Vienna Clerk Announcements - March, 2022

2022 Municipal Election results were:

Chris Smith 30

Kathy Kelley 1 write-in

Upcoming events

May 24: RSU #9 Annual Budget Meeting/Vote at 6:30pm at the Mt. Blue High School

June 14: State of Maine Primary Election from 8am to 8pm. 

The vote for the School budget referendum will be at this time.

1st payment for 2022 taxes are due by June 30. 

Hopefully we get the tax bills out by the last of May.  

My hours are:

Tuesday & Thursdays - 5pm to 7pm

Wednesdays - 9am to 12 and 12:30 to 5pm

Last Saturday of the month - 9am to 12 pm

Vienna Record: Apr-May 2022

View the Apr-May 2022 issue here

Selectmen's Minutes February 1, 2022 through March 29, 2022

Planning board minutes - January 26, 2022 and February 23, 2022

From the Health Officer: Covid's next tricks - March 25, 2022

Town Clerk hours municipal election results

Happenings at the Mill Stream Grange

Dr. Shaw Memorial Library News

Vienna Union Hall report

Fire Department News

Mt. Vernon Community Center announcements

News and Comments - Vol. 1 No. 1 - 1984

Editors: Peter Devine, Coloman von Graff, Bob Weingarten

Luther Gray on making Hay, by Alice Bloom

Dr. Shaw Library report by Bonnie Dwyer

Our Schools: Mt. Vernon by William C. Hayes

Candidates Speak Out: Mt. Vernon - Kerry Casey, Jack Flannery, George Smith, Deane Jones, Herbert Choat

Vienna: Our Taxes by Coloman VonGraff

Candidates Speak Out: Vienna - Betty Clark, Gary Seamon, Dodi Thompson, Harold Bean, Alvin Hastings, Irene Goff, Ed Collins, Coloman VonGraff

Vienna: Where does the money go

News and Comments - Vol. 2 No. 1 - 1985

Selectmen of Vienna report

"There is Always Something" - Jean Anderberg - Town dump issues

"I am No Longer Your Town Clerk" - Jon & Claudia Ljunggren

"Who is Running for Office in Vienna" - Rachel Meader, Betty Clark, Ivy Berry, Frank Berry, Linwood Meader

"1984 and the Vienna Planning Board" - Creston Gaither

"Union Hall" - Marti Gross

"The Meader Deer Club" - Coloman VonGraff

"Vienna Historical Society" 

"Mill Stream Grange Vienna" - Judy Dunn

"Civil Emergency Preparedness" - Joseph M. Gajarski

Is the Covid Pandemic Really Getting Better? - Feb 23, 2022

Is the Covid Pandemic Really Getting Better?

Feb 23, 2022

Dan Onion, MD, MPH

Mt. Vernon/Vienna/Fayette Health Officer

293-2076; dkonion@gmail.com

Everybody seems to be ecstatically deciding it’s time to celebrate by throwing masks in the wind and quitting all other Covid precautions. There are indeed some indications that the pandemic from both the Delta and the Omicron variant that replaced it in late December and January here, is subsiding. On the other hand, the Omicron strain #2 has not yet been found in Maine but is zipping through Europe and starting to be found in the US. It is even more transmissible than the Omicron #1 strain. 

However, the pandemic outcome measures are only relatively better and there is reason to fear that we could see those measures go up again in yet another surge, starting a week or two into March. The public’s fervent but perhaps premature hope, with the abandonment of precautions, the appearance of yet another, even more infectious Omicron strain, coming on fast in the US, increased transmissions during the February school vacations and basketball tournaments, and our March town meetings, could all coalesce to bring us one heck of a new surge in late March.

Granted, the recent improvements of Maine wastewater Covid loads, hospitalizations and severe disease as reflected in ICU/ventilator use, could well be permanent, but they could also still be only a transient change. I’d like to see us achieve real community immunity, with over 80% of the population fully immunized by then. We are close now, at 73.4% of all, and 77% of eligible people (i.e. age 5 and over),

If all those worries are still diminishing through the end of March, maybe further opening up will be reasonable. But the older you are, the greater the risk. Since January 2021 to today, almost half the Covid deaths are in those 70 and older. I, for one, plan to get any boosters for which I am eligible, and to stay masked with good KN95s, N95s, or doubled surgical and cloth masks when indoors with people not recently tested and negative for Covid, for several more months, no matter further pandemic easing here in Maine. Please be Covid-careful for yourself and your family!


 

Broadband survey - Feb 2022

Tom Jewett’s  compilation of our February 2022 anonymous survey 

Follow the highlighted links to see the survey summary and survey comments. 

Survey Summary – This is a count of the survey cards returned.  Cards are summarized in groups that had the same answers to the 5 boxes shown on the report.  For example, there were 4 people who reported that they have Internet, via DSL, are satisfied with it, want better Internet, and want to town to pursue it.  There are 9 who have a connection, via cellphone, are NOT satisfied with it, want better Internet, and want the town to pursue it.

  • It is difficult data to summarize because there are so many different possible combinations of service type, satisfaction and whether they want the town to pursue something better.  If you have questions or concerns please shoot me an e-mail or give me a call.  207-242-7612
  • SurveyComments – I found it interesting that 55 people included comments written on the card.  I have printed those on this report.  They are not sorted in any way and some of the comments may be hard to understand without seeing the specific responses to the survey and the comment at the same time.  In spite of that, I thought that if people felt strongly enough to make a comment, I should pass them along to you.

The last time I picked up the cards was on Saturday Feb 19th.  There were 5 cards in that batch.  I do not pick up my mail every day.  This was the smallest number of cards on one pickup since we sent the letter and survey.  I’m guessing there won’t be many more.

Regards,

Tom

Vienna Record: Feb-Mar 2022

View the Feb-Mar 2022 issue here

Selectmen's Minutes December 28, 2021 through January 25, 2022

Planning board minutes - Nov. 24, 2021

From the Health Officer: Selected Covid News as of Jan. 27, 2022

Broadband Committee report

Announcement of applications for the annual Dorothy Waugh Memorial Scholarship

Town Clerk hours and dog registration fees

Dr. Shaw Memorial Library News

Mill Stream Grange news

Fire Department News