http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ en-us Staff report 2008-08-07T00:07:24-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/031215.html 31215@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Kennebec County 2008-08-07T00:07:24-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028987.html An administrative assistant committee and special selectmen’s meeting, will be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, at the Benton Town Office in Benton. For more information, call the town office at: 453-7191. Office hours are: 9 a.m. -... 28987@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ 2008-06-16T16:25:30-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028927.html The Town of Fairfield Planning Board will hold a public hearing in the Community Center on Water Street at 7 p.m. , Monday, June 16, for the following matters: — The request of Spring Brook Ice & Fuel Co. for... 28927@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Somerset County 2008-06-15T16:23:57-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028419.html DENMARK – Residents of this Oxford County town overruled a recommendation by the board of selectmen Saturday and gave the local library all of the money it was seeking. The Denmark Public Library wanted $9,000 from the town, but the... 28419@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Oxford County 2008-06-07T21:07:30-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028416.html Residents in the new town of Chebeague Island approved a $2.7 million municipal budget and a $901,000 school budget at their second annual town meeting Saturday. Voters also re-elected Donna Damon to serve a three-year term on the five-member board... 28416@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Cumberland County 2008-06-07T19:28:50-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028415.html A measure allowing the town to accept a donation from the Sebago Historical Society and use it for the design and construction of an addition to the society’s display barn was withdrawn at Sebago’s annual town meeting Saturday. About 65... 28415@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Cumberland County 2008-06-07T19:22:53-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/028407.html Residents approved a $757,863 budget at Saturday's annual town meeting, a 3 percent reduction from last year's budget. About 63 people attended the meeting at the Leeds Central School, according to Town Clerk Jane Wheeler. Every part of the proposed... 28407@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Androscoggin County 2008-06-07T17:33:20-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/027348.html A special selectman’s meeting will be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, at the Benton Town Office in Benton. The single item on the agenda is to discuss the need for an administrative assistant for the town office (Article... 27348@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Somerset County 2008-05-20T10:50:41-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/026491.html Gray town meeting voters approved a plan Saturday to buy the former Walker's Tire garage on Turnpike Acres Road to replace the cramped and aging Village Fire Station, said Deborah Mancini, town council chairwoman. The decision to spend $260,000 on... 26491@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Cumberland County 2008-05-03T19:20:35-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/026490.html Boothbay Harbor town meeting voters approved a 2008-09 budget on Saturday for more than $7 million in municipal, school and county services. The meeting at the Boothbay Region Elementary School lasted four hours and covered 89 warrant articles, said Louis... 26490@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Lincoln County 2008-05-03T19:18:43-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/026113.html Residents at the annual town meeting turned down a proposed ordinance that would have slowed growth on the town’s west side. The intent of the growth ordinance, said selectman Joan Mooney, was to limit the number of building permits... 26113@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ York County 2008-04-26T20:11:40-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/024897.html 24897@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Kennebec County 2008-04-06T00:12:52-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/024895.html Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting approved a budget that will result in a tax rate decrease and also implements a mandatory recycling program. Town Manager Dana Lee said the town’s property tax rate should decrease by about $1.60 from... 24895@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Androscoggin County 2008-04-05T21:56:38-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/024894.html Voters elected a new selectman and eliminated funding for the Turner Center for the Arts at their annual election and town meeting. In Friday’s election, Richard Keene defeated challengers Jeffrey Timberlake and Calvin Rose Sr. for the only available selectman’s... 24894@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Androscoggin County 2008-04-05T21:55:34-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/024893.html Voters re-elected Denise LaCasse-LaFlamme to the Board of Selectmen and gave tentative approval to a school consolidation proposal that would send local students to Freeport High School. LaCasse-LaFlamme, who received 175 votes Friday in the three-way race for two openings,... 24893@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/townmeetings/ Sagadahoc County 2008-04-05T21:54:10-05:00