NEWRY — Selectmen appointed three people to the SAD 44 Withdrawal Committee on Tuesday night. However, when it came time to appoint a selectman to the committee, the process ground to a halt, Administrator Loretta Powers said Wednesday. Questions were raised that prompted the board to get legal advice. The board appointed Bill Andrews as […]
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Nationally acclaimed poet Wesley McNair to visit Rumford Library
RUMFORD — Wesley McNair will read from his newly released book of poetry, “The Lost Child: Ozark Poems,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Rumford Public Library. The Poet Laureate of Maine, McNair is recognized nationally as a distinguished poet and writer. “We’re honored to be the first audience — after Portland — […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Bethel: Water District trustees, 7 p.m., Town Office Buckfield: Public Hearing, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Cemetery meeting, 6 p.m., Town Hall Lovell: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Newry: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Otisfield: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Oxford County Commissioners, 9 a.m., Courthouse […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Bethel: Water District trustees, 7 p.m., Town Office Newry: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Thursday Roxbury: Planning Board, 6 p.m., Town Office
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Newry’s wedding bridge: ‘It’s magical. It’s perfect.’
Free, rustic and available, Artist’s Covered Bridge has become mecca for newlyweds. Covered bridges have always carried a mystical, magical allure for me as a photographer and as an artist who paints and draws them in a variety of different settings. I have photographed several weddings in my photography career, but I had never seen […]
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Newry waiting for state OK to name withdrawal committee
NEWRY — Selectmen and other residents learned early Tuesday evening that the board must wait for permission from the Maine Department of Education before assembling a school withdrawal committee. “The Department of Education sent us a notice saying, ‘You can’t appoint anyone until we tell you to,’” Selectman Brooks Morton said. Believing that the department […]
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Idaho man proposes at Wife Carrying Championship
NEWRY — Shane Arnold of Pocatello, Idaho, didn’t win Saturday’s North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River Ski Resort. But he was the only guy who won a wife-to-be. After carrying his girlfriend, Brandy Bates, also of Pocatello, upside down on his back for 278 yards and crossing the finish line, Arnold popped the […]
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South Paris team wins North American Wife Carrying Championship
NEWRY — Redemption. Four years of second- and third-place finishes in the North American Wife Carrying Championship were wiped away Saturday when Jesse Wall and Christina Arsenault won first place at Sunday River Ski Resort. “Thank God! Finally!” Wall yelled after getting up off the ground. Carrying Arsenault upside down on his back, her legs […]
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Newry resort debuts New England Cornhole Championship Sunday
NEWRY — Joining the North American Wife Carrying Championship this weekend at Sunday River Ski Resort are two new events, the New England Cornhole Championship and Kids’ Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest. The wife carry will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, and the pie eating contest will follow at 3 p.m. between […]
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50 teams to compete in Sunday River’s Wife Carrying Championship
NEWRY — In the fall, Sunday River Ski Resort is the epitome of quirkiness with its hugely successful North American Wife Carrying Championship. This year, they’re also debuting the New England Cornhole Championship and a Kids’ Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest for their homecoming Fall Festival and official winter kickoff weekend, Caroline Ochtera, marketing and events […]