Buckfield News

At the second of three public hearings on a proposed RSU 10 2012-13 budget Wednesday night, attendees learned that more than 50 positions will have been eliminated since the former SADs 21, 39 and 43 merged three years ago if the $35 million budget is passed.

Voters at the annual town meeting will decide whether to approve the expenditure of $458,000 for roadwork on four town roads.

A year after resigning his post as Poland's town manager, Dana Lee is officially back in the saddle as a municipal administrator.

The town has received three contract inquiries for repaving of Allen Road, as well as a handful of bids to replace a 6-foot culvert on the road, which Selectman Jim Reid says is in "pretty bad shape." Pike Industries, Lane Construction and RC & Sons Paving, Inc., will submit bids this week to grind and pave a 2-inch base of Allen Road from the ... (more)

"As a kid, I remember our hamburgers being grey and flat with something smeared on it in a bun sitting in a steamer," recalls Richard Colpitts, superintendent of the Oxford Hills School District.