PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 243 calls from July 20 to 27. Among them were: * At 2:16 p.m. July 26, a deputy was requested to go to the Denmark Road in Brownfield in the area of the green bridge for people target practicing. The caller wanted them to stop shooting their […]
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Registration for wife-carrying competition at Sunday River opens Aug. 3
NEWRY — Registration for the 16th annual North American Wife Carrying Competition will officially open on Monday, Aug. 3, Sunday River employee Karolyn Castaldo said Monday afternoon. The competition is scheduled to take place on Oct. 10 at Sunday River Ski Resort as part of their Fall Festival. Castaldo said that although the competition takes […]
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Bryant Pond primitive camps teach ‘life changing’ skills
BRYANT POND — Dressed in black and sporting several stud earrings and a narrow, black-lace neck choker, 15-year-old Sage Webber looked like anything but a primitive Maine woodswoman Thursday morning at Split Rock Campsite atop Mount Christopher. Until, that is, you looked down at the Cape Neddick girl’s feet and saw her black-polished toenails and […]
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DOE rejects ending Newry withdrawal negotiations
NEWRY — The Commissioner of Education said in a letter last week to SAD 44 that he does not have the authority to suspend the Newry withdrawal negotiations, as the school board had requested. The board asked for the suspension in order to pursue forming a districtwide committee to craft a local school funding formula […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Oxford County Sheriff’s Office calls
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 273 calls from July 13 to 19. Among them were: * At 7:24 p.m. July 19, an unknown cellphone caller made a 911 hang-up call, telling police that a male was injured in a dirt-bike crash in the area of Valley Road. Deputy Richard Murray checked […]
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Effort to open Casablanca ends
BETHEL — A state law that would require more bathroom stalls in the Casablanca Cinema has ended an effort to reopen it, said Courtney Bennett of Bethel. Bennett and her husband, Mike, have been working since March to reopen the four-theater facility at Bethel Station. It closed in 2012. The cinema first opened in 1994, […]
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Newry board OKs contract with Bridgton animal shelter
NEWRY — Selectmen on Tuesday night signed a contract with the Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Bridgton and approved insurance coverage for volunteers who serve the town’s needs. Deputy Town Clerk Kelly Scott said Thursday that Newry’s animal control officer, Sue Milligan, takes stray or lost dogs to the Bridgton shelter. That’s why they contract […]
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Cheryl Lang named principal at Telstar High School
BETHEL — The School Administrative District 44 board of directors unanimously approved Superintendent David Murphy’s nomination of Cheryl Lang as the new principal of Telstar Regional High School. Lang, who was hired last year as the high school dean of students, replaces Ann Bell, who left the district after one year to become the assistant […]
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Rain doesn’t deter fans from New England Forest Rally racers in Newry
NEWRY — Five-year-old Kaleb Voter of Dixfield was thrilled beyond belief early Saturday morning when his parents took the youngster and his brother to the New England Forest Rally’s Parc Expose at Sunday River Ski Resort. Kaleb said he wants to race rally cars when he grows just like his rally racing heroes, Travis Pastrana […]