RUMFORD — The new circulation desk at the Rumford Public Library is a “godsend” for the staff, Circulation Supervisor Christy Bates said Tuesday. “It helps us serve the public faster and more efficiently, absolutely more efficiently,” she said. “It was just a godsend,” she said. With thousands of materials from all over the state of […]
2019
Posted inLocal Sports
Auto racing: Oxford dragway to open in 2019 under new leadership
Sun Journal file photo from the 2014 Show Shine & Drag event at the Oxford Dragway. (SUN JOURNAL FILE PHOTO BY RUSS DILLINGHAM) Late in 2018, Oxford Plains Dragway announced that it wouldn’t be reopening in 2019, but then the New Year came and plans changed. So did the track’s leadership. Les Williams, who owns […]
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Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Budget talks to begin in Jay
JAY — Selectpersons have scheduled a workshop for next week to discuss a draft of the $5.36 million municipal budget for 2019-20. The workshop is set for 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Town Office. Once selectpersons finalize the proposed budget, residents are scheduled to vote on it April 23 at the annual town meeting at the Community […]
Posted inPolitics
Debate brews over splitting Maine’s agriculture, conservation department
Some interest groups who represent farmers and conservationists want to break up the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, but Gov. Janet Mills has reservations.
Posted inOxford Hills
Commissioners approve $7,300 purchase for Sheriff's Office furniture
PARIS – The Oxford County Commissioners voted 3-0 on Tuesday morning to authorize the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office to spend up to $7,300 on office furniture for the department. Sheriff Chris Wainwright said the department has about $11,000 in its drug forfeiture account, and he feels replacing the department’s office furniture would be a good […]
Posted inBusiness
Hannaford to open second Brunswick store
The planned location at Cooks Corner Shopping Mall would employ roughly 150 workers.
Posted inOxford Hills
24-year-old man killed in Buckfield collision on Route 117
BUCKFIELD — A 24-year-old man died Wednesday night when his Volkswagen Beetle crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a Ford F-150 hauling a trailer on Route 117, police said. A 55-year-old woman driving the truck was taken to the hospital as a precaution for injuries that were not life-threatening, Maine Department of Public Safety […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Lewiston police investigate man’s stabbing
LEWISTON — A local man sustained stab wounds to his chest and abdomen Tuesday night at an apartment somewhere on Pine Street. Police said Matthew Gammon, 36, was in a St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center parking lot and reported he was stabbed during a fight shortly before 11 p.m. He was taken to Central Maine Medical […]
Posted inNation / World
Fractured polar vortex means more winter mayhem for eastern U.S.
The swirling winds tens of thousands of feet high in the sky above the Arctic — the dreaded polar vortex — broke apart into three parts to ring in 2019. Now the eastern half of the United States is about to feel the consequences. Weather models project the onset of a severe and punishing winter […]