OXFORD — Bearfoot Realty, 698 Main St., welcomes Pamela Theriault to its team. Born and raised in the Gray-New Gloucester area, Theriault moved to Buckfield when she was 12 and graduated from Buckfield High School in 2001. She also graduated with an AAS degree in business from Central Maine Community College in 2003. She started […]
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Holiday cheer
Oxford Hills Middle School seventh graders said thank you and happy holidays to the Oxford Hills community by handing out their decorated bags free to Hannaford customers as they entered the store. Each decorated cloth bag also had a student poem in it. Three of the students spreading holiday wishes are, from left, Kaylee Dow, […]
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M. Newell: All about personal choices
I was insulted by the editorial about Paula Deen (Jan. 20). If we overeat, it is our own fault. If we smoke, it is our own choice. If we drink too much, it is our own fault. According to the editorial, Deen is creating obesity in this country by promoting her southern cooking and encouraging […]
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Maurice Edward York, Jr.
AUBURN — Maurice Edward York Jr., 70, of Oxford, died Sunday, Jan. 22. He was born Nov. 27, 1941, in Oxford to Maude (Pike) and Maurice York Sr. Jr. attended school in Oxford and remained on the homestead in Oxford all of his life; he enjoyed hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, camping, walking, picking berries and working […]
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H. Kauffman: Nuanced warfare
One must admire the moral subtlety of 21st-century warfare. In the olden days, men met on a battlefield bearing clubs. The clubs, wielded with maximum force, split open enemy skulls, leaving the battlefield awash in blood and brains. That was morally primitive and, thankfully, is unknown in modern warfare. Today, it is possible to see […]
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Students see fossils, meteorites up close
OXFORD — Students from the Boxberry School had an in-school presentation of fossils and meteorites recently. Wrapping up the semester’s learning expedition on dinosaurs, Boxberry parent, Bruce Barrett, brought many specimens of fossils and meteorites from the private collection of the Stifler Family as well as some of his own collection. The students viewed fossilized […]
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Oxford casino manager named, more hires coming
OXFORD — The local casino announced Thursday the hiring of its vice president and general manager, Jack Sours. Sours, 45, has been working in casinos since 1999, when he was hired as a financial analyst for Isle of Capri Casino in Colorado, according to his online profile. By the end of 2005, he’d move up […]
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Oxford to hold hearing on Oxford Plains gathering permits
OXFORD — The town will hold a public hearing Thursday for a mass gathering permit for Oxford Plains Speedway. The hearing is set for 6:30 p.m., before the Board of Selectmen meeting. The permit will cover the 2012 Oxford Plains Speedway schedule and the Oxford 250, Town Manager Michael Chammings said Wednesday. The board is […]
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Demand is up at Oxford food pantry
OXFORD — As the months have grown colder, the number of families coming to the Helping Hands Food Pantry in the Oxford Town Office has been growing. The pantry, which offers dry and fresh foods as well as toiletries to Oxford and Hebron residents experiencing financial difficulty, has helped hundreds of families since opening in […]
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Paris school might burn wood waste in future
NORWAY — Oxford Hills School District officials may save money by burning waste wood in the high school furnace in the future, district facilities director David Marshall said. “We’re guaranteeing for five years (that we’ll) burn a specific type of (wood) chip,” he said of the furnace contract specifications. Once Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School […]