NEWRY — Crews with Canadian commercial trucking firm Enterprises Clément Lavoie Inc. of Coaticook, Quebec, and Newry firefighters spent most of Wednesday dealing with a 53-foot-long trailer that collapsed on Route 26. That Wabash National trailer, being pulled by a tractor-trailer truck, was hauling 39 rolls of newsprint from Canada to the Sun Journal in […]
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This week’s agenda
Wednesday Bethel: Board of Assessors, 8 a.m., Town Office Newry: School withdrawal meeting, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Newry: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Thursday Bethel: Recreation Board, 7 p.m., Town Office
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Newry Withdrawal Committee to meet
NEWRY — The Newry Withdrawal Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in the Town Office. The meeting is open to the public. According to Chairman Jim Sysko, the committee is charged with “creating a plan that will be an improvement for our kids.” Newry voters decide whether to approve withdrawing from School […]
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Maine skiers revel in ‘White Friday’
NEWRY — While shoppers rushed to stores early Friday to cash in on the first of the holiday-season deals, Maine skiers and snowboarders were flocking to the slopes to enjoy extra-early, extra-good snow conditions, thanks to a storm that walloped the region Wednesday night. “This is the best conditions have been for Thanksgiving Day weekend […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Oxford Hills
Storm dumps 15 inches; ‘lucky’ driver walks away from train collision
They slipped, slid and skied. After an ugly storm brought 15 inches of snow to Lewiston-Auburn and parts of Western Maine overnight Wednesday into Thursday, police responded to a myriad of accidents, including a truck-train collision. A tractor-trailer driver in South Paris walked away after he ran flashing red lights, got stuck on train tracks […]
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Newry Withdrawal Committee introduces educational consultant
NEWRY — The Newry Withdrawal Committee introduced former SAD 17 Superintendent Mark Eastman as its educational consultant Thursday evening at the Town Office. Eastman said he was superintendent of the Oxford Hills School District in Paris for 15 years and worked in a smaller school district in northern Maine for 10 years. “Since retirement, I’ve […]
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Newry board discusses junkyard complaint, grange hall work
NEWRY — Selectmen took up the issue of junkyards Tuesday night after a resident complained about their neighbor’s yard. The board didn’t identify either resident; they just asked Code Enforcement Officer David Bonney how best to handle the complaint. However, Bonney said there isn’t much the town can do because Newry doesn’t have a property […]
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Newry board gets cost estimate for Sunday River Road
NEWRY — Selectmen learned Tuesday night that it will be expensive to fix all the problems along a three-mile stretch of Sunday River Road in one shot. With town budget work looming, Code Enforcement Officer David Bonney sought and received a budget estimate of $900,520 from Bruce A. Manzer Inc. for 38,593 square yards, or […]
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Well done – Students honored for achievements
BRUNSWICK — Glen Johnson of Jay and Brenda Laplante of Lewiston were named to the Southern New Hampshire University — Maine Center president’s list for terms in spring 2014. — DAHLONEGA, Ga. — In ceremonies held Aug. 2 at the University of North Georgia, graduating cadets were awarded commissions as second lieutenants in the U.S. […]
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Newry board splits town meeting, elections into two days
NEWRY — Selectmen voted 3-0 Tuesday night to hold municipal elections the day before the annual town meeting instead of the same day. That means voters will go to the polls from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, March 2, at the Town Office to elect a selectman and meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March […]