OXFORD HILLS — On a snowy November school day in 1956, students at the West Paris High School were evacuated when a faulty sprinkler head released spraying water against the ceiling, causing it to sag, and leaving two inches of water on the gymnasium floor. Sixty-one years later that same Viking sprinkler system is protecting […]

HEBRON — The majority of the SAD 17 Board of Directors have agreed to move forward with a plan to relocate an abandoned railroad building on Station Road across the street to a parcel on the Hebron Station School property. The Hebron Historical Society is attempting to save the railroad building, which some believe may be […]

HEBRON — A former Hebron Station School student will renovate the school gardens as his Eagle Scout project. “I had a lot of good memories here. One of them is them in the gardens,” said Andrew Estes of Hebron, who is now an eighth-grade student at Oxford Hills Middle School and a Life Scout with Troop […]

WEST PARIS — Students at Agnes Gray Elementary School may soon learn some of their lessons in an outdoor classroom. “It’s pretty special,” said Principal Elizabeth Clarke, who along with third-grade teacher Betsey Cooper have spearheaded “The Outdoor Classroom Initiative.” It’s a five-year project supported by the school staff and PTO that will ultimately result in […]

HEBRON — Lifelong friends Avery Jurek and Rachel Brouwer know first-hand the power art can have on one’s development and self confidence. The teens will now share that feeling of empowerment with girls (and boys) this summer through their work with an art education camp in Malawi. The first-ever, two-week long art camp is the culmination […]

PARIS — For the first time, SAD 17 officials will ask voters in its eight district towns to raise and appropriate locals funds, which exceed the state’s Essential Programs and Services allocation model. The proposed amount exceeding EPS is $1,094,849. The simple explanation for the “overage” is that it is not an overage, but rather shifting […]

PARIS — Residents must take the lead and demand changes from their legislators to keep the escalating costs of public education and the decreasing assistance from the state in check. That’s the message that some 15 town and school officials from the SAD 17 eight-district towns agreed will be necessary to fix the inequities in […]

PARIS — Growing up Garrett Haslett of Oxford put in a lot of time into Boy Scouts, but then life interrupted. Not wanting to let all of that time go to waste, he decided to rejoin recently and complete his Eagle Scout project for one of his favorite haunts – the Paris Public Library. Last week, […]