POLAND — Selectmen learned Tuesday that the April town meeting article to put proceeds from timber harvesting into a conservation reserve fund to buy conservation land conflicts with action at the 1997 annual town meeting. Town Manager Bradley Plante told the board that a resident told him the 1997 vote was to use timber-harvesting money […]
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County commissioners adopt bylaws
AUBURN — Following a lengthy discussion, the Androscoggin County Commission adopted its bylaws Wednesday evening. The document, prepared by county attorney Bryan Dench, describes how the commissioners will conduct their meetings. The completed bylaws are the first step toward the commissioners hiring a county administrator. After calling a recess at the end of their business […]
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RSU 16 Committee cuts $82K from budget
POLAND — The Regional School Unit 16 School Committee on Monday approved cutting an additional $82,280 from the $20.7 million budget that voters rejected June 9. Superintendent Tina Meserve said that original plans to revamp the math curriculum in time to be implemented this September are no longer realistic, so half the amount allocated for […]
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Eugene E. Wilson
1930 – 2015 LEWISTON — Eugene Elton Wilson, 84, formerly of Auburn and Poland, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 11, with his loving family by his side. He was born in Dixfield on June 22, 1930, the son of John and Agnes Wilson. Eugene married the former Helen Stone in Farmington, on March 15, 1952. […]
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High School softball: Poland pounds Cape in prelim
POLAND — With one swing of the bat, the momentum of the game shifted Tuesday. Tess Haller’s three-run homer in the second inning suddenly closed the gap and had Cape Elizabeth within reach of Poland in their Western B preliminary game. It was the kind of wallop that might have struck fear in the hearts […]
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Poland stabbing trial starts
AUBURN — Prosecutors say a Poland man stabbed his uncle in a drunken rage after knocking over a refrigerator, then fled in his uncle’s car last summer. The defendant’s attorney says his client was acting in self-defense. The trial of Phillip Audet, 30, got underway Tuesday as opposing lawyers outlined their respective cases for a […]
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Eastern A Local players to watch: Edward Little: Sarah Hammond, Jr. P, Emmy Lashua, Fr. C, Jordyn Reynolds, Jr. 1b; Oxford Hills: Anna Winslow, Sr. 1b, Annika Kahkonen, Sr. 2b, Shannon Fillebrown, Sr., OF, Erika Whitman, Jr. P/3b, Cody Akers Jr. P/3b. Favorites: Messalonskee is the top seed and has finished strong. Teams will have to […]
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Six Questions for the CEO: Roy Forsberg, innkeeping 2.0
Roy Forsberg has been a software engineer, built Internet routers and worked at a company that provided speech recognition software for Apple’s Siri. The Massachusetts man ditched that high-tech life to be an innkeeper. He and wife, Sue, who still works in high tech, but telecommutes, bought the Wolf Cove Inn in Poland in December […]
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Poland graduates share one last Knight Time
POLAND — Knight Nation sent forth its sixteenth group of graduating emissaries on Sunday with class valedictorian Jessamyn Quint calling out to the gathered, “What time is it?!” Three times she called. And three times, each louder than the previous, the answer came: “Knight Time!” “Knight Time!!” “Knight Time!!!” Knight Nation, as Quint described it, […]