Livermore Falls News

Hundreds of flags are expected to line Veterans Hill on Park Street from May 24 to May 30.

JAY/LIVERMORE FALLS - One has dual citizenship, another worked her way up, one young man has deep roots in the area and the fourth chose to finish her high school career at Spruce Mountain High School.

Joe and Donna Arsenault found all of these religious themed charms in one summer at one small beach area.

The bipartisan group of 11 lawmakers who crafted a bill to overhaul Maine's tax code earned praise for their collaboration Friday, but representatives from a number of industries came out against their tax reform plan while municipal officials came out in support.

The Legislature's Taxation Committee is taking comments from the public and groups affected by the proposal at a hearing Friday in Augusta.

People are asked to pick up their trash and their dogs' feces if they walk them along the Foundry Road Path or on the town's Recreation Field.

The town manager received a call Tuesday from a representative of Verso Paper Corp.

An aggressive, bipartisan proposal to cut Maine's income tax rate, increase the sales tax and eliminate nearly all sales tax exemptions was formally unveiled at a Wednesday news conference at the State House.

A bipartisan group of legislators plan to unveil a tax reform package Wednesday they hope will stabilize revenues for the state while providing relief to income and property taxpayers.

A Livermore Falls man has been sentenced to four months in jail for breaking into a pair of Maine ski mountains.

A Jay man was charged Sunday after police say his car hit a small loader in a parking lot off Church Street and pushed it into a pickup truck parked next to it, and then he left the scene.

Over the weekend, firefighters and the Maine Forest Service were called to a fire in Livermore Falls where the property owner told forest rangers he set a test fire to check how things would burn.

A 72-year-old man was charged Saturday afternoon with burning without a permit when he inadvertently started a wildfire, a Maine Forest Service ranger said in a news report.

A Livermore Falls man was sentenced Friday to four years, all but 120 days suspended, and two years probation for breaking into the lodge of Titcomb Mountain Ski Area in Farmington in March 2012 and a garage in November at Spruce Mountain Ski Slope in Jay.

Two men were injured Thursday morning when one man stopped his car to talk to a Water District employee repairing Route 4 in North Jay and a small truck rear-ended the car, which was pushed off the road and struck trees.

When voters head to the polls in June, they will be asked if they favor the removal of the town from Androscoggin County and its annexation to Franklin County.

One of the ordinances residents will be asked to consider in June addresses property maintenance from the exterior to interior of buildings including requiring habitable rooms to have insect screens on doors, window and other outside openings.

No one has returned nomination papers for three of four seats up for election in RSU 73 that serves Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls.

Courtney Allen, 20, of Augusta, assault Jan. 22 and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Feb.