New event venue is looking to host fun and special-themed gatherings.
2023
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Helping Hands Food Pantry resumes regular operations at new home
OXFORD — Helping Hands Food Pantry is starting out 2023 with a welcome message to its clients: there will be no disruption to its services. The pantry has settled in at its new location at Oxford’s Congregational Church UCC at 252 King Street and will be open today, and again on Jan. 19, from 11:30 […]
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Agnes Gray weathers internal storm over the holidays
Despite water damage from frozen pipes, the West Paris school was able to open as planned Jan. 3.
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Oxford Hills 2022: The year in review (part II)
Sports championships. Local restaurants closing while new ones open. A school district mired in dysfunction. Local faces sharing big dreams. Community stalwarts departing public life. And puppies! Oxford Hills headlines from 2022, part II, below: July Popular Norway restaurant Smokin’ Dave’s Backyard BBQ Grill announced that the building it had operated from on Main Street […]
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Going green after death
Emily Ecker and Monica Mann are asking the Woodstock Cemetery Committee for a Green Burial space in town.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Bethel ice rink expands
“So many kids learned how to skate last year, and at the end of the season watching all those kids do laps around the smaller rink, the rec board was determined to make it a little bigger and give it a little more elbow room,” said Recreation Board Director Mary Scanlon.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Faith drives Mollyockett owner to provide ‘home’ to those in need
WOODSTOCK — Tim Buck and his wife Fran, own the Mollyockett Motel on Route 26. Some of the people who stay at the motel have been displaced from Rumford and other area towns and cities. Buck gives people in need the sanctuary they need because his faith compels him to help those he can. Motel […]
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News
Greene man missing since Monday
Adam McAllister of Greene is still missing, officials say. He expressed interest in going ice fishing on Monday, the day he was last seen.
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More parking at Upper Range Pond boat ramp may take several years
POLAND — There is room for additional parking near the Upper Range Pond boat ramp on Range Hill Road, but it could take several years for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife to design and engineer a plan before it could be built. Diano Circo, chief planner for inland fisheries, told the Select […]
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Former Brunswick councilor pleads not guilty to child porn charges
An attorney representing Christopher Watkinson claimed Wednesday that the former Brunswick town councilor had accidentally accessed three explicit images in June 2021 and intended to turn them over to authorities.