WOODSTOCK — Registration is open for Becoming an Outdoors Woman Spring Mini Workshop on May 21 at the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond village. Topics include bass fishing, canoeing, trapping, riflery, primitive skills, fly-casting, archery and beekeeping. The cost is $85 and includes instruction, equipment and lunch. The program […]
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Logging truck, van collide in Woodstock; drivers escape serious injury
WOODSTOCK — A Rumford man received minor injuries Tuesday morning when his van collided head-on with a four-axle logging truck on Route 26, police said. Shayne White, 50, of Rumford was driving north on Route 26 in Woodstock when his 2006 Dodge Caravan crossed the centerline and struck a loaded logging truck driven by Kyle […]
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Fire destroys mobile home in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK — Complications with a wood stove is the suspected cause of a fire that destroyed a mobile home on Curtis Hill Road on Friday morning, officials said. All occupants escaped without injury, officials at the scene said. The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause. Six fire departments responded to the call at 212 […]
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Cost-sharing formula change: what it means for Woodstock residents
WOODSTOCK — Taxes on a $100,000 home would increase if a cost-sharing formula for School Administrative District 44 is approved by voters. The formula is based 100 percent on property value. Under the proposed change for 2017-18 and 2018-19, it would shift to 90 percent property value and 10 percent student enrollment, hiking taxes on […]
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State Police settle in Woodstock base
WOODSTOCK — Maine State Police will have a greater presence in Woodstock after settling into an office at 366 Route 232, Town Manager Vern Maxfield told selectmen at their meeting Tuesday. Maxfield said PACE ambulance employees and one or two state troopers will use the building for the foreseeable future. The town volunteered the building […]
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SAD 44 cost-sharing referendum explained
BETHEL — Voters in Bethel, Greenwood, Newry and Woodstock will decide Nov. 8 whether to change their school district’s cost-sharing formula in two steps over three years. A School Administrative District 44 Cost Sharing Committee, which is made up of one school board member, one selectman and one member at large from each of the […]
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Woodstock selectmen to hold public hearing on cost sharing
WOODSTOCK — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to hold a public hearing on School Administrative District 44’s cost-sharing formula. The hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Town Office. Selectman Ronald Deegan said it’s important that Woodstock residents know all the facts and understand what they are voting on and the results should […]
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Woodstock town manager says Whitman Field repairs nearly complete
WOODSTOCK – Town Manager Vern Maxfield told selectmen Tuesday that repairs to the Whitman Field backstop, grandstand and dugout are nearly complete. “The (fixes) look really good,” Selectmen Ron Deegan said. “I went down there and the trim around the dugout looks great.” Deegan said at the board meeting in July that he was driving past […]
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Woodstock board donates $1,000 to baseball team
WOODSTOCK — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday evening to donate $1,000 to the Tri-County Babe Ruth 14-and-under team, mostly made up of Oxford County children. The baseball team, coached by Gary Williamson, Tom Morton and Janek Luksza, came within a victory of becoming national champions in 2015, and are seeking another run at […]