PARIS — The county will herald its change to a biweekly pay period for employees by offering a paperless receipt for paycheck stubs. Oxford County is shifting how its 80-plus employees receive their statements in order to save payroll and paper expenses. Unveiled at the commissioners’ monthly meeting Tuesday, the paycheck receipt is almost identical to […]
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C. Jackson, S. Merrill, D. Duguay: Offer is fair, reasonable
The Oxford County deputies’ union walked out of bargaining with the commissioners two years ago, and did not return for 15 months. After seven more months, the union walked out again and we are now here. County Commissioners value the deputies’ service and have made fair, even generous proposals to settle the contract, including a […]
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Oxford Republicans choose Turner as county commissioner candidate
PARIS — Buckfield resident and former Maine State Trooper Timothy Turner will vie for the open county commissioners’s seat in November after being elected by the Republican caucus Monday night. Turner, a self-described fiscal Republican, will face Democratic candidate Lee Holman of Hartford in the general election on Nov. 4 for a three-year term as […]
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Oxford County mulls proposals for regional airport
PARIS — County officials are reviewing business proposals from local companies as they seek to find a new tenant for the Oxford County Regional Airport, according to County Administrator Scott Cole. The county officials have been looking for a new tenant to take over the building’s lease ever since Oxford Aviation was evicted on April […]
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Jackson withdraws from Oxford county commissioners’ race
PARIS — A month and a half after entering the race for her husband’s Oxford County commissioner’s seat, Diane Jackson, 59, has withdrawn from the race. Republican Committee Chairman Tim Turner of Buckfield said Thursday that Jackson confirmed she was withdrawing from the race last week. A caucus will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July […]
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Hayes leaves commission race to work for Cutler campaign
PARIS — Oxford County Commission candidate Terry Hayes of Buckfield has withdrawn from the race to work for gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler. Hayes, 55, a Democratic state representative for Sumner, Buckfield, Paris and Hartford, said Tuesday that she voluntarily withdrew from the race because she had accepted a position with the Cutler campaign and wouldn’t […]
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Former Rumford selectman, Oxford County commissioner remembered
RUMFORD — Thursday morning was bittersweet on Penobscot Street at the Kennard family house for Carolyn Kennard and her daughter, Margery Kennard. The two women were reminiscing and preparing to go through several family photo albums. Specifically, they were looking for pictures of Fredric L. Kennard — Carolyn’s husband of 52 years, and Margery’s beloved […]
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Oxford County men’s homeless shelter to stay another year
PARIS — Oxford County’s only all-male homeless shelter will remain open after County commissioners agreed to extend Rumford Group Homes’ lease for another year. Oxford County Commissioner Scott Cole said Wednesday commissioners had decided to offer the nonprofit a year-to-year contract that would be re-evaluated each spring. “They looked at it and said, all things considered, […]
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Oxford County questions lease renewal for Paris homeless shelter
PARIS — Oxford County commissioners might not renew a five-year lease it has with Rumford Group Homes for a county-owned property in South Paris when the lease runs out in October. Rumford Group Homes uses the second floor of the two-story house at 40 Western Ave. as a homeless shelter for young men. The first floor […]
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Seames named 2013 local emergency manager
PARIS — Bonnie Seames, emergency management director for Norway, has been recognized by Oxford County commissioners and the county’s Emergency Management Agency for her work over the past year. In a ceremony Tuesday, Seames was presented with a plaque from the Oxford County Emergency Management Agency, naming her 2013 Local Emergency Manager. In a statement […]