The Leapfrog Group, which evaluates hospital performance according to U.S. industry standards, has rated Stephens Memorial Hospital as its top rural hospital five times since 2009.
Nicole Carter
Staff Writer
Nicole joined Sun Journal’s Western Maine Weeklies group in 2019 as a staff writer for the Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser. Later she moved over to the Advertiser Democrat where she covers Oxford Hills communities and School Administrative District 17. She seizes every opportunity to research and write about local history and she enjoys writing features that leave readers with a smile. Nicole graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern Maine with a B.A. in history and concentration in creative writing. She held audience development and marketing positions at several Maine-based trade media companies in the Portland area before taking on community news. When not working she is an avid reader and fiber artist and enjoys observing local wildlife, from snakes and blue frogs to large game and carnivores. She and her husband, Greg, share their secluded homestead in Peru with an assortment of cats, dogs, alpacas and chickens.
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Thieves steal more than ‘just a truck’ from former Waterford family
Former Waterford family’s pride and joy stolen in Kentucky.
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Posted inOxford Hills, Schools & Education
Oxford Hills school board committees present priorities and goals
Curriculum, Operations and Policy committees outline objectives for the coming year.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Patty Hess retires after 35 years of service to Oxford
She is moving to Arizona to be closer to her family.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
PACE Paramedic Service focus of $4 million capital campaign
The 30-year-old building in Norway needs more space and safety improvement, director says.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Organizations rally to celebrate the Little Androscoggin in Paris
Paris River Park’s Clean Water Celebration is a collaboration between the town’s River Park Committee, the Androscoggin River Watershed Council, Western Maine Foothills Land Trust and the Oxford County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Posted inOxford Hills
Patty Hesse retires after 35 years of municipal service to Oxford
Selectmen honor longtime employee.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Paris Elementary School student has his friends’ back (packs)
With help from the community, Bradley Sincyr-Newbert is on a mission to fill 30 backpacks with school supplies to give to fellow students.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat
Paris celebrates 50-year anniversary of the Clean Water Act
PARIS — Paris has marked August 13 as a day of commemoration for the 50th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. The Paris River Park Committee is inviting the Oxford Hills community to a day-long gathering at the park at Paris Hill Road, starting at 10 a.m. where, on land they will host a […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, Schools & Education
SAD 17 forum brings talk of challenges facing Oxford Hills
About 100 people attended the forum, including former school board directors, district staff from building administrators to education technicians and bus drivers, parents, students and alumni, municipal officials and a public library director worried about the communities’ consequences to school consolidation.