OXFORD — The SAD 17 Board of Directors approved a $35.9 million budget Monday, a 2.23 percent increase from the 2012-13 budget. The budget is about $783,000 more than last year’s. New expenditures include $419,000 for the district’s share of teacher retirement, $350,000 in negotiated salary increases and $438,000 in health insurance increases. Superintendent Rick […]
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Girls’ lacrosse: EL flurry finishes Oxford Hills
Oxford Hills had erased a small lead and tied Thursday’s girls’ lacrosse game for the seventh time. The time was right for one team or the other to make a move, and it was Edward Little that made the decisive push. The Red Eddies scored four straight and then held off the Vikings in a […]
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OHCHS graduation rate rises for third year
PARIS — High school graduation rates in SAD 17 have increased steadily from almost 69 percent in 2009 to about 86 percent last year. That puts Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School slightly above the statewide average. OHCHS can also boast being one of 14 schools in Maine that graduated 100 percent of its students not […]
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Deciding whether it’s a snow day
LEWISTON — There were moments when Bill Webster wished for snow. About three hours after his pre-dawn decision to call off school Wednesday, the sky looked too empty. “It started out at 7 a.m. or so, snowing. The roads had a light cover on them. And then it stopped,” said Webster, Lewiston’s superintendent of schools […]
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Adult ed offering enrichment classes
PARIS — The Oxford Hills/Buckfield Adult Education program is offering the following enrichment classes for the month of February. Wednesday, Feb. 13 Relationships, with Chris and Paula Easton, 6 to 8 p.m. One session. Tuition is $20. Thursday, Feb. 14 Intuition: Going beyond your sixth sense, with Chris and Paula Easton, 6 to 8:30 p.m. […]
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Girls’ basketball: Rams reject Viking rally
SOUTH PARIS — At halftime Friday night, Nate Pelletier simply asked his team to give themselves a chance. Down by as many as 16 in the first half, Pelletier knew his Oxford Hills girls’ basketball team still had something to say about its game with Cony. “We told the girls at halftime, ‘Come the fourth […]
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Enrichment classes begin Feb. 4
PARIS — Oxford Hills/Buckfield Adult Education has the following enrichment classes beginning Monday, Feb. 4. Mosaic Glass on Glass is 5 to 7 p.m. for nine weeks. Tuition is $50 with a lab fee of $10. A $25 material fee is paid to the instructor first night of class. Tuesday, Feb. 5 Paper Crafting, 5 […]
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Norway chief: Thieves posing as heating specialists
NORWAY — Police Chief Robert Federico said Friday that his department is investigating reports of men ripping off homeowners by claiming to be checking their furnaces and carbon monoxide detectors. In one incident, Federico said, a man asked a homeowner to go downstairs to turn off her furnace so he could check carbon monoxide levels. […]