Snowshoe hike on Pleasant Mountain DENMARK — Loon Echo Land Trust will lead a free snowshoe hike at Pleasant Mountain at 9a.m. Saturday, March 11. Hikers will see waterfalls, stunning views and mystical red pine woodland on this 3-mile hike at Loon Echo’s Pleasant Mountain Preserve. The planned route will start at the Bald Peak trailhead, ascending 1,900 feet to […]
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DAC to offer kids’ ukulele camp DENMARK — The Denmark Arts Center will offer kids camps during school vacation, and in February, kids of all ages are invited to take a tropical escape with Maine music teacher, Alice Haefeli. DAC will provide a ukulele for each student to explore. Haefeli will teach songs according to each […]
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Thomas ‘Tom’ Pingree
1950 – 2016 DENMARK — Thomas “Tom” Pingree, 65, of Denmark died unexpectedly, Friday, April 1, at his home in Denmark. He was born on April 20, 1950, in Bridgton, the only child of Elwood Pingree and Elma (Pingree) Lord. He attended local schools, graduating from Fryeburg Academy in 1969. He went on to attend […]
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Daly, Thoma to perform at Denmark Arts Center April 9
DENMARK — Ross Daly, master of the Mediterranean lyra, and wife Kelly Thoma will perform a variety of contemporary modal music at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Denmark Arts Center. The lyra is a bowed fiddle that has more than a dozen sympathetic strings. Straying outside the box of Western scales, Daly encompasses a sound that […]
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One man’s trash is Denmark’s art project that got an NEA grant
DENMARK — The Transfer Station in this tiny town is getting an artist-in-residence. Actually, it’s getting up to eight — one per season for the next two years — all anxious to be trash-inspired. On Friday, the Denmark Arts Center won a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant toward an upcoming $50,000 to $100,000 […]
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Oxford County arrest log
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 192 calls for service from June 1 to 8. Among them were: * At 11:39 p.m. June 7, Deputy Richard Murray received information from an Ossipee Trail address about a possible gross sexual assault that occurred in Porter. * At 10:49 p.m. June 7, a Washburn […]
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Denmark recall petitions valid, town manager says
DENMARK — Residents inched closer toward ousting two of three members of the Board of Selectmen, after garnering enough signatures for a recall vote. Town Manager Daniel Merhalski, who previously said the effort to unseat selectmen is a coup to oust him, said Thursday morning that petitions to recall board Chairman Richard Mason Jr. and Beverly Caparco […]
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Austin Bay: Putin-era Kremlin tests NATO solidarity
Denmark’s Bornholm Island apparently troubles Vladimir Putin’s 21st-century Kremlin war planners as much as it vexed their Cold War Soviet-era predecessors. More on Bornholm’s specifics in a moment, but first let’s cover one more example of Putin Russia’s aggressive wrongdoing. According to an open-source Danish security assessment, in mid-June 2014, three months after Putin’s Kremlin […]
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Denmark residents start recall petition to oust selectmen
DENMARK — Residents have started a petition to recall selectmen in what the town manager said is a preliminary move to force his ouster. On April 7, two petitions formally seeking to unseat Board of Selectmen Chairman Richard Mason Jr. and Selectman Beverly Caparco were submitted to the Town Office. Selectman Ed Enos, whose term expires […]
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Denmark Arts Center to hold Midwinter Beach Party
DENMARK — The Denmark Arts Center’s Capital Campaign recently announced that 115 individual donors have collectively contributed more than $50,000 toward the center’s future. The campaign raised funds for an expansion of the facilities by means of a proposed purchase of a residential property in downtown Denmark. The board and staff of the DAC thank […]