NORWAY (WGME) — A man and his dog escape a mobile home fire on New Year’s Day in Norway. Chief Dennis Yates says they got the call around 3:45 a.m. that a home on Yagger Rd. was on fire. Chief Yates says a police officer who responded to the call, as well as a firefighter […]
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Wendall "Chummy" Broomhall, Maine skiing legend, dies
Wendall “Chummy” Broomhall, left, the oldest living member of the Chisholm Ski Club, talks as Scott Pitts listens at Black Mountain’s Winter Carnival in February 2017. Pitts asked Broomhall to autograph his newly purchased copy of “A Century on Skis” by Scott Andrews. (Sun Journal file photo) Maine — and the United States — have […]
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Frank Perham's 'beautiful mining summer'
The summer of 2016 was a bit ho-hum at the Hayes Quarry on Noyes Mountain in Greenwood, where miner Frank Perham had been digging into the granite. Fast forward to July 1, 2017, and it’s a different story. “It’s been a beautiful mining summer,” said octogenarian Perham, of West Paris. Perham had been digging into […]
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Merger, Gallant among area’s top 10 stories of 2017
Try describing 2017 in a concise way. We dare you. In Maine, as in the rest of the country, it was a year that started with a loud and often ugly political debate that never seemed to end. There were scandals of all kinds and tragedies almost too immense to bear. Locally, the idea to […]
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Below-zero temperatures leave Norway in need of donated mittens
NORWAY — Local children are in “desperate need” of mittens and gloves, the town’s General Assistance director says. Shannon Moxcey, who serves as the General Assistance director for several towns including Norway, said that a few years ago, the Norway Police Department became heavily involved in the nationwide Walking School Bus, a program created to […]
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Students make new year's decorations in Norway
Annika Black, back, the children’s services librarian at Norway Memorial Library, assists a student from Guy E. Rowe Elementary School with making noisemakers and other New Year’s Day decorations during the library’s monthly “Wacky Wednesday” series. Black said that once a month she invites students to the library on the last Wednesday to participate in […]
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Norway Fire Department seeking more than $100,000 in grant funding
NORWAY — The Fire Department has begun the process of applying for $102,000 in grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Assistance to Firefighters program, according to Chief Dennis Yates. Assistant Chief Matt Buckley has taken the lead in writing the grant proposals for the FEMA assistance that would be used to replace protective clothing worn by firefighters, portable […]
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Norway teen sentenced for car theft
PARIS — A Norway teen pleaded guilty Friday to burglary and theft charges stemming from an incident in Norway last summer. Jordan Shields, 19, was sentenced to three years in prison with all but nine months and one day suspended for theft by unauthorized taking and burglary, both felonies. He was ordered to serve 18 […]
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Dassler, Van Nests honored as Land Trust celebrates 30 years
NORWAY — The Western Foothills Land Trust is celebrating 30 years. The trust, founded in 1987 by Mary and Bob Van Nest, holds 32 conservation easements covering 4,190 acres and owns 19 parcels that make up about 3,100 acres. The trust’s board of directors has dedicated a plaque to the Van Nests and to Executive […]
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Freezing rain makes travel hazardous
Freezing rain created “treacherous” road conditions in Western Maine on Saturday and left 7,000 households across the state without power. As of 8:28 p.m., Oxford, York and Cumberland counties each were reporting more than 2,000 customers without electricity, according to Central Maine Power. An automated message blamed the outages on “current weather conditions.” Earlier in […]