The Board of Selectmen has invited the Planning Board and organizers of the Great North Music Festival to a discussion Wednesday about how the ordinance worked during last year’s three-day festival.
Rachel Ohm
Staff Writer
Rachel covers state government and politics for the Portland Press Herald. It’s her third beat at the paper after stints covering City Hall and education. Prior to her arrival at the Press Herald in the summer of 2019, Rachel worked at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, covering Franklin and Somerset counties, and the Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tennessee, covering higher education. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and when she’s not writing and reporting enjoys running, cooking and traveling to new places.
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Skowhegan students blaze new trail along damaged brook
The trail will help to better preserve the pond for trout and stabilize the steep bank around a pond in the Whitten Brook Conservation Area.
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Solar panels help add jobs, cut costs at Bingham’s North Country Rivers
More than 140 solar panels were installed at the whitewater rafting resort last week and are expected to help generate about 50 percent of the business’s energy needs.
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Athens school to explore teacher-led model instead of having principal
The pre-K through grade eight school will become the second school in the state to replace the traditional head of the school with a teacher leadership team.
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Cause of fire that gutted Burnham home under investigation
The sole resident of the house at 94 Rancourt Lane, near Unity Pond, was out of state when the fire broke out Thursday morning.
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Skowhegan man awaits sentencing in manslaughter case
Mark Bussell, of Skowhegan, plead guilty to manslaughter in the death of James Murphy, of Starks, in a November 2013 accident in Fairfield.
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SAD 74 residents approve $9.4 million school budget
The budget passed by an overall vote of 104-57, though it was rejected by the town of Embden, where a movement is underway to explore withdrawing from the district.
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LePage’s tax plan draws criticism, support in Skowhegan
The governor pitched his $300 million tax relief plan, which includes proposals to reduce income tax and raise sales tax, to residents in Somerset County Monday night.
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Wilton man charged with grandmother’s murder to be evaluated
The home that Dana Craney shared with Joanne Goudreau before allegedly killing her with a hammer in December has been destroyed in a controlled burn.
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High court decision gives Starks cellphone tower ‘green light’
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court said no legal ground for appeal existed, allowing construction of the tower in Starks that neighbors have resisted and appealed numerous times.