Durham News

The six-mile Chief Worumbo canoe race on the Androscoggin River starts in Durham and finishes in Lisbon.

FREEPORTA a ' Voters rejected the Regional School Unit 5 budget by a 79-vote margin Thursday, 661-582. The budget validation referendum held in Freeport, Pownal and Durham on June 25 brought out about 11 percent of registered voters from all three towns.

Voters rejected a school budget for RSU 5 that would have affected taxes differently in its three member towns.

FREEPORTA a ' Nearly 500 Freeport, Pownal and Durham residents attended the first Regional School Unit 5 town budget meeting Tuesday night and ratified a nearly $23.5 million budget that will increase Pownal's property taxes by more than 25 percent.

Hundreds of people packed the Freeport High school gym Tuesday night, pouring over the Regional School Unit No.

A barn fire in Durham, Maine, led to a power outage that affected more than 4,000 homes and businesses.

The Gardiner Farmers' Market will open for the season Wednesday. The market on Gardiner Common, Brunswick Avenue, is open from 2 to 6 p.m. and features 13 local farms.

FREEPORT a ' Some members of the Regional School Unit 5 Board of Trustees want to press the state for a timeout in the consolidation of Freeport, Pownal and Durham schools.

FREEPORT a ' Pownal residents upset by a 36 percent tax increase in the Regional School Unit 5 budget have forced a vote on repeal of school consolidation.

FREEPORT a ' Pownal residents are reportedly "outraged" by a proposed $24 million budget for Regional School Unit 5 that would increase the schools' share of their property taxes by an estimated $1,500 per household.

AUGUSTA : The Education Committee heard seven uninterrupted hours of testimony Wednesday, April 1, on the statea s school consolidation law, while considering 14 bills that would accomplish everything from minor technical changes to outright repeal.

Young women desiring to enter Bates College in September next must have their applications in the hands of the registrar on or before March 15.

"The agitation concerning the proposed electric road from Auburn to Portland, by way of Durham, Pownal, and Yarmouth, has somewhat revived of late," said an Auburn man yesterday, "and I have wondered why men of ...

It's like Auburn and Lewiston are breaking up. Word on the street is, Sabattus was asked to pass a note to Lewiston in study hall in which Auburn lamented that the relationship was just not working out.

WALDOBORO : Maine School Administrative District 40 board members voted Thursday night to hire Frank Boynton of Durham as their next superintendent, effective July 1. "The board is looking forward to working ...

For the third year in a row, the town honored its most senior resident Sunday by presenting Don Blackden with the Boston Post Cane, continuing a tradition that began in the early 1900s.

St. Matthew's Episcopal Church will present the sixth annual Chapel Chix & Chap Christmas concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec.