NORWAY — Selectmen on Thursday tabled a request for prayer at the start of each board meeting until they determine a fair, respectful and all encompassing way to do it. “I want to support everyone’s belief, but we need more time to study this,” Selectman Russ Newcomb said. He and others on the board said […]
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Norway to celebrate Earth Day on April 22
Start the day with a work share and garden opening at the Alan Day Community Garden from 10 a.m. to noon. Stroll over to the parking lot behind Fare Share Co-op to enjoy a full afternoon of music, dance and puppetry beginning at noon. The UU church on Main Street will host a public supper […]
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Two file papers for Norway election
NORWAY – Election season is off to a slow start with only two candidates returning papers for the town’s annual balloting June 12. Selectman Russ Newcomb has returned papers for a third term, Town Clerk Shirley Boyce said. Peter Toohey, who was appointed to fill an unexpired term for trustee of Norway Memorial Library has […]
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Police charge two with trespassing at Norway home
NORWAY — Two men who refused to leave a trailer they didn’t own were charged with criminal trespass after police from five agencies surrounded the home. Joseph R. Mitchell, 22, of Sebago, and Adam L. Sanborn, 29, of Oxford, were arrested Tuesday night after police entered the trailer and arrested them with the help of […]
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Young author touts pranks to bring family together
NORWAY — A Rowe Elementary School student has published a book on fun ways to play pranks on siblings. William Eshleman, a sixth-grade student at the Norway elementary school, with the help of his sister Paige Kimball, a 10th-grade student at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, wrote the book. It highlights the special bond that […]
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Oxford Hills tech students plan harvest and sawmill demonstration April 21
NORWAY — The Western Maine chapter of the Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine will meet at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, at the Frost Hill Solid Waste facility. Frost Hill is off Route 117 between Norway and Harrison. Oxford Hills Technical School forestry students are conducting a commercial harvest on about five acres […]
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OHMPAA will stage Neil Simon play
NORWAY — The first show of the Oxford Hil’ls Music and Performing Arts Association’s 2012 season, Neil Simon’s “Jakes Women,” will open Thursday, May 3. Jake, played by Tim Lorrain, is a writer who struggles to engage fully in his real life with his real wife, rather than remain safely holed up at his desk […]
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Norway budget requests under way
NORWAY– Reviews of departmental budgets for the upcoming fiscal year are under way by the Budget Committee and selectmen. The committee is meeting each week to review every department budget, but a final recommendation isn’t expected on each until April 30, according to Town Manager David Holt. Earlier this month, Holt proposed a $2,705,305 budget […]