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PublishedSeptember 26, 2022
Appleton ponders path to fireproof paperwork storage
Just weeks after a committee recommended funding a fireproof place for critical town records, it seems an old safe where they are stored might violate state records storage laws — and it is in the fire department basement.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2022
Appleton property valuations up, taxes down
Costs of government and schools are up, so is the county tax, but with robust reserves and state help, Appleton’s mill rate is down more than five percent.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2022
O’Connor shares on writing, illustrating children’s books
The Appleton Library offers this free talk by Catherine Gorski O’Connor Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6:30 p.m.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2022
Very slippery soap aids old barn’s slide to safety
When Appleton’s Angie and Jim McKenna needed someone really skilled to lift and move their massive red barn to save it from collapse, the “magician” they hired brought a secret ingredient for such Herculean hoists: Lots of bars of Ivory soap.
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PublishedSeptember 9, 2022
Cemetery ash storage plan up in smoke for now, Appleton Select Board awaits cost details
A plan on how to spend a big influx of federal money hit a snag when Peter Beckett questioned the cost of its most pricey element, a town niche wall for cremation remains. He later called it “mind boggling” that colleagues would consider a project absent solid numbers.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2022
Plan to store, scatter cremation ashes at cemetery expected to live or die at Appleton board meeting
Appleton’s down to space for only several dozen more graves at the town cemetery, so a new plan proposes installation of what could be hundreds of small lockers to store funerary ashes beside a small garden where loved ones who prefer it can scatter the ashes of the deceased.
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PublishedJune 24, 2022
Author speaks on women in the commercial fishing industry
Author Ali Farrell. will discuss her book, “Pretty Rugged; True Stories from Women of the Sea,” at the Appleton Library, June 28.
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PublishedJune 22, 2022
‘Pretty Rugged’ author speaks in Appleton
On June 28, Ali Farrell shares her book on women in the fishing industry, and other projects.
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PublishedJune 15, 2022
Appleton voters re-elect Beckett
Appleton saw a record turnout for annual town meeting, with 404 voters. A majority supported continuing town meeting by secret ballot referendum and favored budgets for the CSD and Appleton Village School.
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PublishedMay 26, 2022
Camden area town meeting schedule, election poll times
A list of local times and places for election voting and June town meetings.
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