WEST PARIS — Tri-Town Ambulance and Emergency Rescue Service will close at 5 p.m. Nov. 30, ending service to Sumner and West Paris, Deputy Chief Darryl Rugg said this week. Rugg said the closure is fallout from the closure of Ledgeview Living Center on Route 26 in West Paris earlier this month. The independently operated […]
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Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, Varsity Maine
SAD 44 School Board ponders future of athletic programs
BETHEL — At Monday’s SAD 44 School Board meeting, items discussed included the future of Telstar Middle and High School sports programs. Telstar has recently had issues fielding a sufficient amount of players for its athletic teams. Currently, close to only 20 percent of Telstar High School students play an after school sport. One of […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Officials ask for help to find Waterford man
WATERFORD — Oxford County Sheriff’s deputies and state game wardens are asking for the public’s help in locating a Waterford man who has been missing for more than a week. Warden Service Cpl. John MacDonald is asking Waterford, Stoneham and Harrison area hunters for help in finding Ricky Howard, 49, of 440 Norway Road. Howard […]
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Car falls on woman in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK — A 36-year-old Buckfield woman was injured when a vehicle fell from a lift in a garage and landed on her Saturday afternoon. Others working in the garage lifted the vehicle off her before responders arrived at Bulldog Auto, Fire Chief Kyle Hopps said. Hopps said the woman suffered serious injuries and was taken […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Norway board votes to hire Lewiston company to fix leaking clock tower roof
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Friday morning to hire Lewiston-based contractor Hebert Construction to fix the leaking roof of the Norway Opera House clock tower on Main Street. Town Manager Dennis Lajoie told the selectmen at an Oct. 4 meeting that the clock tower roof is “leaking worse than we thought,” and […]
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Safe crossing in Norway
John Lavertu, a custodian at Guy E. Rowe School in Norway, stands with his umbrella and stop sign Thursday afternoon at the crosswalk in front of the school on Main Street. (Matthew Daigle/Sun Journal)
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Paris board accepts Parks & Rec Committee member resignation
PARIS — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept the resignation of a recreation committee member and to allow the chairman — who also resigned — to reapply to the committee. Parks and Recreation Committee Chairman Krystall Rudman and member Jennifer Lewis both submitted letters of resignation to the board. Rudman wrote in […]
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New fire training center getting first use Thursday
NORWAY — Local firefighters have a new training building at the former Frost Hill stump dump and landfill off Route 117, Matt Buckley, president of the Oxford Hills Fire Training Center, said. It’ll be used for the first time Thursday. “We’re going to hold our first training using the new building at 5 p.m. Oct. […]
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Norway board to address Opera House roof leak
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday to deal with a leaking roof on the Opera House clock tower, a heat pump for the Police Department and a grant for the treatment plant. The special session was called because the board lacked a quorum at their regular meeting last week […]
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Paris to get reimbursement for salt, sand shed
PARIS — Town Manager Vic Hodgkins told selectmen Tuesday evening that the town can expect $64,253 from the state as reimbursement for building the town sand and salt shed. The shed was constructed in 1988. Hodgkins said the money from the Maine Department of Transportation is expected to arrive between now and Christmas and put in […]