NEWRY — More than 2,300 bicyclists are registered for the 30th annual Trek Across Maine, which leaves Sunday River Ski Resort on Friday and goes for 170 miles to Steamboat Landing in Belfast on Sunday. It’s the largest American Lung Association cycling event in the country, raising $22 million in the past 29 years. Kathryn […]
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Newry Planning Board approves 4 applications, tables another
NEWRY — Planning Board members unanimously approved all but one application before them Wednesday night. Work on that application — George J. Kelly and Diane Whitten’s four-lot Mountainside Homes subdivision project — was tabled at the request of the applicant. The board approved the site plan for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School’s proposed building […]
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Road contracts signed in Newry
NEWRY — Selectmen on Tuesday signed a contract for road repairs and another for sealing cracks on a section of Sunday River Road and in the Bear River Grange Hall parking lot. Selectmen also decided when they should get paid, after Administrator Loretta Powers read a resident’s complaint about the matter. Bethel contractor D.A. Wilson […]
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River Valley agenda
Tuesday Dixfield: RSU 10 districtwide budget vote, 6:30 p.m., Dirigo High School Newry: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Board of Assessors: 7 p.m., Municipal Building Wednesday Newry: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Region 9 School of Applied Technology board, 6:30 p.m., River Road school Rumford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Municipal Building conference room Thursday […]
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Newry residents, officials learn options at meeting with SAD 44 supt.
NEWRY — SAD 44 Superintendent David Murphy met for 90 minutes Thursday night with about 25 Newry officials and residents who asked him how to change the school-funding formula and how to start the school withdrawal process. Murphy also shared insight on steps the district is taking to get grants to fund innovative programs at […]
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Reporters notebook: Reader to reporter, ‘Stick to newspapers’
LEWISTON — Recently, I interviewed Rosaire “Rosie” LaFontaine, who graduated from Edward Little High School 75 years ago with the Class of 1939. The story is scheduled to run early this week. At age 93, LaFontaine is sharp and has a good sense of humor — and he’s blunt. He told me he was happy […]
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Newry Planning Board: Subdivision application still not complete
NEWRY — Planning Board members visited a 7.9-acre parcel off Mountain View Road on Wednesday night to learn where a new road extension will be built to access three planned lots. The board then met at the Newry Town Office to consider George J. Kelly and Diane Whitten’s Mountainside Homes subdivision project, but found its […]
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Newry board to place two road-paving projects out to bid
NEWRY — Selectmen decided Tuesday night to place paving work for Skiway and Monkey Brook roads out to bid. Skiway Road is to be paved from Sunday River Road to the end of Skiway Road, a distance of 6,000 feet. Monkey Brook Road is to be paved from its end to its intersection with Sunday […]
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Newry board learns 1916 Bear River Grange Hall chimney built without a flue
NEWRY — Selectmen learned nothing’s ever simple in Newry nowadays Tuesday night from Administrator Loretta Powers. A contractor hired to do chimney work last week at the Bear River Grange Hall, which was built in 1916, discovered that the chimney has no flue. Powers said nobody knows when the chimney was built, but it can […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday NEWRY: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office PARIS: Oxford County Commission, 9 a.m., courthouse RUMFORD: Board of Assessors, 4 p.m., Municipal Building RUMFORD: Northern Oxford Regional Solid Waste Board, 5 p.m., Municipal Building RUMFORD: Charter Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Building WOODSTOCK: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office WOODSTOCK: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday NEWRY: […]