Blayne Street is to be closed to foot and vehicle traffic from Monday, April 19, through Wednesday, April 21, while a Public Works crew installs 239 feet of ductile iron water pipe.
The work is to occur in the Beedy Brook section, which was washed out in December by heavy rains and flooding. After the new pipe has been placed, the road is to be paved before being reopened.
Residents living in and around Blayne Street beyond Bradley Street are to use the Dirigo Middle School Access Road to go to and from their homes, said acting Public Works Director Tim Hanson.
Dixfield: Scouts send goodies to troops
The town’s adopted unit of Army soldiers serving in Iraq should soon receive two care packages.
Dixfield Cub Scout Pack 506 sent two boxes of supplies to the 82nd Airborne Division of the Aviation Support Battalion in the Army’s Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Company.
Dixfield adopted the unit in November, sending the troops letters, cards, mementos of the town and various goods.
Among the items sent by the Cub Scouts were toothpaste, lip balm, candy, stationery, deodorant, baby wipes and several patriotic letters from the youths.
Troop 506 consists of Cody Berryment, Justin Chartier, Cody Houghton, Casey Childs, Ben Hebert, Michael Chow, Allen Hodgson and Den Leader Rene Chartier.
“Dixfield Town Office staff thanks the boys for their generosity,” said Town Clerk Vickie Carrier, whose nephew, Scott Drown, 26, a 1994 graduate of Dirigo High School, is a member of that unit. Carrier said Drown had received orders to return home this month after serving in Iraq for more than a year.
Postage for the Cub Scout parcels was paid by donations collected at the Town Office for this purpose.
Dixfield: $356,000 coming back to town
DIXFIELD – Town coffers are expected to be $356,000 richer once the final numbers are in from the Maine State Retirement System in late May, said Town Manager Nanci Allard.
It was Allard who discovered last year that Dixfield officials had been socking money away for several years into the system, without realizing they’d withdrawn from it many years ago.
“All this time, the town’s money was just sitting there,” Allard said.
After receiving an annual statement from the retirement system, she said she contacted legal counsel and set out to recover the money, a process that has taken 18 months.
As of June 30, 2003, the town’s account at the system in Augusta had a trust fund balance of $356,042, according to a letter from Kay R.H. Evans, executive director of the Maine State Retirement System.
Allard said the money would be placed in the town’s general fund account when the matter was “trued-up” by system officials.
– Terry Karkos
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