LIVERMORE FALLS – Androscoggin Bank has pledged $1,000 for restoration work on the town’s clock on top of the bank building.
The town, with help from the Livermore Falls-Jay Rotary Club, and the bank have been raising money to repair the Seth Thomas tower clock. The bank also continues to maintain the tower on its building, and bank employees wind the clock once a week for the town.
The town needs $10,000 for the aging timepiece. So far, including the bank’s donation, $1,715 has been raised or pledged.
That amount doesn’t include money in a penny jar that students at the Livermore Falls Middle School donated, Town Manager Alan Gove said.
The clock was installed in 1912 when the building, then known as the Sharaf building, at 38 Main St., was rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in 1910.
D.S. Thompson, an optician, jeweler and community leader in Livermore Falls back then, donated the clock to the town. The original cost is estimated to be $1,200.
The penny jar and T-shirts featuring the clock were at the Town Office but have been moved to the bank in an effort to raise more funds.
Anyone interested in donating to keep the clock ticking can do so at the Town Office, the bank or online at the town’s Web site at lfme.org and pay through PayPal with a credit card, Gove said.
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