BUCKFIELD — Selectmen from Buckfield and Sumner voted Tuesday night to investigate using single-stream recycling at the towns’ jointly owned waste station on Route 140 in Buckfield. The selectmen, who make up the Solid Waste Committee, also voted to invite single-stream recycling companies to meet with them. The recycling method involves materials being automatically sorted […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Buckfield/Sumner Solid Waste Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Budget Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Hartford: Ordinance Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Oxford County Commission, 9 a.m., courthouse Sumner: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Sumner: Public hearing on Industrial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance, 7 […]
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2012 High School Baseball Overview
Class A Lewiston won its first regional crown in 61 years in 2011 and has the talent back to make the wait for the next one a lot shorter. Ace Corbin Hyde returns to anchor a staff otherwise short on varsity experience but battle tested on the mound and at the plate during Gayton Post’s […]
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Well done – Fred Parks
ASHLAND, Va. — Fred Parks, a resident of Buckfield, Maine, has earned a place on the fall 2011 dean’s list at Randolph-Macon College. Parks, a junior undecided major, is the son of Ms. Laura Parks.
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Anita L. Jeselskis
LEWISTON — Anita L. Jeselskis, 76, of Buckfield went home to meet her Lord and Savior surrounded by her loved ones on April 9. She was born in Rumford to Arthur and Marguerite Bradgon Priest on Jan. 10, 1936. Her love of people was reflected in her career choices of working as a waitress, painting […]
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Eleanor G. Suomela
NORWAY — Eleanor Gordon (Harris) Suomela, 94, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 4. She was born Jan. 2, 1918, in Buckfield, the oldest daughter of Helen Clarendon (Gordon) Harris and Wade Armon Harris Sr. Her early years were spent on Roundabout Farm in Buckfield and on a farm on Tory Hill in Phillips. A connection […]
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Buckfield board told about vandalism
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen were told Tuesday night that vandals struck the town over the weekend, tipping over stones at Damon Cemetery and breaking dishes at the waste station swap shop. Acting Town Manager Dana Lee said stones were overturned and tire tracks ripped up the cemetery grounds on High Street. He said a window was […]
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Buckfield company makes official White House Easter eggs
BUCKFIELD — At the end of a dirt road, in a nondescript cinder block mill, Wells Wood Turning & Finishing makes tool handles, drawer knobs, toy parts and dabbles in bunny business. For six years, the company’s quietly made the official collectible White House Easter eggs. For 2012, employees made between 75,000 and 100,000 wooden […]