PARIS — The annual Universalist Church summer fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at 36 Pine St. off Market Square in Good Cheer Hall. The fair will feature an antiques and collectibles table, a baked foods table, a handcraft table and luncheon tables. Lobster salad rolls will be […]
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Police lights, sirens fail to stop teen driver
NORWAY – Police say a 16-year-old Bethel driver was apparently oblivious to a police cruiser’s loud siren and flashing lights Thursday afternoon as police tried for more than a mile to pull her over on Route 26. The teen was stopped at about 1:30 p.m. and charged with failure to stop for a police officer […]
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Paris town clerk waits for board action on resignation as manager
PARIS — Town Clerk Anne Pastore said she was told by Board of Selectmen Chairman David Ivey on Monday that she must remain as interim town manager until the board meets July 13. Pastore was appointed by selectmen Thursday to replace Sharon Jackson, who was fired June 22. The next day, Pastore submitted her resignation. […]
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Interim Manager Rejects Offer
PARIS – Newly appointed interim Town Manager Anne Pastore has told selectmen and fellow co-workers she will not take the position after all. She was appointed by selectmen on a 4-1 vote Thursday to replace Sharon Jackson, who was fired Monday. Jackson served as tax collector also. Pastore remains as town clerk and deputy tax […]
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Paris town clerk named interim manager
PARIS — Following a short executive session Thursday, selectmen voted to appoint the town clerk as the interim town manager. Anne Pastore was appointed to replace Town Manager Sharon Jackson, who was fired on Monday, until a new town manager is hired. Four selectmen voted in favor of the decision, with selectman Raymond Glover opposed. […]
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Leave this ordinance alone
Once again, something is fishy in the town of Paris. Two years ago, voters approved a revision of the decades-old subdivision ordinance. In December 2008, a group of anonymous landowners, unhappy with the new ordinance, drafted a substitute ordinance petitioned with signatures of 221 voters. The select board, in their wisdom, realized the Planning Board […]
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Fundraiser to send OH student to national skills competition
PARIS — A ticket auction will be held Saturday to raise funds for Carly Sauro of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School to compete at Skills USA in Missouri in June. The award-winning artist from Paris will represent Maine in the National SkillsUSA Advertising Design Competition in June. The ticket auction store at the school will […]
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Paris Utility District asks regulators for relief from copper discharge standards
STORY IN DIFFERENT BUCKET AUGUSTA — Steve Arnold, plant manager at the Paris Utility District, said the analogy best describing the quasi-municipal entity’s request to relax their standard on the amount of copper permitted to be discharged into the Little Androscoggin River is like driving on the highway. “Everyone’s always been driving 80 safely, now they’re […]
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Indoor yard sales at Legion PARIS — The South Paris American Legion Post 72, Church Street, will hold indoor yard sales from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 7. A lunch counter will be open, there will be a 50/50 raffle and raffle baskets. Proceeds will help the ladies Auxiliary send three students to […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Office calls
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 242 calls from June 29 to July 5. Among them were: * At 10:34 a.m. July 5, Deputy Dani Welch was out of the area to investigate the report of a person driving a golf cart on Pequawket Trail (Route 113) in Brownfield. State police were […]