The meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Thorndike Fire Department and voters will decide the type of building for the town’s salt and sand shed.
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Fire destroys house in Thorndike
Blaze on East Thorndike Road displaces home’s owner.
Unity-based RSU 3 transitioning to 4-day-a-week, in-person learning
Students already doing in-person learning are scheduled to increase from two to four days per week beginning March 15.
Thorndike Board of Selectmen await information before moving cannabis business forward
The three-member board wants to know the modifications and additions Nova Farms will make to the property.
With moratorium nixed, marijuana grower plans expansion into Thorndike
Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is buying Donald and Bertha Maxim’s 170-acre farm on the Gordon Hill Road.
Thorndike voters reject moratorium on pot business
In August 2020 the town opted into the state’s adult-use marijuana policy, but selectmen wanted to draft the town’s own ordinance on pot business, which called a halt to the sale of Donald Maxim’s farm to a commercial pot grower.
Oakland-, Unity-based school districts report positive COVID-19 cases
A person with James H. Bean Elementary School in Sidney tested positive, marking the district’s 10th case to date, and RSU 3 announced that close contacts of a Mount View High School person who tested positive have been notified.
Unease in Thorndike as marijuana business, resident thought their deal was done
A motion passed at the Jan. 6 Board of Selectmen meeting to hold a special town meeting on Jan. 16 to vote on a moratorium.
Thorndike-based RSU 3 postpones return to four-day, in-person learning
Superintendents of Fairfield-based Maine School Administrative District 49 and Waterville Public Schools announced additional positive cases of COVID-19.
Fairfield- and Unity-based school districts report COVID-19 infections
The cases were reported in Maine School Administrative District 49 and Regional School Unit 3.