Piscataquis County ME 2017-2018 Resource & Relocation Guide
Table Of Contents 4-5 Newcomer Information 6 Help Hotlines 7 Health & Hospitals 8 Local Education 11 Things To Do 12 State Information 14-15 Piscataquis County Map 16-17 Dover- Foxcroft City Map 18 Home Buyer Information 21 Buyer Mistakes 23 How Much Can You Afford 25 Tips to Selling Your Home 26 Packing Tips 27 Moving Checklist 28 Homefinder Notepad Skyline Publishing Project Coordinator: John Armbruster Ad & Book Designer: Linda Swindler 1
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Newcomer Information Post Offices US Post Office 2 Greenville Rd. Monson, ME (207) 997-3975 US Post Office 41 North St. (207) 564-2511 Courthouse US Post Office 383 Pritham Ave. (207) 695-3353 US Post Office 1 W Rd. Abbot, ME (207) 876-4009 US Post Office 54 S. Main St. Sangerville, ME (207) 876-4048 US Post Office 77 Railroad Ave. Brownville, ME (207) 965-8553 Piscataquis County Probate Court 159 E. Main St. Suite 12 (207) 564-2431 Piscataquis County Sheriff's Office - 52 Court St. - (207) 564-3304 Police Greenville Police Department 10 Minden (207) 695-2570 Greenville Police Department 7 Minden St. (207) 695-3835 Milo Police Department 6 Pleasant St. Milo, ME (207) 943-2522 Dover-Foxcroft Police Department 182 East Main St. (207) 564-8021 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, DIAL 911 Fire Dover-Foxcroft Fire Department 105 East Main St. (207) 564-2610 Milo Fire Department 6 Pleasant St. Milo, ME (207) 943-2303 Wellington Fire Department 9 Parkman Rd. Wellington, ME (207) 683-2606 Sangerville Fire Department 9 School St. Sangerville, ME (207) 876-4181 Monson Fire Department 10 Tenney Hill Rd. Monson, ME (207) 997-3676 Utilities Electric Central Maine Power (800) 750-4000 Ridgewood Brown's Mill 16 Vaughn Rd. (207) 564-3123 4 Water Dover-Foxcroft Water District 48 Morton Ave. (207) 564-2310 Milo Water District 146 Park St. Milo, ME (207) 943-2501 Guilford & Sangerville Water 54 Hudson Ave. Guilford, ME (207) 876-3066 Telecommunications 19 Moosehead Trl. Newport, ME (207) 355-0100 TDS Telecom 65 Elm St. Hartland,ME (207) 938-9911 Solu Communications 1013 Hudson Rd. Glenburn, ME (207) 945-4055 5
Health & Hospitals Department of Health & Human Services 396 Griffin Road Bangor, ME (207) 992-4570 Dial 911for Emergencies Mayo Regional Hospital 897 W. Main St. (207) 564-8401 C.A. Dean Memorial Hospital 364 Pritham Ave. (207) 695-5200 6 Community Health and Counseling Services 1093 W. Main St. (207) 564-8175 Promote, protect and improve the health of all people in Maine 7
Local School Districts Regional School Unit No. 68 63 Harrison Ave. Suite C (207) 564-6535 When Registering Your Children For School, Please Remember To Bring: Current Immunization Record & Birth Certificate Name & Address Of Last School Attended Last Report Card & Any Scores Obtained From Standardized Tests Colleges & Universities University of Maine 165 East Main St. (207) 564-3301 We are committed to the success of every student! 8 9
Piscataquis County Lily Bay State Park 13 Myrle's Way Greenville, Maine 04441 (207) 695-2700 Peaks-Kenny State Park 401 State Park Rd. 207) 564-2003 Baxter State Park 64 Balsam Dr. Millinocket, ME (207) 723-5140 Balsam Woods Campground 112 Pond Rd. Abbot, ME (207) 876-2731 Cozy Moose Inc. 451 Moosehead Lake Rd. (207) 695-0242 Moosehead Cottage Resort 3 Vacation Ln. (207) 695-2112 Casey's Spencer Bay Camps P.O. Box 1190 (207) 695-2801 Center Theater Inc. 20 E. Main St. (207) 564-8943 Foxcroft Golf Course 84 Foxcroft Center Rd. Dover Foxcroft, ME (207) 564-8887 Moosehead Marine Museum 12 Lily Bay Rd. (207) 695-2716 Maine Moose Watching Tours Moosehead Lake Rd. (207) 695-0151 Northwoods Outfitters 5 Lily Bay Rd. (866) 223-1380 Northeast Guide Service Day Trips 142 Moosehead Lake Rd. (888) 484-3317 Cedar Winds Stables Horeseback Riding Route 15 Charleston, ME (207) 285-3472 10 The Junction 197 Davis St. Brownville, ME (207) 965-8876 11
12 Maine The Pine Tree State Capital: Augusta Population: 1,318,301 The 23rd State to Enter the Union, Maine s State Motto is: Dirigo meaning I Lead. John Cabot and his son, Sebastian, are believed to have visited the Maine coast in 1498. However, the first permanent English settlements were not established until more than a century later, in 1623. Long governed by Massachusetts, Maine became the 23rd state as part of the Missouri Compromise in 1820. Maine produces 98% of the nation's low-bush blueberries. Farm income is also derived from apples, potatoes, dairy products, and vegetables, with poultry and eggs the largest selling items. The state is one of the world's largest pulp-paper producers. With almost 89% of its area forested, Maine turns out wood products from boats to toothpicks. Maine also leads the world in the production of the familiar flat tins of sardines, producing more than 75 million of them annually. In 2005, Maine lobstermen landed nearly 63 million pounds of lobster. A scenic seacoast, beaches, lakes, mountains, and resorts make Maine a popular vacationland. There are more than 2,500 lakes and 5,000 streams, plus more than 30 state parks to attract hunters, fishermen, skiers, and campers. Major points of interest are Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Allagash National Wilderness Waterway, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland, Roosevelt Campobello International Park, and the St. Croix Island National Monument. State Bird: Black-capped Chickadee State Flower: White Pinecone & Tassel State Tree: Eastern White Pine State Song: State of Maine Song - State Facts - State Gemstone: Tourmaline Highest Point: Mount Katahdin - 5,268 ft Area: 35,385 sq mi Largest City: Portland Entered the Union: March 15, 1820 (23rd) Top Industries: Blueberries, Pulp-paper, Sardines, Lobster A Bit of History Piscataquis County Piscataquis