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The following message was provided by Town Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick on Monday, Feb. 1:
Unfortunately there is a technical issue with the posting of tonight’s Town Council meeting, the meeting must be cancelled.
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CANTON It won’t be the gala dinner and dance they had planned, but residents will still celebrate the town’s bicentennial with a parade Feb. 5, exactly 200 years after its incorporation.
Selectmen authorized the Bicentennial Committee’s “plan C” on Thursday.
Committee members Phyllis Ouellette, Anne Chamberlin and Loretta Blancato spoke to selectmen Thursday via Zoom to request the original dinner-dance be postponed and a parade held Friday, Feb. 5.
“We went from plan A to plan B and now we’re on plan C,” Ouellette said, because of the coronavirus pandemic that struck the country last year.
“We’re postponing (the gala) to May 1, which we’re hoping, fingers crossed, that’ll work,” she said.
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July
Western Maine trails received $87,000 in grants with $30,000 granted to The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust to improve wayfaring in the trust’s 36 miles of trails. Trailhead signs and trail markers will be improved and an in-town trail between Rangeley’s Lakeside Park and the Rangeley Public Library will be constructed.
“Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has conserved more than 14,000 acres in the region for public access and the wayfinding system will be critical to keeping access safe and educational,” David Miller, executive director of The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, said.
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s office released a report the first week of July that included several first-hand accounts of the Sept. 16, 2019, LEAP Inc. building explosion in Farmington. Accounts from firefighters confirmed that there was no smell of propane outside or inside of the building. While no propane was detected around the tank, the measurement readings in the basement w
Boston Cane goes to soon-to-be centenarian
LaVerne Redlon poses with her Boston Cane presented to her on Dec. 22.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SWH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
SOUTHWEST HARBOR LaVerne Redlon is set to turn 100 this month and the town has presented her with the Boston Post Cane as an early present.
Board of Selectmen Chairman Kristin Hutchins presented Redlon with the cane on Dec. 22 at her home just off Main Street where she lives with her daughter, Jeanne Boyd.
In 1909, over 700 Boston Post Canes were given to New England towns as a publicity stunt by the Boston Post Newspaper. At that time, only men were presented with the canes because they were the only ones considered citizens. Even though women were given the right to vote in 1920, Southwest Harbor did not present the cane to a woman until 1958. Redlon joins at least 10 other centenarians on the list of recipients for the town, the most recent of whom was Mary Orcutt Harkins.
January
Three teams from Spruce Mountain Middle School were recognized for their accomplishments at the Maine FIRST LEGO League Championship held in December at the Augusta Civic Center. Members of ‘Just the Incredible 6’ won the Global Innovation Award and finished 10th in the robotic performance portion of the competition. The team Silent Bot Deadly took 11th out of the 28 teams in the robotic performance while Space Savers, a team of sixth graders were recognized with the Core Values Gracious Professionalism Award.
More than three months after the explosion at the LEAP Inc. central office building in Farmington, Larry Lord’s condition was upgraded to fair. Lord received burns over more than half of his body in the explosion at the LEAP building where he was maintenance supervisor. He is credited with saving the lives of several LEAP co-workers after he got them out of the building moments before the explosion at Farmington Falls Road.