WEST PARIS — Even as community support and aid poured in, doubt remained Tuesday over the long-term future of a 21-member extended family displaced when a fire razed their sprawling farmhouse. Tuesday dawned with increasing donations from local residents, who supplied the multiple families living at the Ellingwood Wood address with basic goods: a warm meal, […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Casco: Select board, 6:30 p.m.Community Center Lovell: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Oxford: Comprehensive Plan, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office West Paris: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Board of Assessors, 6 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Special Town Meeting, 7 p.m., […]
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West Paris families united after blaze destroys home
WEST PARIS — Wearing donated clothing, three young boys giggled as they kicked a deflated basketball around the soot-covered yard, skirting the edges of the farmhouse razed to just a water-filled basement. Dumbfounded, bleary-eyed and trying to make sense of the surreal, homeowner Donald Hodgkin stared at the ruins of his house, whose doors he […]
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Late-night fire destroys home in West Paris
According to WMTW, the fire is believed to have started in a pellet stove. No other details are available at this time. WEST PARIS — A blaze late Saturday night destroyed a single-family home, leaving 21 people homeless. Approximately 60 firefighters from 13 area towns responded to the fire at 5 Ellingwood Road, which started […]
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Collection of Maine woods books visiting West Paris Library
WEST PARIS — An outstanding collection of books celebrating the Maine woods is on display in the West Paris Public Library’s conference room. These books are on loan from the Maine State Reference Library, to compliment the current exhibition of historical logging photographs from the Bethel Historical Society. The Maine State Library collection will be […]
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Household hazardous wastes to be collected Saturday
BETHEL — On Saturday, Sept. 20, between 9 and 11:30 a.m., residents in the Bethel area will be able to bring their unwanted poisons, pesticides and oil-based paints to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection at the SAD 44 Bus Barn. Residents with household chemicals that have been sitting under kitchen sinks or in basements and […]
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New Paris commercial space to boast drive-through ice cream shop
PARIS — Plans are underway to construct a new ice cream shop with a drive-through window at 56 Main St., within walking distance of the downtown. The site is a dirt patch but will soon boast a 2,500-square-foot ice cream parlor with interior and exterior seating. The idea is the dream of West Paris resident […]
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‘Early Female Doctors’ program at West Paris Historical
WEST PARIS — West Paris Historical Society will host an author talk by Annette Vance Dorey on Monday, Sept. 15. She will speak about her research and the women who fill her recent book, “Maine’s Pioneering Female Physicians, 1850s-1920.” Why was it so hard for females to gain admission to medical schools? Which early colleges […]
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Car club to hold cruise-in OXFORD — The Uptown Cruizahs Car Club will gather from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at Tractor Supply, Route 26, for their end-of-season cruise-in. DJ “Red Wing” will be on hand playing tunes of the past and present. Club members will be busy throughout the day providing […]
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American Legion to meet PARIS — South Paris American Legion Post 75 will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10. Hamlin Library, Museum meeting PARIS — Hamlin Memorial Library & Museum will hold a board meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at the library, 16 Hannibal Hamlin Drive. Members will be discussing, among other […]