NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday to deal with a leaking roof on the Opera House clock tower, a heat pump for the Police Department and a grant for the treatment plant. The special session was called because the board lacked a quorum at their regular meeting last week […]
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Norway Opera House clock tower suffering from 'serious' roof leak
NORWAY — Town Manager Dennis Lajoie told selectmen Thursday night the Opera House clock tower on Main Street has a “serious” leak that must be repaired to prevent water damage. Lajoie told Chairman Bruce Cook and Selectman Mike Twitchell the clock tower roof is leaking worse than thought. He said Lewiston-based contractor Hebert Construction has […]
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Creation Completed reunites to save Opera House
NORWAY — One is a local medical doctor. Another an educator at an international school in South Korea. Others are a former music teacher, a Harrison selectman and a retired postal worker. But in the late 1960s, they were young musicians tearing up the stage at the Norway Opera House. They covered 1960s British and […]
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’70s band reunites to raise money for Norway Opera House
NORWAY — There will be dancing in the street when the band Creation Completed re-creates itself in August. More than 45 years after six students from Oxford Hills High School created the rock band in the late 1960s, Alan Bean, Bill Holden, Rob Baker, Dave Ryerson, Karan Shaw and Annie Somers have reformed to raise […]
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Opera House preservation, rehabilitation work recognized
NORWAY — The Norway Opera House received a Historic Preservation Honor Award for Commercial-Restoration/Rehabilitation from Maine Preservation on Nov. 14. Lachman Architects & Planners of Portland, project architects, was selected by Maine Preservation to receive the award that honors some of the finest preservation projects in the state. It was presented at a dinner in […]
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Lachman Architects & Planners to receive award for restoration of historic opera house
NORWAY — Lachman Architects & Planners of Portland has been selected by Maine Preservation to receive a Historic Preservation Honor Award for commercial-restoration/rehabilitation of the Norway Opera House. The award, which will be presented at a dinner in Falmouth on Thursday, Nov. 14, honors some of the finest preservation projects in the state. In late […]