DEXTER — The Abbott Memorial Library is getting ready for summer reading fun.

By Rhonda Hanson WeaverFA Class of 1967     Back then, your teachers had the last word, and a call home was something to be worried about.

By Nina Brawn     I have been working on one of those amazing family history books that Ancestry.

GOP not so grand anymore To the Editor:    Who’s side is the Republican Party on? The Boston Marathon or the Boston bombers?    Anxious to get the President at any cost are they getting the attention of the next generation of Boston bombers to warn them how to be careful with their communications?     PRISM, a program to scan foreign phone numbers, not phone calls, for patterns, has been effective, and kept a necessary secret by all of government except the Congress, which has betrayed the American people with their revelation and blatant bugling of its existence, breaching their oath of office in the process.

By Mike LangeStaff Writer     GREENVILLE — Pepin Associates, an award-winning research and development firm, will be scaling back its operation in the Greenville Industrial Park at the end of June but not closing, according to company founder John Pepin.

To approve a $9,792,467spending plan for 2013-14 Town                       Yes        NoCharleston                12           6 Dover-Foxcroft        267        96Monson                     15        26Sebec                        11         4 Total                         305     132 SAD 4To approve a $7,240,311.

*denotes incumbent Board of SelectmenTop 2 voted in for three-year terms                                    VotesGail D’Agostino*        256Jane Conroy*            220Jeffrey Merchant      111Top 1 voted infor a 1-year term                                  VotesBenjamin Cabot         169Roger Kaufman           75Mary Merchant            61Kenneth Finnemore    32Glen Villane                23 RSU 68 Board of DirectorsTop 2 voted in for three-year terms                                     VotesMarc Poulin                      231Jennifer Chase                177Christopher Maas*          161 HAD 4 Board of DirectorsTop 1 voted in for a three-year term                                      VotesChristopher Clukey        224Christopher Maas          135 Thompson Free Library Executive Committeefor one year term    VotesAmy Fagan-Canon*    344 Warrant articles2: $1,899,580 from revenues and surplus to reduce tax commitment:Yes    314No       583: $3,652,035 for town operations:Yes    270No    1054: $132,250 to capital reserve to fund capital equipment:      Yes      290    No       835: $54,500 to capital reserve to fund capital improvements to town buildings and facilitiesYes    284No    876: Acceptance of $96,670 of state funders for URIP:Yes    332No    417: Appropriation of $741,125 in sewer department revenues:Yes    311No    62 Full results can be found at www.

    AUGUSTA — Catherine Strauch of Exeter, a student at Bates College, is one of 24 college students assisting state agencies while gaining practical skills in their respective fields of study through the Maine State Government Summer Internship Program.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dover-Foxcroft Kiwanis Club, along with the generosity of business merchants of the area, is organizing a benefit pasta dinner and raffle in memory of Dacano Arno, to be held on Thursday, June 27 at Foxcroft Academy from 4–8 p.

    Wednesday, June 19 — Ham and cheese sandwich, bean and rice salad, missed fruit cup and vanilla frosted white cake.