WOODSTOCK — Children who attend the elementary school had an extra day to play outside in the warm sunshine Monday because of a leaking water pipe in the school’s library. SAD 44 Superintendent David Murphy said the leak was noticed late Sunday afternoon by a group of local basketball players who had entered the school […]
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Woodstock man sentenced in burglaries
PARIS — A man who pleaded guilty to burglaries in Andover and Milton Plantation was sentenced to three years with all but nine months suspended and two years of probation Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court. Scott B. Billings Jr., 20, of Woodstock was charged with breaking into a Milton Township home and taking a […]
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N. Willard: Keep religion, state, separate
I will begin with a quote from Ulysses S. Grant: “Religion belongs at the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate.” That is the foundation of U.S. democracy. Yet the religious right constantly attacks the rest of us with their pious […]
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Last name confusion
WOODSTOCK — A story in Friday’s Sun Journal about a forensics lecture should have identified Maine’s deputy chief medical examiner as Dr. Fred Jordan. It was an editing error.
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Doctor talks forensic science in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK — As chief medical examiner for Oklahoma in April 1995, Fred Jordan witnessed the carnage left by the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He’s carried the case with him ever since, he told an audience Thursday at Whitman Memorial Library in Woodstock. Now Maine’s deputy chief medical examiner, […]
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N. Willard: Need for progress
I appreciated the Jan. 29 editorial, in which was described the horror that bullying creates and the need for an anti-bullying bill. It is a shame that John Davis didn’t have a chance to read the editorial before he wrote “Impeach the president” (letter, Jan. 29). I think his letter exemplifies a bullying attitude right […]
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Oxford County arrest log
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: * Joshua W. Appleby, 27, of Woodstock, Jan. 30, theft and violation of bail condition, $400 cash bail, Maine State Police. * Shaunna L. Robblee, 29, of Stow, Jan. 30, failure to appear for operating without a license charge, $150 cash bail, Oxford […]
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SAD 44 panel to study proposals for work at Telstar
BETHEL — The SAD 44 board began the process for a possible major renovation of the Telstar Middle/High School complex by appointing a special committee to review contractors’ submissions. Named were Superintendent David Murphy, board Chairman Sidney Pew of Andover, Facilities Committee Chairwoman Laney Cross of Bethel, part-time business manager Bruce Powell and transportation director […]
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Year of wind coming to an end
RUMFORD — Wind turbines came into Maine with a boom but two projects were able to go online without making a sound this month. Patriot Renewables LLC in Woodstock and Record Hill Wind LLC in Roxbury have commissioned most, if not all, of their wind turbines, meeting their project deadlines for the end of 2011. […]