PARIS — After a lengthy discussion at their last meeting, selectmen will continue to discuss and research recreational marijuana and its effects locally at their next meeting on Monday, Aug. 14. At the Monday, July 24 Paris selectmen’s meeting, longtime medical marijuana caregiver and horticultural consultant Rick Jackson gave an update on the state’s progress in […]

NORWAY — Nonprofits and area churches have teamed up to help keep Oxford Hills residents warmer this winter. There is still time to sign up for the low-cost, energy-saving reusable window insert program, which is in its second phase and is a partnership between Norway’s Center for Ecology-Based Economy and Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish. Last […]

WOODSTOCK — “When you have something, when it hits it, and it makes that really weird noise like that, that’s when you know it’s right on the surface,” Heidi Inman tells me as she helps sweep my metal detector over the ground as it beeps, signifying there is metal just under the dirt. It’s a hazy […]

PARIS — The expansion plans at the Oxford County Courthouse complex can continue to move forward after the Planning Board gave approval for the multi-million project, which is estimated to be complete by summer 2019. The primarily state-funded project was given the green light at the Tuesday, July 11 Paris Planning Board meeting. It includes erecting […]

PARIS — For the second time in less than a month, the Teamsters Local 340 is filing a complaint against the town of Paris with the Maine Labor Relations Board. This time it is a bad faith bargaining complaint regarding the per diem firefighters union, according to Lorne Smith, Teamsters Local 340 secretary-treasurer and the […]

NORWAY — The United Way of Oxford County is offering free summer lunch for kids up to the age of 18 Monday through Friday at Longley Square on Main Street in Norway from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In addition to the Norway site, meals are also being offered in Oxford at Oxford Regency Mobile Home […]

PARIS — After feeling blindsided by the roughly $145,000 cut from the Paris Fire Department at annual town meeting, Budget Committee member Richard Merz is circulating a petition to revisit the issue at a special town meeting. Merz needs to collect 245 signatures for his special town meeting petition, according to Paris Town Clerk Liz Knox. […]

By Matthew Daigle NORWAY — Grover Gundrilling LLC announced that it would be closing its Norway plant on Aldrich Avenue, resulting in the layoff of an indeterminate number of people. The company announced in a June press release that the closing of the Norway plant was a “strategic restructuring” and was “designed to streamline operations […]