop computer and opened a spreadsheet listing town financial figures, Bud Finch was asked how long this year’s town meeting would last. A year ago, voters dispensed the warrant in under an hour — closer to a half hour. Town Manager Finch […]