Norway Maine
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Bean suppers done NORWAY — Bean suppers at The Norway Masonic Hall will be suspended until further notice. Free turkey dinner NORWAY — The Community Thanksgiving Dinner Committee invites people from Oxford Hills to share a Thanksgiving Day meal with friends and neighbors. A full-course dinner will be prepared and served by members of St. […]
State stops Section 8 rent payments on some Norway apartments for safety violations
NORWAY — The Maine State Housing Authority will stop paying rent for 14 tenants living in Section 8 apartments owned by longtime local landlord Madeline Pratt. The state is severing its contract with Pratt on some apartments based on recent inspections that turned up safety violations in a number of Pratt’s 12 buildings in Norway […]
Norway library lists new books
NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library added the following items to its collection in October. Fiction Susan Wittig Albert, The Tale of Castle Cottage; Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell; Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin; Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers; Michael Brandman, Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues; Sandra Brown, Lethal; James Lee Burke, Feast […]
Biathlon planned for Sunday, Nov. 20
NORWAY — The Southern Maine Biathlon Club and Western Foothills Land Trust will sponsor 3K and 5K preseason biathlon races on Sunday, Nov. 20, at Roberts Farm Preserve. Target practice will start at 9:30 a.m. and races will begin at 11. Winter biathlons, which combine skiing and rifle shooting, test a Nordic skier’s strength, endurance […]
Rumford police log
Unless otherwise noted, the following are to be arraigned on Jan. 3 in Rumford District Court: * Kera Radcliff, 25, Rumford, domestic assault, 8:32 p.m. Nov. 11 on Loudine Avenue. She was released on $800 unsecured bail and will be arraigned on Dec. 6. * Daniel Pelletier, 32, Rumford, operating after suspension, 8:17 a.m. Nov. […]
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Family programs PARIS — The Families in Crisis Task Force will offer Christmas programs to Oxford County residents. Sign-up for parents with children 12 years old and younger for Christmas gifts will be from 9 a.m. to noon on Nov. 17 and Dec. 1. The pick-up date for these gifts will be Dec. 16 from […]
Joan C. Swallow
LEWISTON — Joan C. Swallow, 75, of Norway, died Sunday, Nov. 13, at Central Maine Medical Center. She was born in Rumford, April 22, 1936, the daughter of Merton C. and Ruth Cummings Conner. She graduated from Gould Academy in Bethel in 1954, and Colby Junior College in New London, N.H., in 1956, with an […]