LEWISTON — Saturday: sunny and 72? It’s the perfect day for a brew. Sunny skies, comfortable weather and plenty of beer are on tap for Baxter Brewing’s second annual Great Falls Brewfest this weekend, featuring 33 breweries from Maine and across the nation. Doors are set to open at 1 p.m. at Simard-Payne Memorial Park. Organizers […]
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Buckfield board seeks renter
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen gave the green light Tuesday night for a local brokerage group to look for tenants for the second floor of the Municipal Building, now that the Fire and Rescue departments have moved into the new fire station. Town Manager Cindy Dunn gave selectmen an email from Economic Development Committee Chairwoman Janet Iveson. The […]
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Oxford County ratifies deputies’ contract, boosts pay
PARIS — The Oxford County Commission has ratified a new three-year contract with sheriff’s deputies that boosts pay and tweaks their working relationship, ending more than three years of occasionally contentious negotiations. Retroactive to Jan. 1, all 19 employees will receive a pay increase of $1.75 an hour, with 2 percent raises in 2016 and 2017. […]
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Summer learning scheduled in RSU 10
DIXFIELD — Classes in Regional School Unit 10 ended this week, but a host of activities are scheduled this summer so students can continue learning. From 8 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from July 7 to July 30, incoming kindergartners and first-graders can attend events at all elementary schools to practice math, writing, […]
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Norway voters pass $4.6 million budget
PARIS — Norway residents passed a $4.6 million municipal budget at their annual town meeting Monday evening, fully funding current services and building reserves for big-ticket items in the future. The budget is $133,651 more than this fiscal year. It includes $225,000, or $25,000 more than this year, for road improvements, and a $10,000 increase in […]
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Norway voters restrict camper occupancy, approve fire substation funding
PARIS — Norway residents voted Monday night to place tighter rules on campers placed on private property and to set aside money to build a fire substation. More than 90 residents were still in the midst of the annual town meeting at 9 p.m., having approved about two-thirds of the articles on the warrant. The proposed […]
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Police: Panel clears officer who shot Lovell man
PARIS — A statewide panel has cleared a sheriff’s deputy any wrongdoing in a shooting in Lovell last month, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said Monday. Gallant said Monday a panel of former and current police authorities from across the state found Cpl. George Cayer’s action’s justifiable and the department’s policies instructing officers on how to […]
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Venezuelan tycoon paid off Lovell club debt; sheriff’s sale is off
LOVELL — A sheriff’s sale of a one-bedroom cabin named Early Bird at the private Severance Lodge Club has been canceled. The Center Lovell property was seized by the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office under court order in April for nonpayment of association dues. Chief Deputy Hart Daley was scheduled to auction the waterfront property at […]
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Buckfield voters acquire town library
BUCKFIELD — Residents approved a $2.34 million budget, officially took ownership of the library and gave town officials permission to buy a new bucket loader at the annual town meeting Saturday. Voters picked over the town’s spending plan in a four-hour meeting at the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, approved a housekeeping update to the town’s Shoreland […]