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Stories about Woodstock

N. Willard: Support love, not hate

We have heard it before and here it is again: Paul Madore insists that because gays are asking for equal rights they are requesting “special treatment.” If others already have the right to marry, how can it be considered “special” to request that same right? ... 22

Nancy Willard • Letters • Tuesday, May 22, 2012

SAD 44 proposed budget moves to vote

 BETHEL — The SAD 44 board signed the 2012-13 budget warrant Monday night and set the first of two votes for 7 p.m. May 29 at the Helen C. Berry Auditorium at Telstar High School....

Eileen M. Adams, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Thursday, May 17, 2012

SAD 44 board adopts a $10 million school budget proposal

BETHEL — The SAD 44 board unanimously adopted proposed 2012-13 operating budgets of $9,989,269 for general education and $157,866 for adult and a community education Monday night.

Eileen M. Adams, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Thursday, May 10, 2012

Woodstock man sentenced for stealing, burning car

PARIS — A Woodstock man will serve a year and 90 days for his role in stealing and setting fire to a car in West Paris last year. Carl Richard Lang, 22, pleaded guilty to theft, burglary of a motor vehicle and aggravated criminal mischief Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court. He'l...

Tony Reaves, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Much loved Woodstock Elementary School secretary to retire

WOODSTOCK — Queda Billings believes she was put on this earth for a reason. One of those reasons may be the comfort, ... 1

Eileen M. Adams, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Friday, May 4, 2012

Fans say goodbye: Wake held for Levon Helm at musician’s Woodstock home

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — There was a reunion, of sorts, at Woodstock on Thurs­­day. Musicians, friends and fans gathered in the board-and-batten barn where Levon Helm staged his Midnight Ramble concerts to remember the influential singer and drummer for The Band, who died of throat ...

Mary Esch, Associated Press • Nation • Friday, April 27, 2012

Proposed SAD 44 budget up 2.69 percent

BETHEL — The SAD 44 Finance Committee presented the full board Monday with a proposed $9.98 million budget that is $261,969 more than this fiscal year. The 2012-13 spending plan is 2.69 percent higher than this year,  Superintendent David Murphy said. There is addition state aid...

Eileen M. Adams, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Wednesday, April 25, 2012

N. Willard: Showing no compassion

It is obvious that Gov. Paul LePage has a narrow-minded and exclusive focus on business to the exclusion of history. The labor murals that tell the story of the struggles of men working 10 hours and six days per week, the children in sweatshops, the farmers, the fishermen, the Rosie the Riveters ...

Nancy Willard • Letters • Thursday, April 5, 2012

Leaking pipe cancels school in Woodstock

WOODSTOCK — Children who attend the elementary school had an extra day to play outside in the warm sunshine Monday because of a leaking water pipe in the school's library. SAD 44 Superintendent David Murphy said the leak was noticed late Sunday afternoon by a group of local basketbal...

Eileen M. Adams, Staff Writer • Oxford Hills • Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Woodstock man sentenced in burglaries

PARIS — A man who pleaded guilty to burglaries in Andover and Milton Plantation was sentenced to three years with all but nine months suspended and two years of probation Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court. Scott B. Billings Jr., 20, of Woodstock was charged with breaking into a...

Staff report • Oxford Hills • Thursday, March 15, 2012

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