KABUL — Even though Army Spc. Brandon Fogg has barely left the square mile inside his Afghanistan base for the past six months, he’s lived through some close calls in his effort to help fight the War on Terror. The 21-year-old Hebron resident is a signal intelligence analyst, working in a control room in Kabul, […]
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To battle: Buckfield Bots wage war against Styrofoam
BUCKFIELD — No one wants to be a carbon sasquatch, or at least that’s the message the Buckfield Bots want to get across in their quest to get Styrofoam trays removed from their lunchrooms and replaced with something more health- and eco-friendly. The campaign stemmed from the Buckfield chapter of First Lego League’s take on this […]
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The Fox School in Paris is slowly getting heat back
PARIS — Interim Town Manager Sawin Millet is cautiously optimistic a temporary solution has been found to heat the Mildred M. Fox School after the boiler went down over the weekend. The pellet boiler at the three-story brick building school at 10 E. Main St. in Paris hasn’t worked properly since Sunday night, he said. The […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … fireball over Oxford Hills
HEBRON — There wasn’t necessarily smoke on the water, but there was fire in the sky Sunday evening over Hebron and most of Western Maine. A fireball that streaked across the sky alarmed at least one caller, who reported the incident at 5:15 p.m., according to Jim Miclon, director of communications for the Oxford County Regional […]
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Fish fly into remote lakes and ponds in Oxford Hills
NORWAY — Hundreds of brown trout went for a one-way airplane ride, on a beautiful fall morning Monday, to their new habitats in six remote Oxford Hills lakes. “They swim the whole way down, headfirst,” Tim Knedler of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department said of the trouts’ sudden ejection from the water-filled […]
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Software paves way for road plan, property data availability in Harrison
HARRISON — The Town of Harrison is embracing the electronic age by utilizing computer programs that will allow anyone to search available properties in town and road mapping software that creates a plan and budget for future projects. Town Clerk Melissa St. John gave a presentation to selectmen at their Thursday, Sept. 24, meeting about the […]
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Helping the world teaches Harrison resident Tucker Johnson about helping Mainers
HARRISON — It took Harrison resident Tucker Johnson at least three trips around the world to realize that he can effect change right here in Maine. Come September, he will embark on his fourth humanitarian trip — this time to India — before he eventually returns to and settles in his home state. Johnson was recently named a […]
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Rock down to electric avenue to eco-friendly vehicle expo in downtown Norway
NORWAY — Those tough Oxford Hills inclines may leave you huffing and puffing and thinking you need to hit the gym. While training will help, there’s an easier way out — the electric bike. The public will get that chance to try those out on Saturday at the first ever Electric Vehicle Expo in downtown […]
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Searching for a stream of gold: Proposed regulations would close some Maine waterways to motorized mining
Some recreational gold prospectors aren’t shouting “eureka” at Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission’s proposed changes that would close off certain bodies of water to motorized equipment used in mining the mineral. The commission voted at its Jan. 14 meeting to post the proposed Chapter 10 revisions to the National Recreation and Park Association’s Consistency and […]
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Western Maine rail service project chugs along
By Erin Place PARIS—Members of the Androscoggin-Oxford-Coos Counties (AOCC) Passenger Rail Coalition were recently told their goal of bringing passenger rail service from Portland to Montreal and commuter service in Western Maine to Portland via Lewiston/Auburn is at minimum six to eight years down the track. Patricia Quinn—the executive director of the Northern New England […]