NORWAY — The renovation of the Norway Opera House will continue to move forward: Voters accepted a $400,000 state grant to renovate first-floor storefronts at a special town meeting Thursday. Voters approved the Communities for Maine’s Future grant on a 27-4 vote following nearly 50 minutes of discussion and questions about the plan. The renovation […]

PARIS — Selectmen have released a list of the roads most in need of repairs. Ryerson Hill Road, the condition of which raised the ire of residents at the Oct. 10 meeting, is near the top of the list, after Elm Hill Road and the section of Paris Hill Road south of Ryerson Hill Road. […]

PARIS — The public will be able to see the Oxford Hills School District’s new $2 million biomass boiler and other alternative energy projects next month as the boiler is prepared to be fired up for the season. The open house will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16. Tours of the four […]

WEST PARIS — Western Maine University and Community College Center in Paris will offer a Finnish language course in January to boost Finnish-Americans’ ability to speak their native language. To assist residents who wish to learn more about the upcoming course, the Finnish-American Heritage Society of Maine will give a presentation at the organization’s meeting […]

PARIS — An eighth-grader at Oxford Hills Middle School has won a semifinal spot on the television show “Kick Start,” which aims to provide college scholarships to Maine students. “I won,” said Cordell Leeman of Oxford, who competed in the first round last week and will film the semifinals in the next few weeks for […]

PARIS — Selectmen voted Tuesday to close part of the Cornwall Nature Preserve to hunting. In a 4-0 vote, selectmen voted to allow hunting only on the south side of the white trail, the main trail that runs through the preserve. The idea came from Board of Selectmen Chairman Ted Kurtz, who said the area […]