Officials will use the money to buy a new voter booth that is accessible to handicapped people, a wide-body wheelchair for voters, larger-print signs to direct the public and laptops for election officials.
Town Manager David Cyr said the hearing will give the town an opportunity to provide the latest information on these projects, their budgets, and to explain why they’re needed.
The event started 11 years ago as a fundraiser for the town’s Riverfront Committee but was handed over to the town’s farmer’s market several years ago.
The ordinance was drafted following several complaints about people camping in local parks and other public spaces.
The body of Edward Bolstridge, 68, was found at around 2 p.m. Monday in the North Maine Woods, according to Fort Fairfield Police Chief Matthew Cummings.
A summerlike day on Saturday drew more than 200 people to the Caribou Municipal Airport for the Central Aroostook Chamber of Commerce’s fourth annual beer- and wine-tasting celebration.
Hosted by the nonprofit organization Twins Riverwood, this year’s theme celebrated the period around the late 1600s and early to mid-1700s in which “buccaneers,” or pirates, sailed the Caribbean.
The incident occurred early Saturday morning at a 125 Monroe Street home.
Currently, there are 36 people missing in Maine, according to state police, including five in Aroostook County.
The IHOP franchise, owned by Great American Real Food Fast in Connecticut, is slated to move into the Big Stop restaurant location on Oct. 15, according to co-owner Andrew Ouimet.
