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PublishedFebruary 14, 2012
CRC seeks return to court docket in methadone project
CRC, the company that wants to open a methadone clinic in Warren, decided to continue a federal lawsuit against the town of Warren after it came up against the court deadline for finalizing a tentative settlement with the town. CRC filed a motion to return the case to the active court docket on Feb. 13. “This Court previously allowed the parties until Feb. 13, 2012 to file a stipulation of dismissal on the ...
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2012
Traffic questions, sewer study hold up methadone project
Despite all the talk about CRC Health Group's methadone clinic proposal being fast-tracked through the permitting process in Warren, the planning board again postponed final review Feb. 9. CRC Health Group has proposed placing the clinic in a building owned by Robert Emery at the corner of Route 1 and Short Street in Warren, across from Maritime Farms. Neighbors and other town citizens have come out to several ...
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2011
Waldoboro voters approve moratorium on methadone clinics, marijuana dispensaries
Waldoboro residents at a special town meeting Jan. 11 voted to enact a six-month moratorium for methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries. The moratoriums will temporarily prohibit methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries from opening in Waldoboro and give the town time to review, and possibly amend, land use ordinances to regulate those businesses. “This moratorium is an ordinance that would temporaril...
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2011
Waldoboro to consider ordinances for methadone clinics, marijuana dispensaries
The Waldoboro Planning Board will hold an ordinance review discussion on methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries the day after residents vote at a special town meeting on a moratorium for those operations. The Waldoboro Planning Board will meet Wednesday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. at the town office to review the town’s ordinances as they apply to methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries. A special town ...
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PublishedDecember 10, 2010
Warren to vote Monday on methadone moratorium
Warren residents will gather Monday night, Dec. 13 to vote on a town meeting warrant article that could block methadone clinics opening in the community for at least the next six months. The special town meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Warren Community School gym. The town meeting was called after residents gathered signatures demanding such a moratorium vote. The six-month moratorium on all medical or ...
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PublishedDecember 8, 2010
Rockland postpones action on methadone clinic
The Rockland Planning Board wants more information on parking before it votes on whether to approve a change in the site plan approval for the closed Turning Tide methadone clinic. Representatives for Turning Tide appeared before the planning board at its Dec. 7 meeting, seeking approval for an amendment to the parking requirements. But the board said the information was insufficient. The next meeting of the ...
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PublishedDecember 6, 2010
Waldoboro examines process for methadone clinic moratorium
The town of Waldoboro is researching the language and process of a moratorium on methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries, said Town Manager William Post. If a moratorium was put in place, it would give the planning board time to review the current ordinances and develop regulations for methadone clinics and marijuana dispensaries. The town’s ordinances do not specifically address methadone clinics and ...
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PublishedDecember 3, 2010
Warren Planning Board acts on methadone information
The Warren Planning Board voted unanimously Dec. 2 to rescind its previous approval of professional office space at the former elementary school, arguing that board members were not told a methadone clinic was planned for the location. Local businessman Bob Emery, through his company Vixen Land Holdings LLC, has a purchase-and-sale agreement with the town to buy the former elementary school at 44 School St. ...
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PublishedDecember 2, 2010
Warren plans methadone moratorium meeting
Warren residents will be asked in a special town meeting to approve a six-month moratorium on all medical or methadone clinics in the community while the town creates zoning to regulate such facilities. The Warren Planning Board is set to review Vixen Land Holding LLC's (Bob Emery's) site plan again at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 2 at the town office. Selectmen will meet briefly around 6:45 p.m. to sign the warrant ...
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PublishedNovember 30, 2010
Warren blasts CRC Health, methadone culture
Warren citizens, approximately 500 of them, vehemently opposed discussing at a community meeting Nov. 29 any possibility of siting a substance abuse clinic in their small village. Meanwhile, the company that is proposing a clinic maintains it has signed no lease; however, it intends to pursue the possibility of siting a clinic in Warren, obtain a license from the state of Maine, and "sit down and look at it," ...
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