PARIS — On a sunny day in October, 16-year-old Jasmine Roundeau found herself in full firefighting gear, high up on a ladder, smashing in a window with an axe as she simulated venting air during a fire on a second floor of a building. While there wasn’t any actual smoke or fire, there were smoke […]
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Paris American Legion invites Gallant as featured speaker for Veterans Day event
By Matt Daigle PARIS — The Foster-Carroll American Legion Post 72 will host and sponsor a Veterans Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11 at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, said Commander Sarah Glynn. Glynn, a retired United States Navy Commander who has been practicing law since 1999, said that “every few years,” the Norway, […]
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Oxford Hills School District to reapply for funding to construct new schools
By Leslie H. Dixon PARIS — SAD 17 officials will reapply for state funding to construct a new middle school and file a new application for funding to construct a new elementary school to replace Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said. The state Department of Education announced last month that a […]
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Student organizes Dryland 5K to benefit Oxford Hills ski team
NORWAY — Morgen Ray hopes that people will join him in pounding the dirt trails during the Dryland 5K he organized at Roberts Farm Preserve – the same place he practices skiing during the winter. The race is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the preserve, at 64 Roberts Road in Norway. Registration […]
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Help wanted carving pumpkins at McLaughlin Garden in Paris!
PARIS — Calling all pumpkin carvers! The McLaughlin Garden and Homestead needs help carving roughly 600 pumpkins for the 2016 edition of the Jack O’Lantern Spectacular. On Monday, Oct. 17, volunteers will head to Slattery’s Farm in West Minot – one of the event’s sponsors – to pick the gourds for the annual event, said […]
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Halloween fun abounds in the Oxford Hills
OXFORD HILLS — The Oxford Hills will echo with spooks and goblins and pumpkins and treats on Friday, Oct. 28, as the annual Norway Halloween Festival and Moore Park Halloween Party attract young and old from near and far. Paris After a smashing success in 2015 (and not pumpkin smashing, mind you,) the More at […]
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Alumus Robert Campbell named to Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School’s Hall of Honor
OXFORD HILLS — Robert Campbell, Oxford Hills High School Class of 1987 from Hebron, will be the first to be inducted to the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Alumni Association’s Hall of Honor on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Homecoming. Campbell earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. He […]
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Area chiefs join Oxford Hills Technical School to develop firefighter program
OXFORD HILLS — As it continues to become harder to recruit enough people to join the ranks of fire departments, local officials are looking at a long-term solution they say can benefit everyone – a junior firefighter program at the high school. Roughly a month ago, local fire officials – including Norway Fire Chief Dennis Yates, […]
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SAD 17 part of Summer Melt pilot
By A.M. Sheehan OXFORD HILLS — Summer Melt. No it’s not a dripping ice cream cone on a hot day. It is a phenomenon educators call the summer melt when high school graduates who plan to go to college never make it. The term has been long used by college admissions offices, according to the Harvard University Center […]
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Inspiration from the ordinary … young writers explore Norway and Paris
OXFORD HILLS — Brandi Farnum whips out her cellphone from her jean shorts pocket and pulls up a photo she took at the Norway Veterans Memorial, dragging her finger across the screen as she reads the name, “Ellsworth G. Farnum.” Farnum, who’s entering ninth grade next month, has stopped in the Advertiser Democrat office with four […]