Archive for ‘News’

  • Seeking office in Harrison

    HARRISON — Incumbent Harrison Selectmen Matt Frank and Richard St. John will face a challenge from Donald Wooley in local elections on Tuesday, June 10. A third selectmen’s seat is being sought by Richard Sykes to fill a one-year vacancy. Barbara Varricchio, who has served a year on the Planning Board, is now seeking a […]

  • CPC talks zoning with Bridgton Planning Board

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer An in-depth discussion of the need for a tactical plan to implement a town-wide land use ordinance, or zoning, dominated Monday’s joint meeting of the Bridgton Comprehensive Plan Committee and the Bridgton Planning Board. No longer should the Planning Board be constrained by vague terminology requiring only that development be […]

  • Goodine to resign, takes Bucksport job

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — When Derik Goodine first stepped into the position of Naples Town Manager, it wasn’t safe to be barefoot at the Town Beach. “When I got here, there was a sign that said, ‘Beware of broken glass.’ I asked what that meant. I was told that the town […]

  • Board crafts Town Hall funding plan

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer Bridgton Selectmen reversed themselves Tuesday by removing a warrant item that asked voters if they wanted to stabilize, sell or demolish Town Hall. The warrant item was added following comments made April 8 by Town Manager, Mitch Berkowitz, that questioned using Community Development Block Grant funds to fix the building. […]

  • Story goes national: Maine legislator saves her colleague’s life

    Walking up the steps to the Maine State House, Rep. Helen Rankin turned to her colleague Rep. Linda Sanborn. “I feel it again right now,” Rankin said. It was the pressure in Rankin’s chest, something she had mentioned during their commute from their western districts to Augusta to serve their third legislative terms in the […]

  • Solution to school radon goes to voters

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — The presence of radon in tap water is always a concern. That concern is ramped up when the hazardous gas is present in public drinking water. That has been the case with the drinking water at Songo Locks School (SLS). This has been no secret to students […]

  • Naples tries to clarify street vendor rules

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer NAPLES — A map would be a helpful visual. Residents at a Naples Board of Selectmen workshop asked to see a map of the designated areas where street vendors could lawfully operate. According to the ordinance, street vendors can only do business in the commercially-zoned and Village districts. Street […]

  • Towing policy called into question

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer With all the talk in Bridgton about buying local and keeping business local, why is a Windham-based towing company on Bridgton’s primary rotation list for accident-related towing? That’s what Lake Region Towing owner Tim Cook would like to know. Cook wrote an April 2 letter to the Bridgton Board of […]

  • Selectmen to ask voters to dip into TIF funds

    By Gail Geraghty Staff Writer The cost for the Depot Street Streetscape Project has come in, and it won’t be cheap. New pavement, drainage, sidewalks, streetlights and on-street parking changes are estimated to total $378,034, leaving a shortfall of nearly $100,000 even after all available Community Development Block Grant appropriations, including unexpended funds dating back […]

  • Casco Town Hall concept heads to voters

    By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer CASCO — The current Casco Town Office has town employees there at least 40 hours a week when really it should be a facility that only houses town documents, not people. At least, that was the original intention. “It was designed to be storage unit with garage doors,” Town […]