AREA — “It’s just wonderful. I don’t know what I’d do without it,” said Nancy Morin as she boarded the Western Maine Transportation Service bus at her home in Paris on Monday morning for a ride to her dentist. Morin is one of dozens of local area people who use the public transportation bus routinely […]

PARIS — SAD 17 directors were told Monday, March 7 that preliminary budget figures indicate a 3.46 percent increase in local taxes may be necessary in order to fund the next fiscal year’s proposed education budget. “If the expenditure budget was final at this point, and the carryover amount and state subsidy amount stays the […]

NORWAY — Local officials say they are being proactive to preserve the downtown Main Street canopy – much of which will eventually be destroyed by the emerald ash borer. “Having trees in the downtown area brings people to the community. It makes it an economic development issue so it’s important to keep that canopy,” Tree Warden Tish […]

NORWAY — Two term Selectman Mike Twitchell has announced he will not seek re-election to a third term on the board of selectmen. Instead, the 56-year-old Democratic Norway resident is looking to unseat State Representative Tom Winsor, a Republican, as representative for District 71, which includes Norway, Waterford, West Paris and Sweden. Twitchell is a drywaller […]