Manager Jack Clukey News Today

DOVER-FOXCROFT — A proposed budget totaling $8,302,205 for the 2024-25 fiscal year was approved at the annual town meeting in the Morton Avenue Municipal Building Gymnasium on the morning of Saturday, April 27. The figure will be offset by $4,728,035 in nontax revenues for a net amount of $3,574,170 to be raised through property taxes.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Last month the Dover-Foxcroft Select Board voted to accept a recommendation from the Mayo Mill Dam steering committee that removing the dam and connecting facilities and building a riverfront park is in the town’s best interests moving forward. Reducing flooding dangers, improving the area’s ecology, including fish passage, and the availability of funding for dam removal were among the main reasons for the committee’s conclusion.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — As a way to supplement an increased emergency call volume and staffing challenges currently being experienced by Northern Light Mayo Emergency Medical Services, the town of Dover-Foxcroft is proposing the creation of a municipal EMS department to supplement that of the hospital. The proposal is part of the initial 2024-25 municipal budget presented to the select board during a meeting on Monday, Feb.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Piscataquis County Economic Development Council currently has a request for proposals out to develop a hotel in Dover-Foxcroft. The council has identified two potential sites for development — the market prices for the parcels are to be determined between the buyer and seller — with one being an undeveloped lot on West Main Street behind Community Health & Counseling Services and Penquis Rental and the other being any available lot within the Pine Crest Business P...

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Select Board signed the 2023-24 tax commitment during a meeting on Monday, Aug. 21.

The Dover-Foxcroft Select Board voted unanimously to contract with MaineDOT on the project Monday, although one board member was absent.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — For two centuries now, Foxcroft Academy has served as the secondary educational institution for the local community, being founded only a few years after Maine became the nation’s 23rd state.  Exactly 200 years to the day, Foxcroft Academy kicked off its Bicentennial with a Tuesday morning assembly in the gym.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department’s station will be ready for colder weather with both boilers in a dual system to be replaced in August after one was recently lost. “I guess the timing is good because as soon as it got warm enough not to need the boilers, one of them went down,” Town Manager Jack Clukey said during a select board meeting on Monday evening.