City councilors on Tuesday voted 4-3 to rezone 8 Highwood St. so the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter could develop apartments for seniors and disabled people with families, and some emergency housing for homeless people, but the vote fell short of the needed supermajority.
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Pittsfield officials OK spending plans for road work, Fire Department
The Town Council on Tuesday approved a proposal to secure low-interest loans for water and sewer line work along Birchwood Terrace and Hunnewell Avenue.
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Rangeley plans hearing on $4.72 million municipal budget
Residents to vote on the proposed 2022-23 spending package on June 14.
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Kennebec County officials sign off on labor contract for staff in deeds registry, DA’s office
The deal, with the union representing about a dozen employees in the Kennebec County District Attorney’s Office and the Registry of Deeds, gives them raises in each of the contract’s three years.
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Franklin County panel to review $7.24 million budget
Of that amount, about $4.79 million is for county government and about $2.45 million is for the county jail.
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Farmington sewer budget doesn’t pass, rate can’t be set
Selectmen Scott Landry and Matthew Smith supported the proposed budget, Selectmen Joshua Bell and Byron Staples opposed it, and Selectman Stephan Bunker was absent.
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Annual Temple town meeting on Saturday highlights 3.4 percent budget increase
On the warrant are budgetary items and an election for a three-year seat on the Select Board.
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Wilton Select Board acts on proposed zoning amendments
The board sent two of four articles to the 2022 Town Meeting warrant articles that would amend Wilton’s zoning ordinance.
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Somerset County commissioners approve $13.3 million budget
The spending package approved by commissioners Monday represents a 4% increase from last year, driven in part by increased labor expenses at the county jail and also a jump in the cost of providing medical services there.
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Some Litchfield residents ask for Town Meeting vote on future of local animal shelter
The select board has yet to decide if they will provide an option on the warrant to use the Kennebec Valley Humane Society as an alternative to the town’s shelter.