OXFORD — The Board of Selectmen on Thursday instructed Town Manager Michael Chammings to draft the Ordinance Review Committee’s recommended changes to three ordinances. The committee reviewed the medicinal marijuana ordinance, which does not comply with state law. Chammings said the changes will include reducing the prohibited zone for marijuana grow operations near a public or […]
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Paris board OKs Christmas lights for park
PARIS — Even though it’s more than two months away, selectmen want people to know that the town wishes them a Merry Christmas. At their Monday night meeting, selectmen voted 3-2 to spend $2,000 to light up Moore Park on Route 26 during the Christmas season. The money will cover running electricity to each of the […]
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Woodstock board hires part-time code enforcement officer
WOODSTOCK — The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday evening to appoint Paris Code Enforcement Officer Fred Collins as the town’s part-time code enforcement officer, Town Manager Vern Maxfield said Thursday. The position had been in flux since Norway and Greenwood Code Enforcement Officer Joelle Whitman left the position in August 2014. Bethel Code Enforcement Officer […]
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Androscoggin County officers to target speeders
Speeders beware: Sheriff’s deputies will be patrolling the back roads of Androscoggin County this summer with a watchful eye for those who exceed the speed limits. Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Rielly Bryant applied for a $20,000 federal grant through the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety which will help the department crack down on speeding […]
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Snow, ice, rain collapse two Canadian trucking trailers in Newry
NEWRY — Crews with Canadian commercial trucking firm Enterprises Clément Lavoie Inc. of Coaticook, Quebec, and Newry firefighters spent most of Wednesday dealing with a 53-foot-long trailer that collapsed on Route 26. That Wabash National trailer, being pulled by a tractor-trailer truck, was hauling 39 rolls of newsprint from Canada to the Sun Journal in […]
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New policy has USPS customers seeing red
NORWAY — Some United States Postal Service customers in Paris and Norway are wondering if the postal service cares more about the safety of its drivers than that of its customers. Recently, customers on the southbound side of the road received a letter from Norway Postmaster Mike Anderson telling them they had 14 days to […]
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Two-car collision sends Paris woman to hospital with forehead gash
PARIS — A local woman was transported to the hospital with a minor head laceration after a two-vehicle crash at Route 26 and Paris Hill Road on Friday afternoon. Jessica Foster, 75, was transported to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway with a cut to her head, police officer Michael Dailey said. He said Sheryl Farrington, 67, […]