Franklin Jay: Special town meeting, 6 p.m., Town Office, selectmen’s meeting to follow Oxford Hills Bethel: Conservation Commission, 4:30 p.m., Town Office Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office River Valley Dixfield: RSU 10 gathering for […]
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Jay voters OK sewer plant agreement
JAY — Voters zipped through a special town meeting warrant in 10 minutes Monday night, unanimously approving a wastewater agreement, submission of a $250,000 grant application for economic development and money for legal fees. Residents authorized selectpersons to enter into a new interlocal agreement for treating wastewater for Livermore Falls and Jay. Livermore Falls sewer […]
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Jay voters to consider grant application Monday
JAY — Voters will be asked Monday, June 8, to approve a $250,000 grant application to rebuild a section of Old Jay Hill Road. The special town meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Town Office. If approved, the application will be submitted to the Northern Border Regional Commission Economic and Infrastructure Development Grant […]
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Jay board to base decision on Verso’s second tax appeal on record
JAY — The Board of Assessment Review will use submitted material and the record to make a decision on Verso Androscoggin LLC’s appeal of selectpersons’ denial of a tax abatement for the 2014 tax year. No public hearing will be held on the appeal application unless one of the parties requests it, Town Manager Shiloh […]
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Evelyn D. Durrell
1927 – 2015 FARMINGTON — Evelyn Donald Durrell, 87, of Jay, died suddenly late Tuesday evening, May 26, at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington. She was born in North Jay on July 20, 1927, a daughter of John and Georgina (Stevenson) Donald Sr. After graduating from Jay High School in 1945, she worked for Wilton […]
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Storm batters Jay, tears roof off mobile home
JAY — Apparently, it was Jay’s time. While scattered storms were reported across the region Thursday, no city or town got it quite like Jay did. Trees were blown down on power lines, pea-sized hail was reported and on Route 140 and part of a roof blew off a mobile home, leaving a family homeless. […]
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Livermore Falls teenager accused of sexually touching girl
JAY — An 18-year-old Livermore Falls man is accused of sexually touching a girl under 16 years old on a school bus, Jay police Chief Richard Caton IV said Thursday. Alan Burnell was arrested on a felony charge of unlawful sexual contact on Wednesday, he said. The victim reported the incident to a counselor earlier […]
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Jay approves 40-year lease for French Falls area
JAY — Selectpersons voted Monday, May 29 to approve a 40-year lease agreement with the Androscoggin Land Trust for the French Falls Recreation Area. The lease was approved by the trust’s board of directors last week, Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere said. The town will be responsible for maintaining about 10 acres of the property that […]
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Verso appeals Jay’s denial of 2014 tax abatement request
JAY — Verso Androscoggin filed an appeal of the town’s denial of the company’s tax-abatement request of at least $193.79 million in valuation for the 2014 property tax year for its mill and associated property. The town’s assessed value of the property for the April 1, 2014, tax year was about $593.78 million. It consists […]
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Robert J. Coulombe
1948 – 2015 AUBURN — Robert J. Coulombe, 66, a resident of Auburn, died Friday, May 22, at Hospice House of Androscoggin, following a lingering battle with cancer. He was born September 4, 1948, in Livermore Falls, the son of Jerome Coulombe and Elizabeth (Stoklas) Coulombe. Bob was a 1966 graduate of Jay High School. […]