Butch Asselin has been in public service for 45 years.
Nicole Carter
Staff Writer
Nicole joined Sun Journal’s Western Maine Weeklies group in 2019 as a staff writer for the Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser. Later she moved over to the Advertiser Democrat where she covers Oxford Hills communities and School Administrative District 17. She seizes every opportunity to research and write about local history and she enjoys writing features that leave readers with a smile. Nicole graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Maine with a B.A. in history and concentration in creative writing. She held audience development and marketing positions at several Maine-based trade media companies in the Portland area before taking on community news. When not working she is an avid reader and fiber artist and enjoys observing local wildlife, from snakes and blue frogs to large game and carnivores. She and her husband, Greg, share their secluded homestead in Peru with an assortment of cats, dogs, alpacas and chickens.
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Summertime blues: Festivals, community programs COVID-19 casualties
Some events and programs have been cancelled, some are up in the air. A few are forging ahead.
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Oxford Hills principals make special delivery to high school seniors
With assistant principals Laurie Catanese and John Springer riding shotgun, OHCHS principal Ted Moccia drives to every graduating senior’s house to deliver their cap and gown.
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Oxford Hills alum honored with recreation leadership award
BRIDGTON — Gary Colello, a 2005 graduate of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School and former resident of South Paris and Otisfield, was recently named the Maine Recreation and Parks Association announces the 2020 “Dr. Bill Eckart” Young Professional Award winner. The award is named for Dr. William Eckart, a former professor of recreational management at […]
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Oxford Hills town office openings vary
Face coverings and social distancing required by most.
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Alan Day Community Garden expands across town
NORWAY — With uncertainty threatening large-scale food producers during the coronovirus pandemic, communities like Norway are looking for ways to localize supply. The Alan Day Community Garden (ADCG), starting its 11th season of leasing out vegetable plots, recently began looking for ways to ramp up its own farmers’ market production. It did not have to […]
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Restroom at Lake Pennessewassee Park vandalized
NORWAY — Spring exposed an unwelcome surprise at Lake Pennesseewassee Park. Norway town officials discovered that over the winter someone had vandalized the park outhouse. Trash and human waste were stuffed down the toilet and strewn through the bathroom. Obscenities were scribbled across the inside and outside walls. “We don’t do park maintenance in the […]
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Stephens Memorial Hospital to restart healthcare procedures
SMH is ready to provide non-critical procedures two months after COVID-19 hit Oxford Hills.
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SAD 17 builds digital time capsule while in distance learning
PARIS — SAD 17 has customized a new educational unit for students to work through with their families while they continue distance learning through the end of the 2019-20 school year. The unit has been named “History in the Hills.” It gives students a way to record the history of how their communities were impacted […]
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Oxford approves town meeting warrants, waits to schedule
OXFORD — Selectmen approved two additional articles for the annual meeting warrant Thursday before signing off on the completed document. The board authorized Town Manager Butch Asselin to write a letter to Gov. Janet Mills to ask that town meetings be considered essential and therefore might be held before September. According to the state’s social […]