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WINTHROP -- Voters more than a year ago balked at the idea of spending $2.8 million to build a single facility...
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Don Chase of Winthrop, ME
Jan 6, 2009 12:03 AM
Air Force?
Spy??
= cub scout
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Maidene62 of Augusta, ME
Jan 5, 2009 5:45 PM
It looks like Billy Boy is jumping on Joe Young's regional Safety Director bandwagon. Who would have thunked it?report abuse
Bill Randall of Winthrop, ME
Jan 5, 2009 5:06 PM
For reasons unknown to me, the following comment was removed. I will try it again with one "word" deleted and a single correction of memory. The use of the "word", the name of a business, may have been in violation of the Reader Comments. I may also need the services of the town's attorney if they are that complicated.

We also could have had our law enforcement needs served by a far more professional police agency, the Kennebec County Sheriff's Department. Agreeably, the EMS people did need expanded facilities although I would have preferred doing what other towns have done. Manchester, did for example, contract with a private EMS service and the Town Manager told me it is far less costly and happy with the service. Making improvements at the fire station is the worst sham of all. It is not uncommon for 6-7 of these worthless fire firefighting units and their costly equipment to show up at a fire scene using their greatest skill - poring water on the ashes and creating a mess. Have a chat with a clean up company and let them enlighten you as to the final cost of cleaning up the mess left by firefighters. Volunteer firemen save nothing - I repeat - they save nothing. A group of boy scouts armed with squirt guns could easily replace them. But truly folks, a single professional regional fire department is really the way to go if you wished to be "hosed." And remember, it is we the people who pay for government extravaganza - and the self-servers will always be "wanting" more than we "need."report abuse
Solid of Winthrop, ME
Jan 5, 2009 3:58 PM
Topless..LOL

Bill

You seem to have a lot of friends in town. You must enjoy your trips to Mr. Market with all the love found here on the KJ.report abuse

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