FRYEBURG, Maine — Selectman Rick Eastman last Thursday attempted to persuade the other selectmen to pass a motion to prevent the town from paying for a peer review of the as-yet-uncompleted Emery & Garrett aquifer study.
The rest of the board wasn't having it.
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