BRIDGTON — An 18-year-old woman accused of manslaughter in a fatal Harrison car crash last year entered no plea Monday in Bridgton District Court. Morgan Kesseli of Paris faces charges of manslaughter, elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon and aggravated driving to endanger. Thomas McLendon, 19, of Oxford was riding […]
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REACH launching sexual assault support group
PARIS — Beginning in September, REACH, the sexual assault center serving Oxford county, Harrison and Bridgton, will begin a support group for women who have experienced sexual assault — whether as children or adults, recently or in the past. The group will meet weekly in the Rumford area for 20 weeks, at no cost. The […]
Deertrees Theatre Festival: Lighthearted musicials enter stage left as theater celebrates its 75th anniversary
HARRISON — The Deertrees Theatre Festival, a tradition for more than a decade at the rustic arts center in the Lakes Region, has a new emphasis this summer. Taking center stage will be lighthearted musical entertainment rather than the dramatic and literary fare presented in years past by the theater celebrating its 75th anniversary this […]
Huskies hold variety sow
It was a howling good time on Friday, May 13, for the Harrison Elementary School’s “Strut Your Husky Stuff Show.” The Huskies howled the fourth-grade Waterford Wildcats to come out and play, too. MC’s Morgen Ray, left, and Mitchell Lisowski, right, wrote their own script and did a wild job introducing the “strut order,” which […]
Build and buy a barrel at Back to the Past
HARRISON — An open house at Scribner’s Mill will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 16, and will feature a demonstration of barrel making, as well as tours of the mill, which also manufactured shingles, lathe-turned handles, clapboards and shook during its years of operation from 1847 through 1962. Visitors to the […]