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PublishedAugust 19, 2012
School budgets becoming battlegrounds
OAKLAND — With proposed school budgets falling like dominoes in referendum votes, school districts across the state are learning the hard way that their budgets are facing more rigorous challenges from residents focused on keeping local property taxes as low as possible.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2012
Grass-roots meets high-tech in RSU 18 budget duel
OAKLAND — With proposed school budgets falling like dominoes in referendum votes, school districts across the state are learning the hard way that their budgets are facing more rigorous challenges from residents focused on keeping local property taxes as low as possible.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2012
Farmington voters to weigh zoning changes,energy loans
On Tuesday, the Board of Selectmen approved a warrant for a special town meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Community Center on Middle Street.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2012
RSU 18 board agrees to flat budget
CHINA — The school board of Regional School Unit 18 voted unanimously to support a flat-funded budget for the upcoming school year. A schedule of budget meetings leading up to an Oct. 2 referendum vote for the district’s five towns was also established during the board’s meeting Wednesday night at China Primary School, attended by […]
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PublishedAugust 15, 2012
Parents’ concern on RSU 18 curriculum change delays budget talks
CHINA — A debate over a change in how students in the district are educated took center stage during Wednesday night’s Regional School Unit 18 meeting.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2012
RSU 18 school board will analyze its budget — again
The Regional School Unit 18 school board will try to interpret what the rejection of the district’s school budget — for the second time — by voters means, and where to take the budget from here when it meets tonight.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2012
Man due in court on Oct. 2 on charges of making bomb threats to Wilton schools
FARMINGTON — A court date of Oct. 2 has been set for Ron Hoffman, the Rumford-based attorney who is accused of phoning in bomb threats to two Wilton schools in March.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2012
Farmington could be forced to close residential road
FARMINGTON — An eroding riverbank that threatens a secondary road in Farmington is now at the point “where we start to have serious concerns,” according to one town official.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2012
Tax-freeze issue will be on ballot in Oakland
OAKLAND — A move to freeze property taxes in Oakland got a boost when town officials verified that petitioners have gathered enough signatures to be included on November’s ballot.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2012
Quiet response to new wolf hybrid rules so far
In May 2011, wolf hybrids in the state of Maine became the subject of a planned extinction, when a new law required all the animals to be registered, micro-chipped and neutered to prevent reproduction.
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