A Norway woman was killed Saturday afternoon on Pennesseewassee Lake after being thrown from her snowmobile and being struck by a second snowmobile, according to the Maine Warden Service.
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Citizens’ group, Central Maine Healthcare present their views of Bridgton Hospital’s future
The Pondicherry Group and Central Maine Healthcare offer the public competing visions for the future of health care in the Lakes Region.
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Car catches fire in Norway
A car in Norway caught fire around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
This week's agenda
Monday Hebron: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen and Board of Assessors, 6 p.m., Town Office Paris: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Fire Department Auxiliary, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Economic Development Committee, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Selectmen, 6:30 […]
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Former Paris man sentenced to five years in prison on arson charge
PARIS — A Paris man arrested in 2017 after setting fire to a building owned by the Dead River Co. was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to five years in prison and three years of supervised release. Daniel Thompson, 21, also known as Daniel Walker, was charged with arson and damaging property used in […]
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Former schoolhouse ‘up for grabs’ in Norway
NORWAY — The town is looking for ideas to reuse the former Streaked Mountain School building on lower Main Street. “We don’t really want to list it for sale,” Town Manager Dennis Lajoie said. Last September, the SAD 17 board of directors declared the school building at 160 Main St. “unnecessary for educational purposes” and […]
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Pregnant woman killed in Greenwood crash
Elizabeth Abelson of Gloucester, Mass., died Saturday after losing control on a trail in Oxford County.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Group wants Central Maine Healthcare to leave Bridgton Hospital
BRIDGTON — A citizens’ group says Central Maine Healthcare is failing the Lakes Region and it’s publicly calling for the health system to give up Bridgton Hospital and affiliated medical practices so they can be taken over by someone else. The Pondicherry Group has 18 core members, including a former Bridgton Hospital executive, a retired […]
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Otisfield firetruck sidelined by computer problems
OTISFIELD — Fire Chief Kyle Jordan informed selectmen Wednesday night the department’s tanker truck is out of service due to computer problems. Jordan said a representative from Morrison & Sylvester Inc., a truck dealership in Auburn, came to the fire station to reboot the computer, but the truck is still not working. “We towed it down […]
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Playing fetch with snowballs in Norway
While waiting for her daughter to get out of Guy E. Rowe Elementary School in Norway on Tuesday afternoon, Heather Little, right, and her son Taylor Little use snowballs to play fetch with her dog, Scooby Doo. (Sun Journal photo by Matthew Daigle)