TURNER — Representatives from two towns presented proposals to the Board of Selectmen Monday night. Buckfield Rescue Chief Lisa Bennett presented a proposal for paramedic and EMT-Intermediate coverage seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. There would be an EMT-Intermediate or a paramedic on-call between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 […]
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Oxford County Regional Recycling to implement single-stream recycling program
NORWAY — Oxford County Regional Recycling is gearing up for a single-stream recycling program at the beginning of the new year — and if the effort works, Norway and Paris residents may follow suit sometime early next year. Vern Maxfield, chairman of this year’s budget committee in Norway, said he expects the change will come, […]
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Auburn budget vote Monday night
AUBURN — Councilors are close to finishing work on next year’s budget, according to City Manager Clinton Deschene. Councilors are slated to meet Monday for a first vote on the proposed budget. A final vote would be scheduled in the next few weeks. “If councilors don’t have a finished budget by Monday night, I think […]
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Board approves warrant for Wilton town meeting
WILTON — The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday unanimously approved the warrant, including budget recommendations, for the June 16 town meeting. The warrant includes additional articles seeking residents’ input on waste disposal. With a total of $260,520 recommended by the board and Finance Committee for operation of the transfer station and recycling, the board decided […]
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Norway invited to go to single-sort recycling
NORWAY – Selectmen are expected to decide soon whether they want to continue the current system of sorting recyclable waste or go to no-sort recycling, which is being considered by the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. Selectmen recently received a letter informing them that the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. board voted April 9 to […]
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Assessment of Norway to be ‘lower than anticipated’; recycling could go ‘single-stream’
NORWAY — Town Manager David Holt announced that this year’s tax assessment on the town will be “lower than anticipated’. For Norway, about half of the cost of education is raised through property tax. “When revenues that support education are cut back … that definitely had an impact on us,” said Holt. Holt attended the […]
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Officials say recycling laws successful in keeping Maine clean
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine state officials say recycling laws are helping to keep the environment clean. The Department of Environmental Protection says it presented data Thursday showing millions of pounds of toxic materials in electronics have been kept from entering landfills and other facilities. The DEP said laws enacted in 2008 led to the reduction […]
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Livermore board hears update on plan to move to single-sort recycling
LIVERMORE — The Oxford County Recycling work group recently agreed to move the organization to a single-sort recycling program, Livermore Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said. “If all goes as planned, the new recycling program will launch this fall,” he said. “Given that the organization works on behalf of 18 towns, there are still quite a […]
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Recommendation coming on OCSWC single stream
Area town managers whose towns are members of Oxford County Regional Solid Waste Corp. will meet as a group in early February to make a recommendation for a decision by the OCRSWC on whether the organization should make the leap to single stream recycling. Currently residents sort materials themselves before depositing them at their transfer […]