Wildflower walk CASCO — A spring wildflower walk will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 12, at Loon Echo’s Mayberry Hill Preserve. Jon Evans, Loon Echo’s stewardship and volunteer coordinator, will lead the 1.2-mile hike over easy terrain. Hikers should plan accordingly for weather conditions (trail may be slippery due to wet spring conditions) […]
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Posted inObituaries
Ellen M. Snow
NORWAY — Ellen M. Snow, 82, of Norway died Tuesday, May 8, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. She was born in Norway, Nov. 25, 1929, the daughter of George Murphy Sr. and Myrtle Grover Murphy. She attended Norway schools and had been employed at the Norway Diner, B & M and Newberry’s before opening Ellen’s Talk […]
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Oxford County arrest log
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: * Wayne C. Lane, 53, of Rumford, May 7, domestic violence assault and obstructing report of a crime, $1,000 cash bail, Rumford Police Department. * Michael P. Higgins, 29, of Oxford, May 8, violation of bail condition and receiving stolen property, Oxford Police […]
Posted inLetters
A. Pelletier: They knew full well
Just when I thought I had heard it all, former football players with brain injuries are suing the National Football League for not properly protecting them from those injuries. Those guys made a bazillion bucks to play a dangerous game — a game that they knew full well to be dangerous and could lead to […]
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History intern sought BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society has announced that, thanks to generous financial support from BHS life member Michael Swift Stowell of Flagler Beach, Fla., it will again sponsor an eight-week high school history internship for qualified students in grades 9 through 12 at Gould Academy and Telstar Regional High School. Applicants […]
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Library holding teen ‘Hunger Games’ party
NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library invites teens, grades 7-12, to The Hunger Games Party from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 10. The party will be held in the Teen Room on the lower level of the library. Teens can become ‘tributes’ or ‘spectators’ in the Hunger Game challenge. Tributes will be given opening points […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Progress Center farm market to close May 9
NORWAY — The Oxford Hills Food Collaborative Market is closing its doors earlier than expected. It will close at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, instead of the previously planned Friday, May 11. “Due to the overwhelming response to the 50 percent off closing sale, our shelves are nearly bare,” Kristin Benedix, executive director of the […]
Posted inOxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Norway manager in ‘shock’ over town’s share of school budget
NORWAY — Town Manager David Holt said he’s stunned that local taxpayers will have to pick up more than $275,000 of the Oxford Hills School District budget in 2012-13. “It was a shock. I was taken aback,” Town Manager David Holt told SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts at Thursday night’s selectmen’s meeting. Colpitts attended to […]
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AARP members meet PARIS — The Oxford Hills Chapter of AARP will meet on Monday, May 14, at the First Congregational Church on E. Main Street, South Paris. A dinner of oven baked chicken with all the fixings will be served at noon. The cost is $6.50 and reservations are required by calling Ruth at […]
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Boarding house blaze being investigated as arson
NORWAY — Two police officers are being credited with saving lives, as well as a building, by pulling a burning mattress from the entrance to a boarding house in Norway late Saturday night. Norway fire Chief Dennis Yates said the blaze is being investigated by the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office as arson. The two police […]