County is the central region of Maine. Penobscot County bounds it on the east and south, Somerset on the west and south, and Aroostook on the north and east. On the western boundary lies Moosehead Lake, and opposite, on the eastern side, are Peinadumcook and Millinoket lakes. This county also constitutes a large part of the most elevated region of Maine, lying, on an average upwards of 1200 feet above the sea. Midway of its eastern border rises Katahdin to a height of 5,385 feet above sea level. Several others rise many hundreds of feet above the surrounding region, and to thousands of feet above the sea. The greatest height of land appears to be about midway between Moosehead Lake on the west and Pemadumcook on the east, Chesuncook on the north and Sebec Lake on the south, and again in the region of Mount Katahdin and north-west thereof. From these tracts the streams flow off in all directions; and between them runs the west branch of the Penobscot. On Pleasant River, in the eastern township of the Bowdoin College grant, and some 20 miles above the Katahdin Iron Mines, is a marvellous glen, through which the little river makes its wild course, now leaping down stupendous cataracts, and anon shooting between towering walls, forming a passage which is the dread of lumbermen, and quite enrapturing to visitors. In Elliotsville, a township adjoining Greenville on the south-west, is a natural curiosity which has yet received little attention. It is a fall on a stream called the Little Wilson, of 80 feet perpendicular. Clapboard bolts have sometimes been driven over this fall, but many of them would be split and quartered from end to end. The whole of this county is on the north side of the 45th parallel of north latitude. Frosts come early, the winters are long and snows deep; yet even in the northern part wheat and the other farm products, excepting corn, ripen abundant crops. When first entered by settlers. this territory was included in Hancock and Kennebec counties, but when (in 1809) Somerset County was incorporated, the western portion, amounting to three tiers of townships, was embraced in this new county. In 1816, Penobscot County was incorporated, and all but the three western tiers of townships above mentioned were included in that county. In 1838, Piscataquis County was incorporated, taking four tiers of townships from Penobscot, and three from Somerset county, the most western tier being included in the Bingham purchase. It then extended in full width to Canada, but in 1844 its northern portion, embracing about 60 townships, was annexed to Aroostook County. In its present extent it contains more than 100 full townships, with an area of 3,780 square miles. The townships are generally 6 miles square, lying in regular ranges; the latter was numbered from the north line of the Waldo patent (now constituting a part of the north line of Waldo County) the southern tier in Piscataqius County being the sixth range in this enumeration. In its length north and, south, it includes 16 townships, and in its width, 7. Nearly two-thirds of these townships arc now covered with forests, and wholly unoccupied, except by the lumber men in their annual pursuit of logs. The county abounds in water-power, slate, granite, limestone; while there are some valuable mineral deposits, the chiefest yet known being the Katahdin iron mine. The most important river is the Piscataquis, which gives its name to the county, and upon which the first settlements were made. The pioneer settler of Piscataquis County was Eli Towne, who moved his family from Temple, N. H., into Dover in 1803. Sebec was the first town incorporated in the county, the act having been passed February 28, 1812. The next was Foxcroft, which was incorporated on February 29, 1812. Dover, though the first settled, was not incorporated until 1822. The principal occurrences of wide-spread effect in the county were the cold seasons of 1815 and the following year, when the crops suffered to such an extent as to produce great hardship, and the great fires of 1825, which began in August and continued until the middle of October, in which much timber land and quite a number of dwellings were destroyed. 13
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How much House Can You Afford? How much you can afford is determined by a relatively simple formula. Lenders generally figure that no more than 28 percent of your income should be for total housing costs. In addition, they require that your total monthly debt be less than 36 percent of your income. (Note: These are general numbers. Other loan programs may allow higher percentages.) For example, if you make $48,000 a year, divided by 12 months, your monthly income is $4,000. (Remember, that s $48,000 in gross pay, before federal and state taxes are removed.) Twenty-eight percent of $4,000 is $1,120. That is the most you can make in a monthly mortgage, taxes, and insurance payments. Generally, to qualify, the self-employed buyer must have been self-employed in the same line of work for at least 24 months before applying for a loan. Lenders use your net income, the figure at the bottom of schedule C of your federal income tax form, to decide how large a mortgage you can carry. But they don t look at what you earn now or what you made last year. Rather lenders figure the monthly average of your income over the past 24 months. Also, overtime pay & bonuses sometimes may not be figured into your average income. Don t forget that points, closing costs & other out-of-the-pocket expenses probably will come out to about one percent of the mortgage amount. 22 23
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Packing Strategies Supplies: Preparing to move: A strategy for packing: Packing for efficiency: - - 26 27
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