News

Drafting a plan to make a plan

Gray--The Gray Town Council met in another long workshop Monday night to discuss six items, and discuss they did, until 11:30 p.m. The hall was empty except for the Council, Manager, Planner, Public Works Director and the reporter. With no audience members or other reporters, discussions echoed from the walls into the wee hours. ... more

Along for the ride
First-day school bus mix-ups

In Gray-New Gloucester five children had a much more thrilling first day of school than they or their parents bargained for. The normal first day mix-ups were compounded by bus numbering inconsistencies, and other events that rapidly resulted in ... more

High fuel costs prompt varied responses

With the fuel costs having risen so much, The Monument asked local Administrators how they are coping, or plan to cope, with the likely shortfalls due to spiked fuel costs. SAD 15 Superintendent Victoria Burns and SAD 15 Operations and Finance Director Terry Towle, New Gloucester Town Manager Rosemary Kulow, and Gray Town Manager Mitchell A. Berkowitz were asked the following questions: ... more

New Gloucester Town Manager report
Submitted by Rosemary Kulow

-- Household Hazardous Waste Collection
--Vandalism at Rowe Station Road Recreation Field
--Public Works Employees
--New England Managers' Institute
--Joint Leaders (Town of New Gloucester, Town of Gray, and SAD 15) more

"Believe in ME...Maine"
By Rep. Susan Austin

Representing portions of Gray, No.Yarmouth & Pownal, serving on the Business Research and Economic Development Committee I gain and gather "good news" just for YOU!

The Second Special- Session is over now but there is still plenty of information coming across my screen. ...more

Utility Test proves versatile hunting dogs

The situation was tense. Not a dog barked. Not a duck quacked. Not an owner coughed. The camouflaged hunters in the bush waited as if they were statues, wondering if the German Short haired pointer would pass. ... more

NOAA says come in
Federal Facility holding Open house

Gray--Anybody visiting the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Administration offices on the hill in East Gray the last time it was open to the public would have seen meteorologists manually typing out the forecasts. Now, almost ten years later, as the NOAA office prepares to host another Open House, the inside of this high-tech federal facility looks like, well, a high-tech federal facility ... more

Commentary:

Post-9/11 secrecy: pervasive and dangerous
By Paul K. McMasters, First Amendment Center

If you sort the millions of pages, documents and computer disks stamped secret by federal employees last year into stacks each as high as the Washington Monument, you would have a dozen or more monuments to government stonewalling obscuring the skyline of this nation's capital. more