PARIS – Members of the top five percent of the Class of 2016 were presented to the SAD 17 Board of Directors at its Monday, June 6 meeting. “This is a special class,” Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Principal Ted Moccia told directors of 272 students in the Class of 2016, including 13 students who […]
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Cummings is Oxford County Teacher of the Year
By A.M. Sheehan Editor’s Note: When we went to meet the teacher behind the apple this week, we discovered he had just been named Teacher of the Year for Oxford County! PARIS — For 17 years, right out of high school, Joe Cummings sold washers and sofas. And handled customer complaints as the sales and operations […]
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Ben Andrews of Norway wins merit scholarship
By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — Ben Andrews of Norway, a senior at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, has been named a Merit Scholar. The senior class valedictorian found out at a pep rally this week when the announcement was made. “It’s just a tremendous award. There’s very, very few [Merit Scholars] in the country,” Principal […]
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Oxford Hills middle schoolers take active role in community
By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD — A group of Oxford Hills Middle School students are on a quest to support the community-at-large and their own school. Thirty-four students from Michele Wood’s and Erica Rogers’ classes at the South Campus have been planning a huge community yard sale and vendor event plus a community dinner to raise […]
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Gardens, learning, fun — new interactive center at McLaughlin Garden in Paris
PARIS — Learning can be fun and interactive and museums don’t have to be serious and stuffy – which is the mantra recently adopted by McLaughlin Garden and Homestead’s Board of Directors. To coincide with this new vision, the Curtis House on Main Street in Paris – which has sat quiet and vacant for several years […]
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Dreams, determination, dilligence: Streaked Mountain students are role models for us all
By A.M. Sheehan NORWAY — AS. AS could stand for Advanced Study. Or for Amazing Success. Or for Alternative School. At Streaked Mountain School, SAD 17’s alternative school, it stands for all three. Students privileged and lucky enough to attend Streaked Mountain are scholars in their own right. In fact, their path is, in many ways, […]
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Oxford Hills Tech students to build new cannon crib for Buckfield
BUCKFIELD — The cannon at the Zadoc Long Free Library will receive a new crib and location on the grounds, thanks to students at Oxford Hills Technical School. At the Saturday, April 9 Buckfield selectmen’s meeting, Town Manager Cindy Dunn presented to the board a proposal that is part of the library’s front entrance project […]
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Camo for Curtis: Oxford Hills Techical School students donate freedom-giving van
By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — Camo is Eddie Curtis’ favorite color. So it wasn’t difficult for the students and staff at the Oxford Hills Technical School’s automotive collision repair technology class to figure out what color to paint the van they were secretly restoring for him. On Tuesday, March 29, the 2000 Dodge 3500 van […]
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The good earth … Maisey Griffin is helping people eat
NORWAY — During high school, Maisey Griffin loved having her hands in the dirt and a field trip to Portland’s Preble Street Resource Center inspired her to continue to grow food and do something about hunger in western Maine. Now the 20-year-old Oxford resident works at Healthy Oxford Hills in Norway through the AmeriCorps VISTA program […]
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Oxford Hills’ Tommy Bancroft wins MJSL skimeister award
By Shane Wilson CAMDEN — Tommy Bancroft of the Oxford Hills Middle School ski team would overcome adversity and injury to become the 2016 Maine Junior Ski Leagues (MJSL) skimeister. The skimeister is awarded to the top skier who competes in all four of the events that comprise the MJSL Class A State Championships. The four […]