AUBURN — City Manager Clinton Deschene said Tuesday he has a lot of work to do and a lot of phone calls to make before the budget that councilors approved Monday night is ready to go. “We have a lot of things to iron out this morning,” Deschene said. Councilors approved a 2013-14 budget that […]
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LePage vetoes budget
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage followed through on his vow to veto a compromise budget sent to to him June 13 by the Legislature. The Republican governor issued his veto letter Monday afternoon. In his veto message, LePage said the budget harms students and elderly Mainers. He also repeated his complaint that the state’s “welfare” spending cuts […]
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LePage’s budget fix illegal, attorney general says
AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage called on lawmakers Thursday to sign off on a 60-day spending fix to buy time to negotiate a new budget that doesn’t raise taxes, but state Attorney General Janet Mills called into question the legality of a temporary budget. Mills said in a letter to lawmakers that Maine’s constitution […]
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Norway selectmen call meeting to work on budget
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen have called a special town meeting for Thursday, June 27, in part to restore money to keep the Town Office open for business on a full-time basis. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Town Office on Danforth Street to act on a six-article special town […]
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Kingfield residents discuss future of town’s schools
KINGFIELD — Several residents met Thursday to discuss paying increasingly higher costs for a lower quality of education and possibly having less of a say in their children’s future. Those who gathered Thursday night shared concerns about SAD 58’s rising budget and the possibility of withdrawing from the district. Meeting organizer Mervin Wilson, also a […]
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RSU 4 proposes new school budget, smaller tax increases
WALES — A new RSU 4 budget totaling $229,000 less than the budget rejected earlier this month will go to voters in three weeks — but it doesn’t include any cuts. After more than two hours of discussion Wednesday night, school board directors rejected Superintendent Jim Hodgkin’s proposal to cut seventh-grade sports and a director of […]
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Auburn School Committee trims budget proposal
AUBURN — After Auburn voters rejected a school budget on June 11, the Auburn School Committee approved a smaller budget Wednesday night, cutting items like maintenance and rejecting the creation of new positions. The second school budget proposal is $37.67 million, a 4.9 percent increase from 2012-13. The budget defeated by voters on June 11 […]
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LePage says he wants to negotiate new budget
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced to cheers Thursday that he’s going to veto the two-year budget that contains temporary tax increase and asked for a continuing resolution to buy time to negotiate a budget without tax increases. During an Americans For Prosperity rally dubbed “Don’t Overtax ME” in the State House Hall of Flags, […]
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House lawmakers manipulate defense bill for political stunts
WASHINGTON — It was Christmas in June on the House floor last week as members of both parties decorated the fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill with gifts and trinkets of all shapes and sizes. The country faces serious economic problems at home and grim, if not dangerous, events abroad, yet some House members spent last […]
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Voters amend articles, approve $589,061 budget
CANTON — Voters approved a $589,061 municipal budget at Saturday’s annual town meeting at the Fire Station, according to Administrative Assistant Harry Childs. Originally, the Board of Selectmen had recommended $574,261 for the total municipal budget, while the Budget Committee had recommended $576,361. However, townspeople voted to amend several of the warrant articles, which raised […]