POLAND The Select Board voted Tuesday to accept a $100,000 grant from the Maine State Library for expansion of the A.B. Ricker Memorial Library. Town Manager Matt Garside said he is expecting to hear in the fall if the library will be awarded a $50,000 Community Action grant. The Maine Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & […]
POLAND Select Board members were shown the final design sketches for the expansion of Ricker Memorial Library at Tuesday night’s meeting. The architect in charge of the plan, Michael Giasson, said the children’s room will be expanded, allowing for separate play area as well as a reading room. Giasson said a trio of windows […]
Last year an $850,000 bond had been approved to expand the library, but it was later learned that a new heating and cooling system had to be installed throughout the building to meet code requirements.
POLAND Town Manager Matt Garside told the Select Board on Tuesday night that the Transfer Station improvement project was found to “have no significant environmental impact” by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The town was awarded a grant of $598,000 by the EPA “to improve the capability and capacity” of its waste Transfer Station […]
POLAND The Select Board learned Tuesday night that the Maine Department of Transportation will erect a four-way stop at the intersection of Harris Hill Road and Poland Corner. Town Manager Matt Garside asked DOT officials last December to look into making the heavily trafficked area a four-way stop. A study done by the DOT […]