Dover-Foxcroft stares down massive tax hike to maintain ailing dam

Dover-Foxcroft stares down massive tax hike to maintain ailing dam

Residents in Dover-Foxcroft could see their property tax bills increase by hundreds of dollars each year if the town commits to maintaining its ailing dam on the Piscataquis River to federal standards, officials said at a meeting in early February. The projections provide the clearest details yet of the consequences of a townwide vote in June, when voters rejected plans to remove the Mayo Mill dam. Removing the dam would likely have been funded …