PARIS – The Oxford Hills Trail Committee will meet today from 9 a.m. to noon to help celebrate National Trails Day.
It could use some help.
Anyone interested in helping to clean up area trails can meet committee members at the Western Maine College Center near the high school in Paris at 9 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves, rakes and trimmers, according to organizers.
The local trails committee received a grant from the state Bureau of Parks and Land to help pay for maps and signs for the trails. The committee also received technical assistance from the National Park Service.
The railroad trail, starting at the proposed skateboard park, as well as the Oxford Hills High School Trail, will be the primary focus of the cleanup effort.
Ken Morse, a volunteer with the Healthy Oxford Hills initiative, said this week that his main objective is to get the message out to the general public that there are some private walking trails in the area that people can use free of charge.
The committee plans to use part of its state grant toward that goal by visiting local groups and events to get the message out.
The group hopes to expand the trail system in the next few years to include the area near Penn Stream after a cleanup. Morse said he thinks that area, behind downtown Norway, would be a nice place to canoe or kayak.
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