Pownal News

Scarborough, ME - AspenCross Financial Group, an independent community-based financial advisory, investment management and employee benefits firm, is pleased to announce that Stephen H. Russell, a resident of Pownal, Maine has joined the firm as an Investment Advisor Representative.

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.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office says the shooting of a 19-year-old in Pownal was an apparent accident.

With the help of the state Legislature, the Select Board was able this week to reappoint longtime town official Clint Hutchins to a town auditor's post - and members wasted little time doing so.

FREEPORT a ' The School Committee unanimously approved a one-time amendment to the Pownal tuition agreement Monday night.

Locations, dates and times of the Cumberland Farmers Market Association markets: a Falmouth, Wednesdays, May 6 through Oct.

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 ' Only days after she offered the Pownal School Department a $190,000 grant to help offset a potential 36 percent tax increase, state Education Commissioner Susan Gendron on Monday night withdrew the offer.

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.

Some towns experiencing consolidation regret STEUBEN, Maine - Towns that no longer want to be part of the regional school unit they voted to join are finding themselves caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

FREEPORT a ' With the help of a little seed money, fresh produce and healthy eating education will be available to customers of the Freeport Food Pantry.A The pilot program, called "Fresh from the Pantry," was made possible by a $500 grant from Healthy Casco Bay, a group funded with tobacco settlement dollars from the Fund for a Healthy Maine.

A group of about 20 people, representing various organizations, met Wednesday to plan a very big birthday party in Pownal.

WALDO : The people who built Fort Pownal on Cape Jellison in Stockton Springs never saw a computer, but if they were around today, they would likely be impressed with the work people like Susie Martin can do with one.

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.

Devon Wilbanks, 9, recently raised $260.50 for the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough.

The Select Board approved an application this week from Ray Rodrigues, a member of the Communication and Image Committee, to use the Pownal Elementary School gym for a candidate forum.

"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 ...