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Administration structure changed; cap set on wage increases for central office staff

LIVERMORE FALLS — Regional School Unit 73 directors Tuesday voted 11-2 to contract for bus maintenance. The vote authorized the superintendents to remove from the proposed budget the sum of $150,534 for the district to maintain buses and to add $121,600 to pay for contracted maintenance services. The savings in the proposed $18.28 million budget […]

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Road panel to make road project recommendation

LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectpersons will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, at the town office to act on the recommendation of the Road Committee for the Tessier Road project. The board also plans to review the town meeting warrant that will be printed in the town report, administrative assistant Kurt Schaub […]

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Panel appoints superintendent of new consolidated school system

LIVERMORE FALLS — Regional School Unit 73 directors voted 9-4 Thursday to appoint Jay Superintendent Robert Wall as superintendent and RSU 36 Superintendent Sue Pratt as assistant superintendent of the new consolidated school district. Both have worked during the past year to move the Jay School Department and RSU 36 in Livermore and Livermore Falls […]

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Voters opt to close middle school

LIVERMORE FALLS — Voters here and in Livermore voted 346-37 Tuesday to close the Livermore Falls Middle School. The vote in Livermore Falls was 172-24 and in Livermore, it was 174-13. Regional School Unit 36 directors voted Feb. 7 to close the school due to lack of need and to put the vote before residents […]

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RSU 73 board affirms school name, mascot, colors

LIVERMORE FALLS — Jay and RSU 36 students’ choices of new names for the high and middle schools, a mascot and school colors prevailed Monday but not until each was debated. Regional School Unit 73 directors voted 11-1 on each of the students’ recommendations. Students from Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls in grades five through […]

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Two highway workers promoted

LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted Monday to have interim highway foreman Roger Ferland of Livermore stay in the position permanently, town Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said Tuesday. The board conducted interviews of two staff candidates for the vacant position in separate executive sessions, he said. Both are well qualified, Schaub said. Ron Greenwood of Livermore, a […]

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Vote on closing middle school is Tuesday

LIVERMORE FALLS — Voters here and in Livermore will consider closing the Livermore Falls Middle School on Tuesday, May 10, at the polls. Polls in Livermore Falls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the town office and in Livermore from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the town office. RSU 36 […]

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Deadline looms for filing nomination papers

JAY – The deadline to return nomination papers for election to town offices in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls nears. In Jay, no one has returned papers for two, three-year terms on the Board of Selectmen. Those seats are currently held by Tom Goding and Tim DeMillo. Both have taken out papers, which are due […]

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Board posts highway foreman position internally

LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted Monday to advertise a vacant highway foreman position to current staff to see if anyone is interested, town administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Tuesday. The position was left vacant after the select board fired former foreman Don St. Laurent of Canton on April 14. The board plans to interview candidates, if […]