NORWAY — Local churches, towns and aid organizations are working to open up communications with one another to better provide aid to the poor and homeless. Anne Stanley, rector at Christ Episcopal Church in Norway, said one goal is to create a list or even a book for organizations in the Oxford Hills region to […]
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Last bingo game marks end of a social scene
PARIS — The Tuesday bingo game was, until this year, a revenue stream for American Legion Post 72. For many, it was the social scene. Sheila Kailey and Lorraine Moore have met in Paris at the Legion every Tuesday for 10 years. Kailey drove from Waterford, Moore from Harrison. They parked their cars by the […]
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Library patrons asked to adopt a kids’ book
PARIS — The Paris Public Library Children’s Room is holding its Adopt-A-Children’s-Book fundraiser again this holiday season. The Children’s Room staff have selected more than 30 classic children’s books they wish to add or replace in the library’s collection, decorating a Christmas tree with note cards of the various books’ covers and costs. Donors are […]
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Veterans recognized with wreaths
PARIS — Officials with Wreaths Across America and its founder, the Worcester Wreath Co. in Harrington, thanked 75 veterans housed in the Maine Veterans’ Home with a large wreath early Saturday afternoon. Representatives of three of the five original members of the Western Maine Veterans Advisory Committee received smaller wreaths. An administrative mix-up delayed the […]
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Paris home burns: Hunter spots fire, alerts family
PARIS — A family with a 7-month-old baby was left homeless by a fire Thursday morning that destroyed the home they were renting. Samantha Bean, her boyfriend, Nick Merrill, and their baby daughter were awoken by pounding on the door and escaped the fire, WGME-TV reported. A fast-moving blaze swept through the two-story, single-family home […]
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NPSW board to address employee bonuses Wednesday
PARIS — The Norway-Paris Solid Waste board will address Christmas bonuses given to NPSW employees at its meeting Wednesday night. Norway Town Manager David Holt, who is on the NPSW board, said that although he wasn’t in favor of bonuses except in the case of outstanding work, he acknowledged that employees were counting on it. […]
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Unoccupied pickup runs over boy
PARIS — An 8-year-old boy was taken by medical helicopter to a Portland hospital after an unoccupied pickup his father was working on knocked him down and ran him over Sunday morning. Lt. Michael Dailey of the Paris Police Department said that the accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. Sunday at a home on Christian Ridge […]
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Paris seeks volunteers to shape land-use ordinance
PARIS — Nearly three-fourths of Paris voters said they favored an ordinance to carry out the town’s Comprehensive Plan. Now, the town is looking for volunteers to help create one. The question on the Nov. 2 ballot was intentionally vague, according to Paris Planning Board Chairman Robert Kirchherr. Everything about the ordinance, even the name, […]
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Selectmen to discuss results of land use preference ballot
PARIS — Selectmen will discuss the results of a nonbinding ballot on whether to create a zoning plan or land use ordinance and put it to a resident vote at Monday’s meeting. In the Nov. 2 election, Paris residents were asked if they supported preparing a land use ordinance, holding public hearings on it and […]