NORWAY — Norway Brewing Co., Western Foothills Land Trust and the Green Machine Bike Shop are teaming up to sponsor the Norway Winter Carnival on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25 and 26. According to its Facebook page, the Norway Winter Carnival is a “a local celebration of snow, the outdoors, food, beer, and everything Maine winter.” […]
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Oxford County Commissioners to vote on authorizing OCRCC software payment
PARIS — Oxford County commissioners will vote Tuesday on whether to authorize final payment for new computer software for the Oxford County Regional Communications Center. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. at the commissioners’ office in the courthouse on Western Avenue. At their Sept. 20 meeting, commissioners voted 3-0 to allow the Oxford County Regional […]
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Marijuana ordinance going to Norway voters in June
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen has voted 3-2 to place an ordinance on the June annual town meeting ballot that would prohibit retail marijuana establishments and social clubs Recreational use of marijuana became legal Jan. 30, though a moratorium signed by Gov. Paul LePage will delay certain provisions of the law until February 2018. […]
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Regional agenda
Monday Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Jay: Selectmen, executive session with unions, 3 p.m., Town Office Jay: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Spruce Mountain Middle School Tuesday Buckfield: Economic Development Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., […]
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Oxford Selectmen: What you need to know
Oxford Board of Selectmen Feb. 16, 2017 Oxford Town Hall Fire Department regionalization What happened Interim Town Manager Becky Lippincott told selectmen that a joint meeting to discuss regionalization of certain fire department services in Poland, Oxford and Paris was held. Norway did not respond to the request to meet. What it means Lippincott said […]
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West Paris man pleads no contest to felony sex assault
PARIS — A West Paris man was sentenced Friday in Oxford County Superior Court to 10 years in prison, with all but two years suspended, on a felony sex assault charge. John Emery, 71, was arrested in May 2016 and charged with gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact against a child under the age of […]
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Mainers encouraged to collect $11M in abandoned funds
AUGUSTA — The Office of the State Treasurer has received more than $11 million in the form of unclaimed property in the past year, and Mainers are being urged to check whether any of that cash belongs to them. “Unclaimed property” is money owed to Maine people by third parties, such as former employers, banks […]
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Norway board appoints new code officer
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Thursday evening to appoint Scott Tabb of Oxford as code enforcement officer. Tabb has been maintenance director at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Paris for the past 21 years. He succeeds Joelle Corey-Whitman who was recently hired as code officer for Oxford. “We had 10 applicants, and there […]
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Education reform panel issues first report
PARIS — A 15-member commission on education reform issued its first report last week, calling for exploring statewide or regional contracts to better compensate and retain effective teachers. It was one of 17 strategies listed by the Blue Ribbon Commission to Reform Public Education Funding and Improve Student Performance in Maine. The panel was created by […]
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Six snowstorms take toll on road crews, sand supplies
Oxford Hills was slammed with its sixth snowstorm in the past 10 days Wednesday, leaving schools closed for the third day this week and road crews exhausted amid growing concerns over road sand and salt supplies. “There ain’t much left,” Oxford Highway Department employee Nate Meserve said of the town’s sand and salt pile. He […]