Vienna 2025 Annual report and 2026 Warrant - Annual Town Meeting

The 2025 Annual report and 2026 Warrant for the town meeting can be seen here.

Voting will take place at the Community Center/Fire Station on Kimball Pond Road: Friday, March 13,  2026 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The annual meeting will be held there Saturday, March 14 at 9 a.m.

 

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Vienna Broadband Authority Fiber to the Home project.

Health Officer - Improve Air Quality For Breathing While Heating With Wood

Indoor Air Quality and Heating with Wood

Beth Tréhu, MD, Health Officer for Mount Vernon and Vienna

Jan 26, 2026

Brrr, baby it’s cold outside, and nothing is as nice as the heat from a wood stove! If you heat your home with wood and especially if anyone in your home has asthma, lung disease, or heart disease, you may find these suggestions from Maine CDC helpful.

What You Can Do To Improve Air Quality For Breathing While Heating With Wood

  • Weatherize your home, such as closing up areas that will let heat escape.
  • Have your chimney, flue, and woodstove inspected and cleaned at least once per year.
  • Use wood pellets. They burn 25-50% cleaner than cord wood.
  • Replace an old woodstove, fireplace, or fireplace insert (built before the late 1980s) with a newer more efficient EPA-certified equipment that uses less wood and burns up to 90% cleaner.
  • If using cord wood, burn hardwoods that are clean, dry, and seasoned (>6 months) because they burn cleaner and are less likely to pollute the air.
  • Never burn garbage, trash, plastics, styrofoam, paints, painted wood, salt water wood, cleaning chemicals such as solvents, charcoal/coal, or treated woods (treated with varnishes, sealants, or pressure-treated). These substances can result in toxins being burned and released into the air.
  • Burn small hot fires. They produce less smoke than those that are left to smolder.
  • Split wood into 4-6 inch pieces. Fires burn cleaner with more surface area exposed to the flame.
  • Keep your home tobacco smoke free.

 

Vienna Broadband - refer a customer and get a free month of service

Do you have Axiom Fiber? Did you know we have a refer a friend program? If you refer a friend they will get a Free Install ($299 savings) and as a current customer you will receive a Free Month of Service once they are installed and billed for the first month of service.

So refer away - there is no limit on the number of customers you can refer!

Just make sure when they call in to order they give us your name. CALL AXIOM to day 207-255-0679 opt 1.

Vienna Health Officer - Prevention of Lead Poisoning and Testing for Lead Dust

Prevention of Lead Poisoning and Testing for Lead Dust

Beth Tréhu, MD, Local Health Officer for Mount Vernon and Vienna

Dec 23, 2025

At a recent Muffin Morning, I was asked about how to know if children in a home are at risk for lead poisoning.  Here is some helpful information from the Maine CDC.

Free Lead Dust Tests

If you live in a home that was built before 1950 and you have young children or grandchildren or children on the way, Maine CDC offers free home lead dust test kits. Order a free home lead dust test kit. Watch our video to see how to do the test.

Preventing Lead Poisoning

Growing up in a healthy home is an important part of your child’s development. Test your child and your home for lead to prevent lead poisoning. A tiny amount of lead dust can harm a young child. Children are more likely to be harmed by lead because their bodies and brains are still growing. Lead can cause behavior problems, learning disabilities, hearing damage, speech delays, and lower intelligence. Most young children with lead poisoning do not look or act sick. The only way to tell for sure if your child has lead poisoning is to have their blood tested. Talk to your child’s doctor about a blood lead test for your child. Maine requires all children be tested at 1 and 2 years of age.

Home and Property Owners

Dust from lead paint is the most common cause of lead poisoning in Maine. Lead dust falls on the floors where children crawl and play with toys. Children often put their hands and toys into their mouths. This makes it very easy for lead dust to get into and damage their growing bodies. If your home was built before 1950 it is very likely that it contains lead paint. Any building built before 1978 may have lead paint. Learn more about protecting your child from lead in your home (PDF).

Renovate, Repair or Paint Your Home

Any renovation, repair, or painting (RRP) project in a pre-1978 home or building can easily create dangerous lead dust. EPA requires that RRP projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, childcare facilities and preschools built before 1978 be performed by lead-safe certified contractors. Generally, EPA’s Lead RRP rule does not apply to homeowners doing RRP projects in their own homes. However, it does apply if you rent all or part of your home, operate a childcare center in your home or if you buy, renovate, and sell homes for profit.

 

Planning Board Meeting - October 22, 2025

MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE VIENNA

PLANNING BOARD HELD OCTOBER 22, 2025

The meeting convened at 7:00 PM at the Town House; regular members present were Waine Whittier, Creston Gaither, Ed Lawless, and Tim Bickford; alternate member Steve Trehu was also present; he was made a voting member in Alan Williams’ absence. Minutes of the September 24 meeting were read and accepted. It was noted that the revegetation plan described therein must be submitted to the Planning Board.

Mark Rains appeared and outlined some possible divisional lotting of his home property. The Subdivision Ordinance dimensional requirements were briefly reviewed, and requirements for subdivision approval were outlined. No formal action was taken. Mark left at 7:35 PM.

Greg Stewart has talked to Waine about a septic system on Lot 11 Herrin Woods subdivision. Waine advised him that it’s a State law matter and that Plumbing Inspector Erin Quimby could better advise him. Waine told him that it may be a very steep lot and that he should study the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance regarding its “buildability.”

Thomas Potter’s October 18 email inquiry regarding timber harvesting on his Tower Road parcel was discussed. It was agreed that email responses correctly informed him that he will not need a permit from the Town but that there may be a State permitting requirement.

Waine would like the Board to discuss the importance of advising applicants that no one member can speak for the Board.

Waine met with the selectmen  and they have enacted the 180-day extension we need for the solar systems ordinance. He told them we’d like to have the ordinance ready for the March town meeting and to hold a public hearing for it before then.

Habitation has been noticed on the southerly end of the lot shown on tax map 6 as lot 5; evidently the selectmen signed CMP’s Form 1190 for the occupants.

It was agreed to cancel the Board’s scheduled November and December meetings in view of the holidays and to hold a “make-up” meeting on December 10 & to hold a public hearing on the solar ordinance that night. Creston will advertise this.

Waine said that Lidie Robbins met with the Swifts (see September minutes) on behalf of 30 Mile River Watershed Association ; she said it was a friendly meeting and that she gave them the name of a professional who could do the required revegetation plan.

The meeting adjourned at 8:20 PM.

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Planning Board has cancelled regular meetings for November and December

The Vienna Planning Board has cancelled its regularly scheduled meetings for November and December, in view of the holidays. However, the Board will hold an extra meeting on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:00 PM at the Town House to offset these cancellations.
 

Note also that the Dec. 10 meeting will serve as a PUBLIC HEARING on the proposed
COMMERCIAL SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ORDINANCE
on which the Board has been working.

--Creston Gaither, Secretary, Vienna Planning Board

 

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