WOODSTOCK — Jack Richardson’s collection of FBI fliers as a boy led to a 20-year career chasing criminals and checking the backgrounds of high-level government employees, he told listeners Thursday at the Whitman Memorial Library. “When I was young, and my parents owned an inn in New Hampshire, we would receive fliers from the FBI […]
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Emergency responders learn to ID meth labs
PARIS — “These are a problem. These are dangerous. These are going to get people killed,” Matt Cashman said, holding up two innocent-looking plastic soda bottles, one with a plastic tube sticking out the end. Cashman, a supervisor with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, was starting a two-hour presentation on the risks of responding to possible methamphetamine labs to […]
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Paris-based modular home manufacturer purchased by Minnesota company
PARIS — Local modular home company KBS Building Solutions has been purchased by a Minnesota-based manufacturer in a deal reportedly worth $10.5 million. Aetrium, a publicly-traded company based in St. Paul, Minn., announced the purchase from private owner Robert Farnum in a news release last week. The company is part of the global semiconductor industry. “Aetrium […]
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Buckfield students produce maple syrup at school
BUCKFIELD — Buckets hang from 20 maple trees, steam rises from a sap house and sleds full of five-gallon pails are ready to be filled. It looks like a small farm maple syrup operation, similar to many in Western Maine, but it’s not. This operation is being done by students at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School […]
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SAD 17 lowers average local assessment increase
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Budget Committee has reduced the expected average increase in the local assessment for 2014-15 from 4.5 percent to 3.99 percent. “We got our final rate increase for health insurance, and it was 7.5 percent,” Business Manager Cathy Fanjoy Coffey said. “We had budgeted 9.5 percent. We used that savings to […]
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West Paris salt storage building dangerous, official says
WEST PARIS — The town probably will need to tear down a storage building on Kingsbury Street that has become dangerous, Town Manager John White advised selectmen Thursday. The small building is used to store road salt, White said. It is one of two town buildings at the western end of Kingsbury Street. Selectmen Wade […]
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Additional $24 million needed for Oxford sewer project
OXFORD — A pending application for nearly $24 million in federal funding will determine whether the town expands sewer system construction into residential areas. In an application sent to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Office last week, the town is seeking $23,890,000 in funding to lay sewer pipes into rural areas. The […]
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Norway budget will cover major needs in town
NORWAY — For town government, Spring means one thing: budget season. Last Thursday, Norway Town Manager David Holt presented the Norway Selectboard with the town budget for the upcoming fiscal year. “We know it’s April because here we are looking at the budget,” Holt began. He informed the board that Mainers were given a slight […]
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Problems arise as snow turns to mud in Norway
NORWAY — It’s mud season once again, and Norway is no exception to the melting snow which turns to sticky, thick mud that tries to keep cars from traveling down dirt roads. Currently, Roberts Road is the biggest risk in Norway. Because of the amount of snow that has turned to mud, the road has […]