The Town Line

The Town Line

The Town Line is a community newspaper that operates as a nonprofit entity in South China, serving over 20 towns in central Maine. Managed by a volunteer board of directors, The Town Line, Inc. relies on a team that includes a managing editor, bookkeeper, and advertising manager. Additionally, many volunteers play a crucial role in helping with the newspaper's weekly production and are always welcome to join. Incorporated under the Maine Nonprofit Corporations Act, The Town Line has received nonprofit status under §501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. The paper fulfills its mission primarily through revenue generated from local business advertising, along with memberships, subscriptions from community members, and support from private and municipal grants.

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  • 4 days ago | townline.org | Mary J. Grow

    by Mary GrowThe lawyers discussed in this series earlier this spring were undoubtedly important in the lives of European settlers in the central Kennebec Valley. Before the lawyers, and equally if not more important, were another group of professional men: the surveyors. Several surveyors’ names appear in 18th-century records, usually because the men were hired by the Plymouth Company/Kennebec Proprietors, the Boston-based companies with deeds to large parts of the area.

  • 4 days ago | townline.org | Rix Quinn

    by Rix QuinnDid you know that 4,000 years ago people lived without rules? With no restrictions, imagine the chaos, imagine the confusion…imagine the fun. That changed when Babylon’s King Hammurabi pulled out his ball-point chisel, and carved his 282-law Code. Among his commands: If you owed somebody a debt, you could give them your spouse. This became a primitive form of “no-fault divorce.”We continued to refine human interaction with “etiquette,” or rules of polite conduct.

  • 4 days ago | townline.org | Mary J. Grow

    by Mary GrowVassalboro Cemetery Committee members have another item on their maintenance list, after their June 16 meeting. They were already planning the summer’s work, to include stonework by Joseph Ferrannini from July 10 through July 13 in the North Vassalboro cemetery and tree removal in the Nelson Road and Farwell-Brown cemeteries. Select board members are scheduled to open three bids for the tree work at their June 26 meeting.

  • 1 week ago | townline.org | Mary J. Grow

    by Mary GrowThis article will return to the history of a series of buildings, more cheerful than the Augusta jail(s) described in the June 5 story: Waterville’s town hall that became a city hall that was – and still is – combined with a large gathering space called an opera house. As with the public buildings in Augusta, there are gaps and inconsistencies in the information. A small part of the problem is nomenclature.

  • 1 week ago | townline.org | Rix Quinn

    by Rix QuinnMy dog gets excited when I say the word “dog park.” He knows he’ll see friends there. But yesterday was different. There was only one other mixed breed dog, working with his owner. “Your dog appears really alert,” I said. “Does he do tricks?”“Sure,” the guy said.

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