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Houlton slashes $1.8M from proposed 2025 budget
HOULTON, Maine — The Houlton town council on Thursday night cut $1.8 million from the proposed 2025 town budget. In November Town Manager Jeremy Smith presented a $16,568,181 draft budget that would have raised the town mill rate nearly 5.5 mills. Several councilors expressed concern about such a dramatic increase.
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Ark Animal Sanctuary – Week of December 18, 2024
As the Christmas season begins, we find ourselves in a last-ditch effort to raise money for the animals in our care. Running a sanctuary that is currently home to 86 cats is not easy when you have no guaranteed income. I don’t think people even think about the hidden expenses. For example, our insurance for the sanctuary for this year was $3,500. Fuel to get us through the winter will be around $3,000, electric and sewer around $1,200. The dumpster we rent to dispose of trash is $185 per month, internet and phone $90 a month.
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Houlton area From our Files – Week of December 18, 2024
2500 View New Caribou Fried Potato Freeze Plant — More than 2,500 residents of Caribou and surrounding communities, as well as state, county and local officials and many potato growers and dealers, went through the new quick-frozen French fried potato plant of the Birds Eye-Snider Division of General Foods Corporation here today during an “open house” officially launching the plant. The plant will employ about 150 persons for the major part of each year and is equipped with up-to-date machinery and lighting. On hand to greet the visitors, including hundreds of children, were Franklin G. Delaney, plant manager, Joseph D. Nevins, assistant manager, and other members of the staff. Employees at work readily answered questions and explained the steps in processing.
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Suzie the bear, a long-time fixture at Maine Wildlife Park, dies
GRAY, Maine (WGME) -- After nearly three decades at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, Suzie the bear has died. Caretakers say she came to the park in 1995 after not being able to survive in the wild. The park says Suzie wasn't big for a black bear but always...
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Structure Fire Thursday Evening in Westmanland
WESTMANLAND, Maine (WAGM) - On Thursday evening just before 6 PM, North Lakes Fire and Rescue responded to a structure fire at 835 Little Madawaska Lake Road in Westmanland. Officials responded to the property with 22 firefighters, one engine, four tankers, and three support vehicles. When they arrived, two neighbors had slowed the progress of the fire using fire extinguishers which confined the damage to a few rooms in the apartment above the garage.