About 40 firefighters from several towns responded to a fire at 15 Cedar Ridge Drive, only a couple of hundred feet from Cedar Ridge Center, a nursing and rehabilitation facility.
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Construction set for $8.25 million Skowhegan public safety building
The decision to move ahead with Westbrook-based Benchmark Construction comes after voters in 2020 passed a bond to have a combined fire and police station built on East Madison Road in Skowhegan.
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Skowhegan officials looking for ways to lower construction costs for new public safety building
The problem facing the town is that voters earlier approved about $9 million for the project but bids on the work far exceeded that amount.
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Fewer candidates, and less qualified ones, lead to staffing woes for central Maine fire stations
The fire chief in Skowhegan, Shawn Howard, says he has 15 openings for firefighters, and he’s not confident he can fill them all anytime soon.
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Skowhegan considers how to spend $870,000 in federal relief aid
Municipal department heads made their pitches this week for how the money should be used, with Chief of Police David Bucknam requesting $10,000 bonuses for his officers.
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Former Skowhegan Fire Chief Winton Thomas Keene Jr. memorialized at service
Keene, who served as fire chief from 1992 to 2001 and again from 2008-2014, died Nov. 23 last year with COVID-19.
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Fire destroys outbuilding on Bigelow Hill Road in Skowhegan
Firefighters from three departments responded to the fire at 440 Bigelow Hill Road which Skowhegan fire Chief Shawn Howard deemed accidental.
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Fire destroys large commercial garage in Athens, drawing 12 fire departments
Firefighters were able to save two nearby buildings and a lot of equipment Saturday at Linkletter & Sons Inc. at 115 Harmony Road, but a 60-by-100-foot large commercial garage was destroyed.
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Skowhegan making progress in planning for new public safety building
Community officials have sat down with architects and engineers to figure out floor spaces and how to fulfill the needs of the fire and police departments.
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Skowhegan officials say shoe glue may be to blame in New Balance chemical incident
Skowhegan Fire Chief Shawn Howard and New Balance planned additional investigation Monday morning.