AUGUSTA — City taxpayers would be looking at a 2 percent property tax increase under the intitial city and school budget proposals.
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Gardiner official stepping down
GARDINER — Jason Simcock, the city of Gardiner’s planning and development director, is stepping down after six years.
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Taxation panel rejects LePage’s proposal
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Taxation Committee has unanimously rejected Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to change the way cities and towns receive state money, the committee’s Senate chair said Monday.
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New legislation may affect plan for crematorium
GARDINER — City councilors on Wednesday will review new legislation to let the Oak Grove Cemetery Association build a controversial crematorium.
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Comment about accident victim could have been cut
I read in the Kennebec Journal about the young man who died in a rollover in Winthrop. Isn’t it bad enough for the family to grieve for their loved one, let alone you having to put at the end of report that he happened to be one of the three Gardiner Area High School seniors […]
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More important news than stories about mural
There are definitely more important things to report on, or at least put on the front page, than to run several days about a mural.
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‘Kennebec Journal should be ashamed of itself’
A young man was killed in a tragic accident on my road Monday night. After reading today’s “Augusta man dies in rollover” article in your newspaper, I went from sad to furious. I can’t understand why the newspaper felt the need to mention his criminal record from his teen years. It is totally irrelevant to […]
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Police log, April 4
Fire destroys Moscow sugar shack MOSCOW — As firefighters responded to a report of a fire Friday night, they could see the glow of the flames about a mile away. About eight firefighters responded to the fire around 10:30 p.m. that destroyed a sugar shack owned by Frank Hunnewell, said Bingham Fire Department Chief Scott […]