DURHAM — Residents at town meeting Saturday adopted a municipal budget of $2.19 million. Selectmen had proposed spending $2.17 million, but voters instead went with a higher Budget Committee recommendation to spend $776,095 for roads instead of the $744,670 selectmen had proposed. Following a presentation by fire Chief Bill St. Michel on the purchase of […]
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LePage allows 2014 supplemental budget to pass into law without signature
AUGUSTA — The political battle over how to best fill about a $40 million shortfall in the state’s 2014 fiscal budget came to an unceremonious end early Thursday when Republican Gov. Paul LePage allowed a bill filling the gap to pass into law without his signature. LePage had opposed many of the proposed fixes to […]
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UMaine faculty avoids layoffs, saddened by budget cuts
BANGOR — When Richard Blanke joined the history department at the University of Maine in 1969, he was one of eight European history professors, he said. After he retires at the end of this semester, he will be leaving the history program with less than half that number. “This is very sad,” Blanke said. “I […]
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Hearing set on New Gloucester budget
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Budget Committee will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, at the New Gloucester Meeting House in Lower Gloucester. The 12-member panel recommends a $2.85 million spending plan for 2014-15, while selectmen recommend $2.86 million. The difference between them is $6,250. The overall increase from this year is […]
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Special ed spending key part of Lewiston School’s budget
LEWISTON — A $296,000 budget increase in special education spending may not pay off for city schools immediately, but it will save money in the long run. Lewiston Superintendent Bill Webster told City Councilors that the school department does not have the programming or the space to take care of every special education student the […]
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Auburn school officials ask for public input on budget
AUBURN — A public hearing on the 2014-15 school budget will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday by the School Committee. The $39.04 million proposal is 5 percent more than the current budget and would increase property taxes $118 for a home valued at $150,000. The major reasons for the increase are flat funding from […]
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Phillips loses plow truck to fire
PHILLIPS — A fast-moving fire reduced the town’s 2010 International plow truck to charred rubble Wednesday. The driver was not injured. Public Works employee Matt Stevens was plowing the remote East Madrid Road when he saw the flames shooting from the hood of the double-axle wheeler, Town Manager Elaine Hubbard said. Stevens, also an experienced […]
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UMaine to cut 61 positions, dip into savings to address $9.7 million shortfall
ORONO — The University of Maine will eliminate 61 positions and use $5.3 million of its savings to account for a $9.7 million shortfall in next year’s budget, university officials announced Friday. The cost reduction plan on the Orono campus calls for eliminating 30 faculty positions — all of which are either currently vacant or […]
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RSU 73 board adopts $18.6 million proposed budget
LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board Thursday approved the warrant for the district-wide budget vote, adult education costs and whether to keep open a portion of the former Livermore Falls High School. They also approved the warrant for a referendum to be held in each member town on the budget figure acted on during […]
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Dixfield budget vote planned; annual town meeting a month early
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will attempt to schedule the town budget referendum June 10, the same day as the state primary election, Chairman Mac Gill said. At the March 17 board meeting, it was decided to have the budget vote at the polls instead of by a show of hands at the town […]