OXFORD — Major changes across the Oxford Hills School District in 2010-11, including staff and budget cuts, may have played a significant role in the district's statewide tests results, which were released this week. Curriculum Director Kathy Elkins said Wednesday that the New Englan...
The story “Teen hides from burglar” in Wednesday's Sun Journal should have stated that the officer who arrested suspect Harry H. Lamb was James Richardson. Richardson was also the officer who found the girl hiding from the suspect. It was a reporting error....
A Dodge Durango, driven by Jayson Nelson, 35, of Hebron, and a logging truck driven by Alan Wilson, 51, of Hebron, collided on Station Road in Hebron at around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. Wilson was backing the truck out of a driveway, Oxford County Cpl. Brian Landis said. Nelson was taken to Central M...
Sophie Fickett, 3, of Paris, left, and her friend Evey Hall, 3, of Woodstock were pushed in a chair across the Norway ice rink on Wednesday afternoon by Kelsey Danforth. The pair were joined by Sophie's sister Abby, not pictured. Children from throughout the area use the ice rink for after-school...
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen received good news Tuesday night on the recently completed town audit for fiscal year 2010-11. “You’ve improved financially. You’re rock solid,” auditor Ron Smith of the Buxton firm of HRH Smith and Co. told the board. He said the ...
HARTFORD — A local man who was arrested Monday on a Massachusetts warrant for indecent assault on a minor was held on $5,000 cash bail Wednesday at the Oxford County Jail. Jonathan H. Hare, 28, of 645 Town Farm Road, appeared in 11th District Court in South Paris on Wednesday. He wai...
PARIS — A man charged with breaking into an Oxford home Monday will be held without bail until an agent can take him back to New York to answer charges there. Harry H. Lamb, 47, of Canastota, N.Y., had to waive an extradition hearing as part of his parole conditions, according to Ass...
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: * Jonathan H. Hare, 28, of Hartford, Feb. 6, fugitive from justice on Massachusetts warrant, Oxford County Sheriff's Office. * Matthew J. Lajoie, 27, of Porter, Feb. 6, domestic violence assault, criminal mis...
OXFORD — A 17-year-old girl who locked herself in a bathroom and called the police when a man broke into her house did everything right, according to the Oxford police officer who arrested the man Monday. Harry H. Lamb, 47, of Canastota, N.Y., was charged with burglary, criminal misc...
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen on Tuesday decided to put off developing criteria for filling the town manager position until a special public hearing is held next week. Former Town Manager Glenn Holmes left his longtime managerial position in January, and the board hasn’t yet decided wh...
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: * Mary Jo Kennett, 56, of Bethel, Feb. 3, telephone harassment, $500 unsecured bond, Oxford County Sheriff's Office. * William G. Littlefield, 34, of Rockland, Feb. 3, failure to pay fines and probation viola...
OXFORD — Online job listings asking for casino workers to come to Maine have rankled some, who say The Oxford Casino is putting out-of-state people ahead of Mainers. The Oxford Casino says experienced casino workers will be needed to train people who haven't worked in gambling houses...
PARIS — The Board of Selectmen is considering legal action against a landowner who has asserted that he can block certain uses of a right-of-way through his land. At a special meeting Monday night, board members discussed whether they should direct law firm Bernstein Shur to look int...
PARIS — Four people were charged with furnishing alcohol to minors over the weekend. In Oxford on Sunday morning, Jody L. Hall, 47, of 216 Whittemore Road was charged with furnishing liquor to minors, furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol and violation of bail condition. S...
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen has voted unanimously to hold a “dangerous building" public hearing in an attempt to remove tenants from a downtown apartment building that officials say is a fire hazard. “We can't leave these tenants there,” Code Enforcement Officer...
OTISFIELD — A sewing and craft group has been formed in town. The group meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon. Interested participants are asked to bring their knitting, mending, quilting, sewing or craft project, or just come for the company or ...
BUCKFIELD — Kay Herbert has enjoyed watching students go on to careers in teaching, nursing and other medical professions, physical therapy and engineering. During her 27-year science-teaching career, she has seen hundreds pass through the doors of Dirigo High School and Buckfield Ju...
BUCKFIELD — Hallie Starbird wants to become a surgeon someday so she decided Friday that a good first step was signing up for the certified nurses assistant/allied health program offered by the Region 11 vocational school. Scott Wheelie isn’t sure what he wants to do when he ge...
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