LIVERMORE — Residents will soon be able to take advantage of two new services relating to motor vehicles. The select board voted Monday evening to offer Rapid Renewal vehicle registrations through the Department of Motor Vehicles. The board discussed the program two weeks ago. At that time, selectperson Megan Dion said it would be a […]
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Eleonore ‘Ellie’ M. Williams
1933 – 2015 FARMINGTON — Eleonore “Ellie” M. Williams, 82, a resident of Livermore, passed away Thursday, Aug. 13, at Edgewood Rehabilitation and Living Center. She was born July 24, 1933, in Offenbach, Germany, the daughter of Konrad Loesel and Maria (Wittman) Loesel. She attended school in Germany. Ellie was a nanny in Syracuse, N.Y., […]
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Livermore tax rate to increase
LIVERMORE — The Board of Selectmen this week set the tax rate at $16 per thousand dollars of assessed property value, an increase of $1.70 from 2014-15. The new rate means a property valued at $100,000 will pay $170 more this fiscal year, which began July 1. The board was told an error occurred when […]
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Few turn out for special town meeting
LIVERMORE — Voters at Monday night’s special town meeting authorized a $250,000 tax anticipation note from Androscoggin Savings Bank and approved financing equipment to replace a backhoe. Administrative Assistant Carrie Castonguay said previously, “When we did our town meeting in June we didn’t include the financial statement on the debt service article.” The special town […]
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Two injured in Livermore crash
LIVERMORE — Two people from Canton were injured Sunday afternoon when their vehicle went off Route 108 into a rock wall, Maine State Police Trooper Nathan Jamo said. Dianne Doughty, 41, was driving a Jeep Liberty toward Canton at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday with Dale Doughty, 32, in the passenger seat. He made suicidal statements, […]
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George Henry Miller Jr., MD
1924 – 2015 LIVERMORE — Dr. George Henry Miller Jr., MD, 90, a resident of Livermore, passed away Tuesday, July 28, at his home with his family by his side. He was born on Dec. 16, 1924, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of George Henry Miller Sr. and Martha (Gordon) Miller. George attended public […]
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Washburn descendant helping to create 3-D model of Norlands homestead
LIVERMORE — Peter Washburn Kelsey’s eyes had welled up three times since he began work Monday with a team to create a photo-realistic, 3-D-accurate computer model of his ancesters’ homestead. Kelsey, a strategic projects executive for software company Autodesk, is the great-great-great-grandson of Cadwallader C. Washburn. Cadwallader was born in 1818 to Israel and Martha […]
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Shackley Hill Road rock removal requires extra time, effort
LIVERMORE — It took a large excavator, a jackhammer, at least one dump truck and 12½ hours of overtime to dig out, break up and haul off a large rock that’s been an issue on Shackley Hill Road since the early 1970s. Earlier this month, John Castonguay loaned the town road crew his excavator to […]
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Livermore, Wales have different reasons for not joining suit against county
As the smallest municipality in Androscoggin County with 1.5 percent of the population, the town of Wales believed its clout would barely create a ripple in the lawsuit dividing nearly the entire county’s municipal governments and the county commissioners. Besides, the town is focused on its own local issues, such as the Regional School Unit […]