Current Events: Louis Braille

A boy in France created a way for blind people to read and write. The boy’s name was Louis Braille (loo-ee brayl). He was blind, having lost his sight in a childhood accident.The system he created uses small raised bumps to represent letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation marks. By feeling the bumps with […]

Do You Have Room in Your Heart?

Happy New Year! Fern here. I came to the shelter last April, and then I was adopted for a few months. During that time we all discovered that I do not care for tiny humans so now I’m back at the shelter. Big and medium humans are ok, I just don’t care for the tiny […]

Heywood Club donates to food pantry

Mad Science’s Holiday Spectacular postponed

PARIS — The Mad Science Holiday Spectacular program, sponsored by the public libraries of the Oxford Hills, was postponed to Saturday, Dec. 31 at 11 p.m., due to the weather and a power outage, on the original date. The program is being held at the Deering Memorial Community Center, located at 39 Main Street in […]

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Word of the Week

Current Events: Stephen Foster

If you lived in the United States in 1855, Stephen Foster would probably be your favorite songwriter. His melodies were beautiful and his lyrics matched the music so well, people loved his songs. In fact, many of his works are still sung today, more than 160 years after they were first written.Some of Stephen’s songs […]

Burst pipe damages Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris

A sprinkler system pipe had burst and flooded the cafeteria and gym.

Word of the Week

Resolution(rez-oh-LOO-shun)A firm decision to do something or meet some goal.Jamie made a resolution to learn to juggle.

To the Editor: Within these last couple of months I have witnessed some SAD 17 School Board members not following the Director’s Code of Conduct and choosing to make decisions that are impacting the function and integrity of our SAD 17 School Board. That Code of Conduct is important to how the board operates and […]