Alna selectmen plan to ask voters to tap surplus to further fund this snowplowing season. With attendees’ input, selectmen Nov. 22 favored low bidder Mike Jewett of Whitefield and planned a town vote because the contract costs more than the one.
Alna did not go looking for trouble or for something to do, First Selectman Ed Pentaleri said Nov. 16 about winter plowing. He had been fielding residents’ questions and comments about the town’s loss of its plowing contractor, Holbrook Excavating,.
Les Fossel sees Jon Luoma’s new watercolor aerial scene of Alna Meetinghouse as iconic to the town, just like the meetinghouse is, Fossel said. “So the people of Alna should be able to see it,” he told Wiscasset Newspaper April 24. And so Fossel and.
Six years after Alna moved from Wiscasset Ambulance Service to Central Lincoln County (CLC) Ambulance, voters will decide anew. At the annual town meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 26 at the fire station, residents face CLC’s $36,371 a year request.
Alna selectmen, other residents and the town’s plowing contractor talked again Feb. 16 about service this winter. Ralph Hilton said Route 218 wasn’t plowed in a recent snowstorm. Holbrook Excavation owner Evan Holbrook blamed an equipment breakdown.