PARIS — In the wake of a crash that killed two local teens in January, two groups have sprung up to warn teens of the dangers of distracted driving. The Distracted Driving Awareness group and the Impaired Driving Awareness Group of Oxford Hills are two groups with the same purpose: Stop the dangerous driving habits […]
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Odd Fellows Lodge added to historic register
WEST PARIS — The West Paris Lodge 15, IOOF, has been entered in the National Register of Historic Places according to Earle G. Shettleworth Jr., director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. This designation indicates that the property has been documented, evaluated and considered worthy of preservation and protection as part of the nation’s cultural […]
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First Universalist Church lists February services
WEST PARIS – The First Universalist Church of West Paris will greet the shortest month of the year and lengthening daylight with thought-provoking revelations in their service themes. Services are presented with a combination of Worship Service Committee members and guest speakers. All are welcome to attend; services are 9 a.m. every Sunday until mid-June. […]
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When Words Kill: Maine starts sending message: Texting & driving is lethal
In the theater at Poland Regional High School, Owen Smith Jr. shared statistics, listened to students’ stories and played a short documentary of teens disabled and dead from texting while driving. Afterward, more than 50 seniors signed a pledge never to text and drive. Two days later and 25 miles up the road in West […]
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West Paris forest conserved in memory of former owner
WEST PARIS — Another large parcel of land in West Paris has been saved from development under a conservation easement between the family of the late Maurice G. Benson and the Western Foothills Land Trust. Late last month, Marcia Benson of Saugus, Mass., donated a conservation easement protecting 182 acres of managed forest lands in […]
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A. Pelletier: A tragic losss
The fatal accident in West Paris has brought out the best and the worse comments in the online edition of the Sun Journal. We are all so incredibly saddened by this tragic loss of young lives — our emotions are overruling our common sense and prematurely denying due process of the law. Folks are blaming […]
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Finnish treasures displayed at West Paris library
WEST PARIS — The Finnish American Heritage Society of Maine is exhibiting Finnish treasures at the West Paris Public Library on Main Street through February, society President Dale Piirainen said. Tea pot warmers with reindeer fur trim, a wooden rooster, a birch bark star ornament, a colorful knit hat and scarf, wooden skies and a […]
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Driver in West Paris fatal crashed car earlier, witness says
WEST PARIS — New details emerged Tuesday in the drunken-driving crash that killed two teenagers in West Paris around midnight Friday. The man who rented the house where the driver attended a party before the crash was arrested early Saturday morning after refusing to allow police with a search warrant to enter one of the […]
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Logan D. Dam
WEST PARIS — Logan D. Dam, 19, of West Paris died Saturday, Jan. 7. He was born in Norway, April 27, 1992, the son of Douglas Dam and Deborah Ann Sande. He attended Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School and had been employed at Sunday River and Camp Wigwam as a chef and line cook. He […]