For information on events and demonstrations, and on camping and parking access at the Fryeburg Fair, go to: fryeburgfair.org/Fair-Info.
Oxford Hills
News and information about the Oxford Hills area from the Sun Journal.
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This week's agenda
Monday Hartford: Food bank, 4 p.m., Town Hall. Hartford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office. Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office. Rumford: Rumford Public Library board of trustees, 3:30 p.m., Municipal Building. Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center. Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building. Livermore: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office. Mexico: Selectmen, […]
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Norway Planning Board OKs change of use permit for Smokin’ Dave’s BBQ
Smokin’ Dave’s BBQ, a South Paris restaurant, is planning to move to 230 Main St. in Norway, formally Economy Auto Sales. The Planning Board unanimously voted Thursday to approve a change-of-use permit. NORWAY — The Planning Board has approved a change-of-use permit for a South Paris restaurant looking to move to a former used-car property […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Fryeburg Fair fun
Hadley Herling, 5, of Durham gives her great-grandfather’s Holstein, Tarah, a hug at the Fryeburg Fair on Sunday. Herling is the fourth generation to help out on Mike Wilson’s Wilsondale Farm in Gray. John Andrews of Fryeburg taught how to make basic knots at the farm museum at Fryeburg Fair on Sunday.
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Norway board tables medical marijuana application for second time
NORWAY — The Planning Board on Thursday declared incomplete a Lewiston man’s site plan review application for a medical marijuana grow facility due to a lack of correct receipts from abutters. This was the second time in two consecutive meetings the matter was tabled by the board. Members voted unanimously Thursday evening to require Rob […]
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Norway teen pleads guilty to drug trafficking
PARIS — A Norway man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison with all but 4½ years suspended in Oxford County Superior Court for two separate incidences of trafficking heroin. Jacolby Morrison, 19, pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs and one Class B count of unlawful trafficking in scheduled […]
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Motorcyclist injured in Norway collision
A Jeep Compass driven by Debra Smith, 58, of Norway and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle driven by Jose Pirela, 55, of South Paris collided Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Marston and Beal streets in Norway. Pirela was taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital by PACE ambulance; Smith appeared to be uninjured.
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Gingerbread House gets facelift
Kevin Russell of Olde Tyme Painters paints the front side of the Gingerbread House Wednesday afternoon on Main Street in Norway. The Friends of the Gingerbread House group recently got a $20,000 grant from the Davis Family Foundation to do the work.
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Bethel woman receives fully suspended sentence for role in drug conspiracy
PARIS — A Bethel woman received a fully suspended sentence Tuesday morning at Oxford County Superior Court for felony conspiracy to commit unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. Morgan McKinney, 22, was one of 15 people to be arrested in 2015 as part of what officials called the largest drug investigation in Oxford County history. While […]
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Mexico man pleads guilty to heroin charge
PARIS — A Mexico man pleaded guilty Tuesday morning at Oxford County Superior Court to a felony charge of unlawful possession of heroin. Glen Lane, 32, was one of six people arrested in Rumford on April 28 and charged with aggravated trafficking. The state agreed to drop the single count of aggravated trafficking that Lane […]