Even though people have been living in a condemned Presque Isle home on Elm Street without power or water since last year, city officials said they are limited in what they can do because of the state’s current ban on evictions.
Concerned about unanswered questions on the coming year’s municipal budget, including the whereabouts of unused funds, a group of citizens wants responses from the Fort Fairfield Town Council.
Since he was 5, Michael Chasse spent early winter mornings on the sun-dappled Mars Hill Mountain, helping his dad ready the ski patrol hut and get the old cast-iron barrel stove burning red hot at BigRock.
The Fort Fairfield municipal budget has been at the core of discontent between the town and its residents for most of this year, after property taxes rose in 2020 by nearly 28 percent for some.
An Ashland man was charged with multiple motor vehicle violations on Saturday night, after crashing the pickup truck he was driving into another vehicle and leaving the scene of the crash, police said.
The Caribou City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday, April 20, to table a discussion regarding the expansion of the Facade Improvement Grant Program to include a fall award until questions about compliance and program cost can be answered.
Milt Smith loved to fly. Like the most agile of birds, he’d soar near the clouds, taking in the long-distance view of the community he loved and served. Sometimes in his single-engine fixed-wing plane and sometimes in the Hopper, the one-man balloon he built, Milt Smith could momentarily step back from his busy world to look and listen before he was back on the ground, running.
The Fort Fairfield Town Council approved, in a 3-to-1 vote, a 1 percent salary increase for all nine public works employees, following an executive session to discuss the matter last week.
An Eddington woman was charged with illegal transportation of alcohol and possession of drug paraphernalia on Sunday afternoon, after crashing the vehicle she was driving along Route 11 just north of Ashland.
There’s a rolling boil under Fort Fairfield’s surface these days, with local residents expressing serious concerns about the town’s management and spending.
