By Matthew Daigle PARIS — The Planning Board voted Tuesday, May 24, to approve a permit application to demolish the existing McDonald’s restaurant on 118 Main Street and construct a new McDonald’s restaurant in the adjacent lot. Code Enforcement Officer Fred Collins Jr. said that the Planning Board reviewed the permit application at their May 24 […]
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Oxford Hills middle schoolers take active role in community
By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD — A group of Oxford Hills Middle School students are on a quest to support the community-at-large and their own school. Thirty-four students from Michele Wood’s and Erica Rogers’ classes at the South Campus have been planning a huge community yard sale and vendor event plus a community dinner to raise […]
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After saving 10, Oxford County’s Project SaveMe needs some financial help
PARIS — Patricia Plummer credits the Paris Police Department with helping her son get on the road to recovery for his heroin addiction through Project SaveME. Two upcoming fundraisers will assist the program in helping Oxford County residents overcome their drug dependence. She shared during a recent roundtable with U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, that her […]
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The good earth … Maisey Griffin is helping people eat
NORWAY — During high school, Maisey Griffin loved having her hands in the dirt and a field trip to Portland’s Preble Street Resource Center inspired her to continue to grow food and do something about hunger in western Maine. Now the 20-year-old Oxford resident works at Healthy Oxford Hills in Norway through the AmeriCorps VISTA program […]
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Oxford Hills thief would have been given food if needed
By A.M. Sheehan NORWAY — In a twist of irony, someone stole all the meals for the Progress Center’s Feel Better Food program March 10. Food that, had they asked, would have been given to them. It is Thursday evening – time for the Progress Center’s weekly community meal which is open to anyone needing a meal. […]
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Gardeners growing and giving in Paris
GIVING GARDEN — With spring just around the corner and plants and animals beginning to come out of hibernation, a unused lot along Park Street in Paris will soon buzz with activity as it’s slated to become a garden to feed area senior citizens and lower income families. The recently formed nonprofit Gardeners Growing Healthy Communities […]
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Food fodder: Garbage for the greater good in Norway and Paris
NORWAY/PARIS — Residents in Norway and Paris now have another way to reduce, reuse and recycle – this time by the way of their food scraps. Roughly three weeks ago, Norway/Paris Solid Waste began offering composting to residents at the Brown Street transfer station through We Compost It! free of charge. Two 35-gallon green plastic bins […]
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Energy savings everywhere at Fare Share in Norway
NORWAY — Those walking into Fare Share Co-op may have noticed some changes inside the all-natural grocery store as stakeholders head toward long-term goal of reaching net zero energy consumption for its building. Right now they’re in the middle of the second phase of a three-phase energy efficiency project to bring the building, situated on Main […]
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SAD 17 and RSU 10, 44 looking for local produce through Norway pilot program
NORWAY — Farmers are one step closer to getting their produce into local schools and businesses as the Oxford Hills Micro Distribution program continues to gain momentum. Farmers and buyers met at Norway’s Center for an Ecology-Based Economy on Jan. 20 to work out more of the logistics for the pilot program that has been nearly […]
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Forever young: High View Farm in Harrison to remain farmland for good
HARRISON — As a way to keep small, family farms alive, High View Farm owners Bill and Darcy Winslow have taken a major step to ensure their land will always remain an operational farm. In November, the Harrison-based dairy farm on Leander Harmon Road earned the designation of a Forever Farm through the Maine Farmland Trust […]