The actress is celebrated as much for her animal rights social justice activism as her 80+ year television career.
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.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Science spotlight shines on Harrison Elementary’s Rob Ripley
Educated within Oxford Hills schools, the pupil is now the teacher.
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, News, Oxford Hills
Woman spends 19 years paying it forward with random acts of kindness
Rita Durgin has performed hundreds of small acts to friends, co-workers and strangers since her 30th birthday.
Posted inOxford Hills, Schools & Education
SAD 17 superintendent responds to union complaints after no-confidence vote
The Oxford Hills Education Association addressed the school board Tuesday in Paris.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, Schools & Education
Tensions erupt at SAD 17 board meeting over no-confidence vote of superintendent
Teachers union lists complaints against Monica Henson, six months after she started the job.
Posted inNews, Oxford Hills
Paris Hill Road home is a total loss; beagle dies in Thursday morning fire
Firefighters asked for personnel and tankers to help battle the Paris blaze.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Forty years in, Paris Cape Historical Society keeps collecting history
Curator Ben Conant has been gathering and overseeing a vast array of materials for decades.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
School athletic teams making winter their season
To date, Oxford Hills has not had to cancel any games or meets because of COVID this season, even with cases rising all around its teams.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
SAD 17’s COVID numbers climbing by the hour
For now, the school district is so overloaded with positive cases and contract tracing it has abandoned reporting student quarantines on its website.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Oxford selectmen OK bid to design town office building
Town Manager Adam Garland is looking into renting a portable building.