PARIS — After deliberating for four hours, an Oxford County Superior Court jury Friday awarded James Walsh, 43, formerly of Brownfield $250,000 for physical and mental injuries after being shot by his neighbor in 2010. The jury also ordered the neighbor, Keith Brain, to pay Walsh’s medical expenses and lost wages. “I think the verdict was […]
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Two Brownfield men charged with drug trafficking
BROWNFIELD — Two men were arrested Tuesday after police found 24 grams of heroin and hundreds of prescription pills at the home of one of the men, the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said. John Thurston, 45, of 134 Moore Road in Brownfield and Robert Smith, 39, of Lynn, Mass., were charged with aggravated drug trafficking. […]
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Bertha L. Miller
1937 – 2015 BROWNFIELD — Bertha L. Miller, 78, of Brownfield died Sunday, Sept. 27, at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, where she had been living for the past two years. She was born on Mar. 18, 1937, in North Conway, N.H., a daughter of, Chester A. and Molly B. (Douglas) Day. Bertha […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Office calls
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 243 calls from July 20 to 27. Among them were: * At 2:16 p.m. July 26, a deputy was requested to go to the Denmark Road in Brownfield in the area of the green bridge for people target practicing. The caller wanted them to stop shooting their […]
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Dream house? Stoneham family opts for treehouse
STONEHAM — At first glance it seems Josh Ring, a veteran contractor, made an unimaginable oversight installing his front door 10 feet in the air. But Josh and wife Cindy are building a treehouse — or is it a house in the trees? — and his home rests, quite intentionally, above the ground on four live northern […]
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Maine barn built for animals houses growing granola empire
BROWNFIELD — Looming large in the woods on the western edge of Maine, the elongated 1908 barn with a gambrel roof has been used hard. No gentlemen farmers ever gussied it up. The well-worn behemoth with chipped paint, dismantled silos and defunct weather vanes has experienced a century of endeavors. It housed Jersey cows, served […]
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Oxford County log
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 249 calls from June 8 to 16, including the following. * At 8:57 a.m. June 16, Deputy Danielle Welch responded to a complaint about a farmer on Jim Warren Road in Buckfield whose pigs keep escaping from their pens. Welch said she issued the owner a […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Office
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 198 calls from May 26 to June 1. Among them were: * At about 11 p.m. May 30, Deputy Nathan Bowie and Paris police officer William Grover responded to a domestic disturbance on Stearns Hill Road in West Paris. On arrival, Bowie said family members told […]
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Oxford County Sheriff’s Department log
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department responded to 512 calls from May 11 to 26. Among them were: * At 3:29 p.m. May 25, Sgt. Timothy Holland responded to a complaint that a child’s Camo 125cc Tao Tao four-wheeler had been stolen from a Main Street residence in Peru. Holland is investigating. * At […]
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Brownfield sued for failing to post ‘bump’ sign
PARIS — Brownfield has hit a bump in the road — or, at least, a motorcyclist has. A New Hampshire woman is suing the western Maine town over its alleged failure to post a cautionary “bump” sign along the road last summer. In the lawsuit, Eaton Center, N.H., resident Alana MacDonald alleges that the lack of […]