OTISFIELD — The Board of Selectmen agreed to accept a 4-inch stack of papers from Kristen Roy, but have told the cell tower ordinance antagonist it’s time for her to get a lawyer. “If you want to challenge the town, attorney up,” Selectman Rick Micklon said after Roy plunked the notebook filled with questions and […]
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Otisfield to host community lunch, ‘stuff swap’ OTISFIELD — Otisfield will host a community lunch and ‘stuff swap’ from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, at Community Hall on Route 121. There will be soup, sandwiches, salad and dessert. Those attending are encouraged to bring an item no larger than a bread box that they […]
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K. Roy: Amend Otisfield TIF
Otisfield stands to lose more than $30,000 a year if the proposed wireless telecommunication facility ordinance is approved. Otisfield has a tax increment financing district, which includes town-owned land off the Bolsters Mills and Hidden Lakes roads. Facilities in these industrial district sites could generate $30,000 to $40,000, per-facility, of non-tax annual revenue. Municipalities around […]
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Massachusetts resident bids $57,500 for Pleasant Lake lot
OTISFIELD — A Massachusetts woman bid $57,500 — more than twice what selectmen were asking — for a 99-year lease of a waterfront lot in Heniger Park on Pleasant Lake. Linda Cleary made the only offer for Lot 4, which the town advertised for a minimum bid of $25,000. She submitted her handwritten bid on […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m.,Town Office Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office New Sharon: Jim Ditzler Memorial Library Board of Trustees, 7 p.m., public hearing on updated Internet Safety policy Paris: Conservation Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Board of Assessors, 3 p.m., Municipal Building Salem Township: SAD 58 Board of Directors, 7 p.m., […]
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Otisfield road committee recommends more spending
OTISFIELD — The Road Study Committee has told selectmen it will recommend annual town meeting voters approve a $1.73 million bond to reconstruct five roads in town. The request is $76,000 more than announced at a public hearing last month but includes funds to top-coat Powhatan Road. In April, the Road Study Committee unveiled its […]
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Otisfield selectmen respond to Heniger Park group
OTISFIELD – Selectman Len Adler said the Heniger Park lease deal is a longtime “free ride” that is finally over. The Board of Selectmen did not mince words Wednesday night after reading a lengthy advertisement in the Sun Media Group newspapers, paid for and written by the Heniger Park Association. The association faulted the board […]
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Heniger Park tenants aren’t signing, lots up for grabs
OTISFIELD — Only eight of the 37 lessees at Heniger Park on Pleasant Lake signed new 99-year leases with the town by the Thursday, April 30, deadline, Selectmen Chairman Hal Ferguson said. The agreement gave camps owners on town-leased lots the opportunity to continue the arrangement with the town for the next 99 years at 10-year […]
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Eight sign new leases for Heniger Park in Otisfield
OTISFIELD – Only eight of the 37 lessees at Heniger Park on Pleasant Lake signed new 99-year leases with the town by Thursday’s deadline, an official said. “We’ll see where we go from here,” Board of Selectmen Chairman Hal Ferguson said Friday. The returned 99-year leases were from two whose agreements expire this year, one […]
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Otisfield Road Committee asks for $1.65M
OTISFIELD — The Road Committee has unveiled its plan to request a $1.65 million five-year bond to repair segments of Powhanton, Rayville, Bell Hill, Peaco and Gore roads over a two-year period. More than 40 people attended the committee’s nearly 2½-hour public hearing Thursday night at the Town Office Annex to hear the details of […]