PORTLAND — Local students recently performed as part of the University of Southern Maine School of Music student ensembles. As the only School of Music in a public university in New England, the school features a faculty of distinguished performers, teachers, scholars and mentors. More than 100 concerts and events are presented each academic year; […]
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Adult, youth grief support programs offered
LEWISTON – Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice is offering programs this winter to provide information and support to adults and youth in central and western Maine grieving the death of a loved one. Program sessions help participants understand the grief process, share feelings and experiences and find hope and comfort. All programs are led by […]
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Collins seeks federal probe into why taxpayer money funded housing squalor in Oxford County
NORWAY, Maine — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has requested a federal investigation into taxpayer-subsidized low-income housing in Oxford County that had been allowed to fall into disrepair. In a letter sent Thursday from Collins to David Montoya, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the senator urged the department to […]
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New kids’ books at Norway Memorial Library
NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library has announced the following additions to the children’s fall booklist. Nonfiction: Ai-Ling Louie, Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China; Rafe Martin, The Rough-Face Girl; Jenny Wood, I Wonder Why Kangaroos have Pouches and Other Questions about Baby Animals; Tammi Salzano, Poison; Martin Jenkins, Can We Save the Tiger?; Amanda O’Neill, […]
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Without snow, seasonal sales slow
RUMFORD — Winter recreationists, snowmobile dealers and Nordic ski center managers are lamenting Maine’s lack of snow this month. However, sales and service are up in most places, such as Mike and Julie Ferguson’s Yamaha dealership, the Rev It Up Sport Shop in Rangeley. “Sales are better this December than they were last December, not […]
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New books at Norway Memorial Library
NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library has added the following books in November. Fiction: Jamil Ahmad, The Wandering Falcon; David Baldacci, Zero Day; Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Canterbury Tale; M. C. Beaton, As the Pig Turns; Alan Bradley, I am Half-Sick of Shadows; Rita Mae Brown, Murder Unleashed, A Nose for Justice; Margaret Coel, The […]
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State housing board digs into Norway Section 8 housing problems
AUGUSTA, Maine — Members of the Maine State Housing Authority’s Board of Directors questioned how staff missed serious problems with Section 8 housing buildings in the Norway area, during their monthly meeting Tuesday. The problems with longtime landlord Madeline Pratt’s 12 buildings came to light this fall through a series of investigative articles by the […]