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Missing road commissioner the talk of town meeting
Road commissioner Randy Baker did not appear at the annual town meeting March 26. For residents who came hoping to get answers to questions and complaints, this was a problem — or just the latest...
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Waldo voters balk at some agency requests, agree to others
The annual Waldo Town Meeting began promptly at 9 a.m. Voters chose Walt Whitcomb as moderator. After hearing reports from town officers for municipal year 2015 and determining highway wages for the...
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Belfast police blotter
Law enforcement officials with Belfast Police Department reported the following recent activity: March 28 Cynthia Field, 48, of Belfast, arrested on a warrant for unpaid fine. Nicholas M. Hegstrom,...
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Waldo Tech students garner gold medal with food cupboard project
Several Waldo County Technical Center students won medals at this year's SkillsUSA Maine championships, with one team taking home a coveted gold. This year marked the 50th anniversary of the SkillsUSA...
View ArticleBurnham to borrow money to pave roads
About 60 residents elected officers and passed the town warrant at the Burnham Town Meeting March 18. Incumbents were elected to positions of selectman, treasurer, highway commissioner, and to an...
View ArticleWaldo County Unified Court closed cases
The following cases were closed in Waldo County Criminal Courts between March 18 and March 24: Waldo County Superior Court: Addison Duong, 22, of Waterville, arson, eight months in Waldo County Jail,...
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Carpenters ferment plans for Searsmont brewery
Searsmont will soon be home to a new brewery after Planning Board members approved an application for the business at their March 29 meeting. The business, Threshers Brewing Co., is owned by Ethan...
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WCAP to take over Coastal Trans service area April 23
Waldo Community Action Partners has agreed to assume public transportation services in the areas of MDOT Region 5 currently being served by Coastal Transportation Inc. Region 5 consists of Knox,...
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Waldo County Sheriff's blotter
Law enforcement officials with Waldo County Sheriff's Office reported the following recent activity: March 28 Deputy Darrin Moody responded to a single-vehicle crash at 4:33 a.m. on Harriman Road in...
View ArticleProbation check lands two in jail for manufacturing meth
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested two Northport residents for manufacturing methamphetamine the afternoon of March 30. James Scheider, 39, was arrested and charged with aggravated trafficking in...
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Car attempting U-turn totaled in collision with oil truck
At about 7 p.m. March 31, a call came in to Waldo County Regional Communications Center about a car-oil truck collision on Route 1A at the Prospect and Stockton Springs line. Royce Grindle, 58, of...
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Brooks woman suffers serious injuries in single-vehicle wreck
A Brooks woman suffered serous injuries when her vehicle crashed into trees in Richmond the evening of March 31. Trooper Greg Stevens said 49-year-old Terri Sebring over-corrected after she nearly...
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Montville couple indicted in latest test of Maine's medical marijuana law
The state is pursuing criminal charges against a Montville couple accused of growing marijuana on their property. The defense says it's a case of medical marijuana patients caught on the wrong side of...
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City officials leaning toward new trash disposal, recycling facility
Should the city join other municipalities in sending its trash to a state-of-the-art solid waste processing and recycling plant that uses technology new to the United States, or consider other options...
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City officials lean toward new trash disposal, recycling facility
Should the city join other municipalities in sending its trash to a state-of-the-art solid waste processing and recycling plant that uses technology new to the United States, or consider other options...
View ArticleWaldo County Registry of Deeds
The following deed transfers were recorded at Waldo County Registry of Deeds between March 25 and March 31: Belfast: Carissa A. Carter to Sharon R. Carter and Merle T. Carter Alison Walsh and Alison...
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McDonald closes Belfast Bicycles, passes baton to Rockland shop
For more than a decade Mike McDonald has been riding other people's bikes, in loops around the parking lot at City Hall, up the alley behind Key Bank and back and forth along the sidewalk on High...
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Proposed biomass plant fuels heated discussion at town meeting
A proposed biomass plant at Robbins Lumber Inc. elicited numerous questions and comments from voters at the annual town meeting, but the project was overwhelmingly supported by the more than 100...
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Prospect picks tried and true over new, untested
Residents at the annual town meeting April 2 didn't want to hear about a new trash facility proposed for construction in Hampden. They didn't like it. Under a proposal being considered by a number of...
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Homeless vet's dreams of self-sufficiency fulfilled with friends
To his Massachusetts acquaintances, Craig Robitaille was crazy. Blowing his disability back-pay check on swampy, wooded land in Swanville, Maine, to become a subsistence farmer, when he could have put...
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