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After 18 Paris Firefighters Resigned, Town Will Hold A Special Meeting

A special meeting involving the Paris Fire Department, where 18 members resigned this week, is taking place Monday evening at the town office.

Select Board Chair Rusty Brackett says this will be an executive session involving fire department personnel, the town manager, the select board and the town attorney “to discuss a personnel matter regarding a complaint.”

The Lewiston Sun Journal reports that the resignations followed the town manager’s reversal of a personnel decision by the fire chief to reduce one member's rank.

Brackett says he presumes that the firefighters who tendered their resignations will attend the meeting.

The town manager was not available for comment, and calls to the Fire Chief were not returned.

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.