NEWRY — Selectmen on Tuesday night signed a contract with the Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Bridgton and approved insurance coverage for volunteers who serve the town’s needs. Deputy Town Clerk Kelly Scott said Thursday that Newry’s animal control officer, Sue Milligan, takes stray or lost dogs to the Bridgton shelter. That’s why they contract […]
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3,500 racers to compete in 6th annual Sunday River Tough Mountain Challenge
NEWRY — Sunday River Ski Resort will host its sixth annual Tough Mountain Challenge, where 3,500 participants will compete in a 4-mile mud race featuring a variety of natural and man-made obstacles on the slope’s trails. Spokeswoman Sarah Devlin said the Tough Mountain Challenge was created in 2010 to bring people to the mountain during […]
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Tonight’s agenda
Franklin New Vineyard: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Smith Hall Oxford Hills Dixfield: Selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Newry: Fire Department, 7 p.m., Bear River Station Paris: Paris Utility District Board of Trustees, 6:30 p.m., 7 C N Brown Way River Valley Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town […]
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Rain doesn’t deter fans from New England Forest Rally racers in Newry
NEWRY — Five-year-old Kaleb Voter of Dixfield was thrilled beyond belief early Saturday morning when his parents took the youngster and his brother to the New England Forest Rally’s Parc Expose at Sunday River Ski Resort. Kaleb said he wants to race rally cars when he grows just like his rally racing heroes, Travis Pastrana […]
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Rescuers carry out injured N.H. teen from Grafton Loop Trail campsite in Newry
NEWRY — A New Hampshire teenager who injured her leg in a hiking fall early Thursday afternoon at a Grafton Loop Trail campsite was carried out on a litter by 9:45 p.m., rescuers said. The girl, whom Warden Brock Clukey declined to identify, is from Plymouth, N.H. He said she tore ligaments in a knee […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Newry board approves 42-cent increase in tax rate
NEWRY — Town Office employees were busy Wednesday morning printing off 3,447 property tax bills and stuffing them into envelopes. Selectmen set the new tax rate Tuesday night at $9.47 per $1,000 of valuation, Administrator Loretta Powers said. It is a 42-cent increase. “The tax bills will be in tomorrow’s mail,” she said. Despite the […]
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3 paraplegic handcyclists make history with Trek Across Maine
NEWRY — After an unexpected downpour early Friday morning, three paraplegic bicyclists pedaled into history with their hands on the first leg of the three-day American Lung Association’s annual Trek Across Maine. Kenny Young of Newry and Springfield, Vt., Chris Collin of Hollis and Larry Nadeau of Springfield, Vt., rode out of the Maine Adaptive […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Newry selectmen consider adding to board
NEWRY — Selectmen on Tuesday night took under advisement a request to consider increasing the number of board members from three to five. Chairman Gary Wight said he wanted to know what was next since Virgil Conkright didn’t provide any reasons for his request, other than to say that the board might have trouble with […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Newry to fix $75,000 error
NEWRY — Selectmen hastily scheduled a special board meeting for Thursday, June 18, to draft a warrant to correct a March town meeting error. Near the end of Tuesday night’s board meeting, Administrator Loretta Powers said no one caught the mistake in Article 34 that was supposed to take $75,000 from unappropriated surplus and buy […]
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SAD 44 voters approve $10.6 million budget
BETHEL — School Administrative District 44 Superintendent David Murphy said all four towns passed the $10.6 million budget Tuesday. Murphy said the spending plan for 2015-16, which is $97,097 more than 2014-15, was approved by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The result was a 271-137 vote. Bethel’s vote was 167-89; Greenwood’s, 23-8; Newry’s, 37-26; and Woodstock’s, […]