By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — SAD 17 officials will reapply for state funding to construct a new middle school and file a new application for funding to construct a new elementary school to replace Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said. The state Department of Education announced last month that a […]
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Oxford Hills Ukulele Group is strummin’ the strings, singin’ the songs
OXFORD HILLS — What started out as a joke for one couple blossomed into an adventure that now brings the Oxford Hills alive with the sound of music – ukulele music that is. So how did this unique instrument that resembles a miniature guitar, yet is so versatile, according to players, bring happiness and friendship to […]
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Walking for peace through Maine
NORWAY — They don their walking shoes and continue walking with a purpose – to Stop the War$ on Mother Earth – and, more specifically, environmental issues affecting Maine and its inhabitants. Roughly 20 participants in the fifth annual Maine Peace Walk make a noisy, yet peaceful entrance as they walk along Main Street in downtown […]
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Student organizes Dryland 5K to benefit Oxford Hills ski team
NORWAY — Morgen Ray hopes that people will join him in pounding the dirt trails during the Dryland 5K he organized at Roberts Farm Preserve – the same place he practices skiing during the winter. The race is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the preserve, at 64 Roberts Road in Norway. Registration […]
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Help wanted carving pumpkins at McLaughlin Garden in Paris!
PARIS — Calling all pumpkin carvers! The McLaughlin Garden and Homestead needs help carving roughly 600 pumpkins for the 2016 edition of the Jack O’Lantern Spectacular. On Monday, Oct. 17, volunteers will head to Slattery’s Farm in West Minot – one of the event’s sponsors – to pick the gourds for the annual event, said […]
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Restoring Norway, one brick at a time
By Leslie H. Dixon NORWAY — A local mason is on a mission to restore Main Street brick by brick. Tim Presby of Presby Masonry & Roofing in West Pairs said he was asked to make a few repairs on two sets of brick steps leading up the 1894 George Austin House at 292 Main […]
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Wings to the mind, flight to the imagination … music at Oxford Elementary
By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD — “It’s music to my ears,” exclaimed instrumental teacher Rachel Potter as a small group of fifth-grade students picked up their clarinets and blew varying sounds and squeals during a music lesson at Oxford Elementary School. The budding musicians are some of the 50 or so students who Potter instructs one […]
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Halloween fun abounds in the Oxford Hills
OXFORD HILLS — The Oxford Hills will echo with spooks and goblins and pumpkins and treats on Friday, Oct. 28, as the annual Norway Halloween Festival and Moore Park Halloween Party attract young and old from near and far. Paris After a smashing success in 2015 (and not pumpkin smashing, mind you,) the More at […]
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Companions, friends — both benefit from Senior Companion program
By A.M. Sheehan COUNTY — Dee Farr has battled disabilities all her life and never felt disabled. The 55-year-old Oxford resident had lived with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since she was 8 years old and, she says, always had mobility issues. Then in her teens, she began to live with retinitis pigmentosa – inherited diseases causing retinal degeneration – which, she explains, […]
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Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce Community, business expo will have festival atmosphere
PARIS — As a way to draw in members from the entire Oxford Hills community – kids and all – the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce has revamped its annual Business Showcase to give it a festival-like atmosphere and make it a more family friendly event. Now dubbed the Business and Community Expo, it will […]