AUGUSTA — Two Paris mines and a famous West Paris miner take center stage Saturday at the 22nd annual Maine Mineral Symposium. Tourmaline, Maine’s state gemstone, is this year’s theme for the three-day educational event Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 15, at the Senator Inn on Western Avenue in Augusta. At 9:15 a.m. Saturday, […]
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Volunteers sought to survey frogs across Maine
WEST PARIS — With frogs already calling in southern and coastal Maine, the rest of the state isn’t far behind. That’s why volunteers are now being sought to survey frogs in West Paris and Bethel and across Maine. “Vernal pools in the warmest areas of the state were hopping, literally, with wood frogs over the […]
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String of fires keeps local departments busy
Volunteer fire departments have been running full steam over the last week as a string of fires in Western and Central Maine. At least six buildings have been destroyed by fire since last Tuesday, including homes in Readfield, Wilton, Otisfield, Harrison and West Paris, and commercial buildings in Norway and Bridgton. Fire crews have also […]
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Oxford deputies uncover West Paris pot operation
WEST PARIS — A local man faces charges of growing marijuana after police found more than 240 plants growing in the basement of his home on Route 219 last week. Joshua L. Adams, 34, was arrested after returning home Jan. 5 to find Oxford County deputies and Norway officers in his yard, Sheriff’s Department Cpl. […]
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Sibling assistance
Rose Breton, 7, of Sherbrook, Quebec, pushes down hard on the handle of the Snow Falls drinking fountain pump as her sister Mause, 10, helps their brother Arnold, 5, get a drink of water. The family stopped at the picnic area in West Paris to have lunch before heading south to Old Orchard Beach for […]
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Oxford Hills loses a friend
Ray Brown was the kind of man who was bound to die doing something he loved. The 66-year-old West Paris man died Friday morning at a Portland hospital, a day after he fell from an overturned sulky at the Oxford County Fairgrounds in Oxford and suffered a head injury. As his friends and family mourned, […]
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West Paris raises tax rate
WEST PARIS — Selectmen have approved raising the property tax rate by a 25 cents. The rate was set at $17.25 per thousand dollars of assessed property Thursday evening by selectmen, Town Manager John White said. It is up from $17 last fiscal year. White said the town’s valuation came in higher than estimates in February when taxpayers […]
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West Paris selectman resigns
WEST PARIS — The Board of Selectmen has voted to accept the resignation of Selectman Peter Collette, who presented a letter to the board Sept. 8 but did not give a reason for his resignation, Town Manager Wade Rainey said. A special town meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, following the selectmen […]