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DIXFIELD — A public hearing on raising the sewer rate this year from $70 to $93 per quarter is set for 5:30 p.m. Monday, the first step in possibly erasing an estimated $1 million deficit that’s been building since 2011. The meeting will be held downstairs at the Ludden Library. Town Manager Alicia Conn said […]

DIXFIELD — When the Select Board meets Monday, they will likely set a date for a public meeting regarding a large sewer rate increase. At the Nov. 28 meeting, Town auditor Ron Smith, RHR Smith told the board, “The sewer rate today is what it should have been back in 2011. Through the last 10 […]

Read Article New Dixfield Town Manager James McLamb (center) is seen starting a discussion during the Board of Selectmen’s meeting on June 21. At left is Selectman Ricky Davis. At right in Selectman Peter Holman. Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times   DIXFIELD — After a long discussion, the Dixfield Board of Selectmen on June 21 found a way to honor Norine Clarke (board chairwoman who passed away this past May 4 at the age of 81). What took so long was that Clarke was involved in so many di...

Head below for the full list of SF titles heading your way in June! Keep track of all the new SFF releases here. All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher. Note: Release dates are subject to change.   The Ninth Metal (Comet Cycle #1)—Benjamin Percy (Mariner Books) It began with a comet… At first, people gazed in wonder at the radiant tear in the sky. A year later, the celestial marvel became a planetary crisis when Earth spun through the comet’s ...

(Penguin Random House/Vintage 978-0-593-08115-0, $17, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, June 1, 2021) Fantasy novel, inspired in part on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, about mercenaries transporting a sacred oracle in 16th-century Netherlands. With lush, erudite prose and a large cast of darkly eccentric humans and monsters, this spellbinding slipstream novel from Catling (the Vorrh trilogy) feels like stepping into one of Hieronymus Bosch’s playfully macabre paintings—work...