WILTON — Voters will consider a $2.09 million budget at the annual town meeting Monday, June 20. It starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Academy Hill School cafeteria. Selectpersons will serve residents a barbecue supper at 5:30 p.m. Selectpersons and Finance Committee members recommend $15,000 for waste treatment plant debt and $15,000 from the Tax Increment […]
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Wilton voters elect Cushman to board
WILTON — Voters Tuesday elected Ruth Cushman to serve on the Board of Selectpersons. She received 271 votes. Irving Faunce received 196 votes, David Leavitt 154, and Betty Shibles 77. Scott Taylor chose to not seek re-election. Selectperson Tiffany Maiuri was re-elected to her seat on the board with 506 votes. Regional School […]
Master logger speaking on woodlot harvest
WILTON — The public is invited to join master logger Ron Ridley at one of his active wood harvests on Guy Chandler Road from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, June 21. Under the master logger program, loggers have to adhere to nine standards for every harvest to achieve the goals of the harvest. Attendees […]
Cause of East Dixfield home fire under investigation
WILTON — The cause of a fire that destroyed a single-family home at 221 More Acres Road in East Dixfield on Thursday afternoon remains under investigation by the State Fire Marshal’s Office. A state electrical investigator, a state fire investigator and Wilton Fire Chief Sonny Dunham were at the scene Friday morning. The home belongs […]
Crews respond to East Dixfield home fire
WILTON — A mother and two of her three children were driven from their home at 221 More Acres Road in East Dixfield village after a fire broke out around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, a neighbor said. Duane Greenleaf, who lives across the road, said he looked out and saw Ashley Rackliffe and her two younger […]
Lillian E. Noyes
1924 – 2016 PITKIN, La. — Lillian E. Noyes, 91, formerly of Wilton, died Sunday, June 5, at the home she shared with her daughter in Pitkin, La. She was born Oct. 30, 1924, in Greenwood, the daughter of Lester and Carrie Winnetta (Dunham) Cole. She received her education in Greenwood schools. In addition to […]
Wil ton schedules hearing on abandoned house
WILTON — The Board of Selectpersons on Tuesday unanimously agreed to hold a public hearing on an uninhabitable, abandoned building at 30 Webb Ave. The hearing is set for 6:30 p.m. June 28, Town Manager Rhonda Irish said. Newly hired Code Enforcement Officer Adam Cote, working with retiring Code Enforcement Officer Roger Williams, brought the […]
Wilton cheerleader receives Jamie Beth Shible Memorial Scholarship Award
FARMINGTON — The Jamie Beth Shible Memorial Scholarship Award was recently presented to Mt. Blue High School senior cheerleader Chelse Macomber of Wilton by Stephen and Julie Shible. The presentation took place in front of a flowering crab apple tree and plaque given by friends in memory of Shible. The tree was moved for the […]
Wilton, Nebraska men sentenced in Franklin County arson, burglary cases
FARMINGTON — A Mexico woman told two men Tuesday who were involved with burning her family’s camp in Carthage last year that after they have served their time in prison, they should get themselves together and lead productive lives. Andrea Casey told D’Kota Rowe, 21, of Wilton and Einer Bonilla, 22, formerly of Nebraska, to […]