CANTON — Clean up fire-damaged properties, repair an old school building or establish a campground. These are among the ideas favored by townspeople on how to spend the $32,000 per year paid by Canton Mountain Wind to the town’s Community Benefit Fund. Voters at town meeting in June approved setting up a special account for […]
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Canton accident victim identified
CANTON — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office on Friday released the name of a third person involved in a single-vehicle crash that killed two people Tuesday. Corey Edingbourgh, 36, of Mexico, was seriously injured in the Canton Point Road accident that took the lives of Shawn Hodge, 38, of Rumford, and Sarah Bosworth, 26, of […]
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Rumford man and Mexico woman die Christmas night in Canton crash
CANTON — Two people were killed in a single-vehicle crash Christmas night, according to the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. Shawn Hodge, 38, of Rumford, and Sarah Bosworth, 26, of Mexico died in the crash, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said Wednesday. A third person in the vehicle was seriously injured and taken to a hospital. Neither […]
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Community honors Canton veterans during Wreaths Across America ceremony
CANTON — Townspeople displayed 18 wreaths for military veterans in Hillside Cemetery on Canton Point Road on Saturday in a Wreaths Across America ceremony. More than 200 veterans are buried throughout the town’s 13 cemeteries, with 39 are at the Hillside Cemetery. They fought in wars as long ago as the Revolutionary and as recently […]
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Canton board: Meadowview Road gate needs better lock
CANTON — Selectmen are looking for a solution to the problem of access to cemeteries on Meadowview Road. The town locks the gate to the road during the spring and summer because of vandalism and trash dumping. But when they went to unlock the gate for Veterans Day weekend to allow access to the cemeteries, […]