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Blue Hill Town Contact Information•Municipal Information
Blue Hill by the Numbers•Education Emergency & Public Services •Recreation Blue Hill Town Map Note: This file is in PDF format and require Adobe® Reader® software to load. For more information or to download Adobe® Reader® please visit www.adobe.com. Town Contact Information Town of Blue Hill, P. O. Box 412, Blue Hill, ME Fax: 374-9935 Municipal Information Town Description Settled in 1762, Blue Hill has welcomed visitors and settlers who have appreciated the area’s beautiful coastal location. Filled with many cultural and family oriented activities, the area is a center for musical organizations, with Kneisel Hall offering chamber music in the summer and other groups providing a variety of concerts and performance opportunities. The town is also the home of the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, housing more than 200,000 individual titles of printed music and lending them worldwide. High schools include a semi-private high school, George Stevens Academy, and the private Blue Hill Harbor School. Primary schools include the Blue Hill Consolidated School and the private Bay School. Serving the medical needs of the surrounding community, Blue Hill Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital offering primary and selected specialty health care services. Town Officials Selectmen Tax Collector & Town Clerk Registrar of Voters Deputy Town Clerk & Tax Collector Animal Control Officer Board of Appeals Budget Committee Code Enforcement Officer & Health Inspector Director, Civil Emergency Prep. Municipal Attorney Planning Board Plumbing Inspector Road Commissioner Sexton Town Treasurer and Administrative Assistant Treatment Plant Operator Water District Trustees Harbormaster 374-2281 Tree Warden Constable Tax Information Types of properties subject to tax are all real and personal property. Bills are mailed in July and due Oct. 15. Interest on unpaid bills is 7 percent. Rules used to determine property value: MRSA Title 36. Tax exemptions: homestead and veterans. If you want to appeal your assessment go to the assessors’ agent first. How tax is calculated: value multiplied by mill rate. Mill rate was 7.0 in 2012; changes yearly. Harbor, subdivision, alter or construct building, planning board, local foods, commercial site plan review, shoreland zoning and floodplain management. Town Ordinances Harbor, subdivision, alter or construct building, planning board, local foods, commercial site plan review, shoreland zoning and floodplain management. Permits Building & plumbing: Post Offices Blue Hill 04614 East Blue Hill 04629 Blue Hill by the Numbers Geographic Profile Total area: 36,301 acres (56.72 sq. mi.) Population 2010: 2,686 Education Education Contact Numbers Union 93 Blue Hill Consolidated School School Board Blue Hill Harbor School George Stevens Academy The Bay School Enrollment figures Oct. 12 Emergency & Public Services FOR ALL EMERGENCIES— Trash & Recycling Blue Hill/Surry Transfer Station open 7 days a week, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. (winter hours 7 a.m.-4 p.m.), for trash disposal. Recycling center accepts newspapers, magazines, cardboard (no waxed, oriental, pasteboard), brown paper bags, boxboard, #2 plastic without caps, computer and office paper, aluminum and steel cans. Universal waste accepting fluorescent and compact light bulbs, computer monitors and TVs. Blue Hill, Surry, Brooklin, Brooksville and Sedgwick residents only., 374-5458 Public Restrooms Town hall, open same hours as town office. Fire Department To report a fire: 911
Non-emergency numbers: Recreation Walking Trails Blue Hill Mountain. Park on Mountain Rd., follow unmarked jeep trail through open areas and woods to summit. Public Landings Town wharf, inaccessible at low tide, South Blue Hill, Rte. 175, a wharf with a float, ramp and parking. Cemeteries Early Settlers; Mountain View; Seaside; South Blue Hill., 374-5458 |
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