BETHEL — The local Ordinance Review Committee reached a tentative agreement last week on a proposal to lessen key restrictions in the town’s new commercial wind power ordinance. But landowner Bob Chadbourne, who has closed his lands to recreational use in protest of the ordinance and to highlight landowner rights, said after last week’s meeting that what the panel came up with […]
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Virginia couple wins wife-carrying contest
Casey Mayanrd and Alex Gauvin of Westbrook compete in the 18th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River resort. The couple got engaged at last year’s event. Kirsten Barney is weighed using cases of beer after she and her husband, Jake Barney, of Lexington, Virginia, won the 18th annual North American Wife Carrying Championship at […]
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West Paris man charged with assault, obstructing report of crime
Robert Henderson PARIS — Bail was set Wednesday at $3,500 cash for a West Paris man charged with assaulting a woman and attempting to prevent her from calling the police. Robert Henderson, 49, was arrested Oct. 3 and charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence assault, both felony crimes. He was also charged with a […]
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Oxford aims to ban retail marijuana
OXFORD — The Board of Selectmen unanimously agreed Thursday to appoint a committee to develop an ordinance prohibiting recreational marijuana retail establishments and social clubs. The committee voted 4-0 to approve a committee made up of nine or 10 people, including residents, representatives of the Police Department, Economic Development Committee and Board of Selectmen, the […]
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Norway voters approve moratorium on medical marijuana facilities
Norway Selectmen Thomas Curtis, left, and Bruce Cook listen as Town Manager Dennis Lajoie talks about the proposed 180-day moratorium on medical marijuana grow facilities on Thursday at the Town Office. NORWAY — Residents voted unanimously Thursday evening to establish a 180-day moratorium on medical marijuana grow facilities in town. Town Manager Dennis Lajoie said […]
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Yarn-spinner, jazz performers reminisce about Fryeburg Fair
Lucy Myers, left, of Deerfield, New Hampshire, shows John and Linda Parker of Clinton, Massachusetts, how she makes yarn using her spinning wheel on Thursday at the Fryeburg Fair. FRYEBURG — Since the start of this year’s Fryeburg Fair, Lucy Myers, a former sheep farmer from Deerfield, New Hampshire, has sat just outside the barn […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fryeburg Fair, ho!
Between the six-packs of padded bras, the tiger-face leggings and the sweet maple cotton candy, I’m not even sure where to start. Maybe at the very beginning. In this column’s storied, 11-year history — can I be so bold as to call it storied? — we have yet to ever shop a fair. So it […]
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Oxford planners decision reversed, must reconsider application
OXFORD — The Appeals Board voted unanimously to reverse the Planning Board’s decision to deny the medical marijuana application of HBC LLC and remanded it back to the Planning Board to consider the application for evaluation and review. The board has further voted 3-1 that the Planning Board was incorrect in issuing the town’s third and […]
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Oxford Casino to add another 400 parking spaces
OXFORD — The Department of Environmental Protection has approved a permit for BB Development LLC to begin construction of a $1,050,000, 401 parking space lot at the Oxford Casino. Construction of the first phase – about 200 spaces – is expected to be completed this fall at the time the Casino’s hotel and OxPub open for business […]
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From dirt roads to high tech … ‘all of a sudden I was there’; Buckfield Boston Post cane presented to Ted Perry
BUCKFIELD — Ted Perry never thought he’d live to see 95, let alone become the oldest resident of Buckfield. That honor was bestowed upon him on Monday, Oct. 2, at his Bryant Road home by the Board of Selectmen and Town Clerk Cindy Dunn. They presented Perry Buckfield’s Boston Post Cane, signifying he is the town’s […]