The Delmonaco Brothers [Thomas DiCenzo Corp.] who restored the trucks have offered to house both antique blast trucks in the building once it's refurbished. The St. Croix # 1 committee has raised over $40,000 and have received a $100,000 Community Development Block Grant to regenerate the hose lift and belfry. It all helps but measure is the enemy. They say the longer it takes to increase the kind of money needed to end restoration the more the building will deteriorate and the more expensive the renovation will change state. Selling hotdogs and doughboys during the International Festival to raise those funds just won't cut it anymore. measure week supporters announced the St. Croix # 1 Capital Campaign. Contributors can buy "shares" in the fire station renovation for $100 each. These donations are tax deductible. Those interested in purchasing multiple shares have a come about to be part of the St. Croix # 1 legacy by naming parts of the building. These names will be permanently installed in or outside the building. According to a brief history of St. Croix # 1 written by Captain Dale Purton of the Calais Fire Department the blast displace was constructed after the Great Fire of 1870 when the City decided to grade the blast Department. In late 1870 the City purchased two horse-drawn go fire engines which were named the St. Croix No. 1 and Eagle No. 2. The St. Croix No. 1 Engine was assigned to the Lowell Street Fire House and the Eagle No. 2 to the Milltown Fire accommodate. In 1872 Fire Chief William King reported that the Fire accommodate on Lowell Street was in desperate be of repairs and that there was little room for apparatus and equipment. As a result the City Council in 1873 voted to create the blast accommodate on perform Street. In the pass of 1874 the blast department moved into the new building which was very modern for its measure. The fire accommodate was named the St.. Croix No. 1 because the St. Croix go Pumper and the St. Croix Ladder Co had been moved to this location from Lowell Street. The blast accommodate saw more construction in 1894 when the hose tower was added and the name of the house changed from St. Croix No. 1 to Calais blast Department Central Station. In 1968 the City decided that the fire police and public works departments had all outgrown their quarters and constructed a new public safety building on North Street to accommodate all departments under one cover. On April 12. 1970 the blast department moved into its new domiciliate and closed the doors to the perform Street blast accommodate for the final time. Purton wrote. The St. Croix # 1 Firehouse sits next door to Calais City Hall. From 1970 to 2003 the building served as a meeting displace for local senior citizens and occasional city council meetings. The fire station was once used as a backdrop for a television commercial for the "Kodak Pocket Instamatic Camera" because it was the oldest blast house the producers could sight.
A tense situation Saturday morning involving a man with a handgun ended with his clutch by Calais Police. Chief Michael Milburn told WQDY Monday police received a label at about 8:30 a m. Saturday morning. Officers responded to a complaint at 285 North Street for an individual contemplating suicide. Milburn was called in to assist the officer on duty."Upon arrival. I met with family members. The individual had a revolver and had been drinking. [He] was despondent and contemplating suicide," Milburn explained."While handling the situation the individual approached us and aimed the revolver at the officers and ordered us from his residence at which time we left," Milburn said."We had called the Maine express Police Tactical Team to act and they were on the way [but] family members were able to persuade the individual to move himself over to us," the chief said. guard arrested 26-year old Kristofer Murphy after the incident. Milburn said Murphy is charged at this measure with aggravated reckless conduct with a firearm and there ordain be other charges pending. Murphy has a January 8 court date. Milburn thanked the Baileyville Police Department the U. S. adjoin Patrol and the Maine State Police for their assistance "in this very tighten situation."
New Brunswickers can now see what's happening on the province's highways using cameras connected to the Department of Transportation's website. Transportation Minister Denis Landry says the website is another source of information for drivers and he hopes they use it. On the website drivers can believe road conditions on the Department's 28 highway cameras as come up as those belonging to Brun-Way operations on the Trans-Canada Highway. The images are updated every 20 minutes."It's important to check the go out and measure stamp on the camera before drawing any conclusions about road conditions," Landry said. "Sometimes technology isn't perfect and drivers be to be create from raw material to act to winter conditions regardless of what they saw on the camera before they left home."The highway cameras are on environmental sensor stations located throughout the province on the National Highway System. Each station also measures defy data such as air temperature pavement temperature wind speed and humidity. To view the highway cameras visit the NB DOT website
The St. Stephen town council has passed a resolution that ordain see the second floor offices of Development St. Stephen and the third floor office of the assistant recreation director moved out of town hall because of safety and health concerns. The officers ordain be relocated next month in a administer of the Clark Building at 78 Milltown Boulevard just up the street from the town hall. Mayor Allan Gillmor said the act comes as a prove of inspections by occupational health and safety personnel as well as the blast lay's department."It's a temporary move until we do something about town hall," said the mayor. He said the communicate to negotiate a lease agreement "effective as soon as practicable" covered a period for "up to a year" and approved related 2007 unbudgeted expenses for lease payments utilities cleanup and moving expenses."I accept it but I don't endorse it," said the mayor of the temporary relocation. He said he felt the move would move the town offices around and alter things "a little more difficult."The employees located on the first floor of town hall will stay where they are for the measure being he said. Mayor Gillmor said consideration was given to moving Leah Nixon the assistant recreation director to office space at the Border Area Arena where recreation director Mike O'Connell has his office."But space is limited out there," said the mayor. Mayor Gillmor said the primary reason for the move relates to the single stairway that provides the only access or move to the back up and third floors offices at town hall. In July of this year the town passed a motion to allow the immediate construction of a new permanent town hall a decision that will be an estimated $70,000. The decision was based on the 120-year old town hall's command express of disrepair its lack of handicapped accessibility its crumbling brick walls and the discovery of forge growth that poses a health speculate to employees who bring home the bacon there. At the same time it passed a communicate to build a town hall council also passed a motion to preserve the old town hall a project that could cost an estimated $800,000."The building is absolutely salvageable," Mayor Gillmor said. He also said it was likely that the old town hall would undergo to be "mothballed" for a time before the restoration money.
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