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School Cuts
Friday, November 22 will likely be reviled for months to come as school systems across the state adjust to a statewide $27 million cut in spending between now and June 30, 2009.
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Browse Nov 20, 2008
PUC rules in favor of water district Maines Public Utilities Commission has ruled in favor of the Wiscasset Water District in a complaint filed by Wiscasset resident Bill Phinney.
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Alna Considers Option
Home-owning senior citizens in Alna may one day have an opportunity to work off part of their property taxes.
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State Cuts Squeezing Schools
Governor John Baldacci's request for an across-the-board 10 percent cut in statewide spending means the Wiscasset School Committee may have to come back to local voters for more money.
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Voters Get Chance
What happens if Maines school consolidation law is overturned? Thats the question many school officials are asking.
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Browse Nov 06, 2008
State races close, Wiscasset turns down $14 million expenditure Wiscasset voting Tuesday reflected the high statewide and national trends as over 2,100 went to the polls.
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Working On National
Fellow Alna residents who see Doug Baston out jogging, or serving on the towns planning board, might not realize they are looking at a man who, decades ago, helped start the nations energy conservation ...
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State Dems Find Tough Going At Ethics Commission Hearing
The Maine Democratic Party had a tough go of it at a state ethics commission hearing Oct.
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CTL Offers Alternative
There are no hallways at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb. Students step out of one room and right into the next, unlike a typical public school layout.
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If Not This
More than ever, it appears that if Wiscasset and seven other towns reject consolidation November 4, that wont get any of them off the hook to join an RSU That was the word Saturday from Superintendent of ...
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Browse Oct 30, 2008
Tax maps on website raises privacy concerns Westport Island will soon offer to its residents, taxpayers, and businesses digital data of the towns tax maps, property tax assessment data, which includes the map ...
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Public Hearing Turnout
If it hadnt been for members of Wiscassets Budget Committee, last Thursday nights public hearing might have lasted only a few minutes.
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Tour de Farms
The companionship of wonderful people was matched only by the brilliance of the vistas on the route for the Tour de Farms bike ride this year.
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Browse Oct 02, 2008
Interest growing in Wiscasset as site for energy generation The president of Natural Currents will be in Wiscasset Tuesday night to meet with the Board of Selectmen, Town Manager Arthur Faucher announced this ...
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Famous Alna Poet
Nationally acclaimed poet David Clifton Walker never severed his Alna roots. He wrote about them, remained at least a part-time resident throughout life, and on Sunday was remembered at a service just down ...
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Attention, Maine Locavores: Apples and Pears are Ripe for the EatingC
Macouns are yummy in apple crisp and soups. Apples and Pears are ripe and delicious.
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Browse Sep 25, 2008
Wiscasset votes to transfer money; mill rate to be 13.6 Wiscasset townspeople voted in favor of using $600,000 from the towns surplus account to reduce taxes in a 21 to 6 vote at a Special Town meeting Tuesday ...
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DOT Open to Rt. 27 Full Interchange Plan
Discussion opened up last Thursday to the prospect of a full interchange on Rt. 27 in Wiscasset for the proposed Rt.
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A Peek at Solar Power for Whitefield School
The Whitefield School Committee heard a timely proposal at its regular meeting Tuesday: save fossil fuel costs by installing a solar energy system to heat hot water, for free.
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Wiscasset Board Pushes RSU Plan Forward
State Education Commissioner Susan Gendron has returned the Regional School Unit plan for Wiscasset schools to the potential RSU towns for changes; changes the Wiscasset school board wants to speed along to get ...
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