PARIS — Christmas is coming to town Friday with the start of the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce’s 8th annual Festival of Trees and Saturday’s Christmas Parade, billed as the largest Christmas parade in Maine. The Festival of Trees, a three-day event, will be held next to Olympia Sports in the Twin Town Plaza across […]
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First Universalist Church announces December worship services
NORWAY — The First Universalist Church of Norway, 479 Main St., has announced its December worship services. Sunday services are at 11 a.m. with social hour following. Child care is available. Dec. 2: The Rev. Fayre Stephenson will present “Moments of Peace.” In the Christian tradition, this is the first Sunday of Advent, a time […]
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Halloween visitors at Norway Health & Rehab
Norway Center for Health & Rehabilitation on Marion Avenue hosted its 24th annual Haunted House, Ghost Walk & Trick or Treat on Halloween night. Trick-or-treater Madison Lamere of Oxford and 200 other youngsters visited the center’s residents.
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Oldest newspaper moves to another old home
NORWAY — It has taken some 150 years for the Advertiser Democrat to find a new home. But this fall, the offices of the Advertiser Democrat moved from its long-time home at 1 Pikes Hill to set up shop in an equally historical and arguably much more beautiful building. The former office, which once bustled […]
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Norway police dog finishing tracking, search training
NORWAY — Officer John Lewis of the Norway Police Department told the Board of Selectmen on Thursday night his police dog, Bolo, is close to wrapping up his training. Lewis proposed in October 2017 the town buy a police dog to track people and sniff out evidence, including drugs. The purebred Labrador retriever, which would […]
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Writer, husband, father impacted many, feared none
NORWAY — Howard James never wanted to be called a journalist. He was a writer. And those who knew him well, say he was one of the best. James, former publisher of the Advertiser Democrat, the Rumford Falls Times, Pulitzer Prize reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, reporter for the Chicago Tribune, author, husband and […]
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Classroom canine
Students from Marsha Wood’s fourth-grade class at Guy E. Rowe Elementary School in Norway on Tuesday pet Belle, a golden retriever who serves as a therapy dog once a week for students who require assistance. (Matthew Daigle/Sun Journal)
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Norway Halloween Festival dressed for success
Patti Schulte (right), dressed as a character from the Pixar film “Coco,” watches as her daughters, Madison and Daphne, take a toothbrush from a Post Office employee during the Norway Halloween Festival. Schulte and her daughters were joined by Sarah Oakley (left), dressed as a Star Trek character, and her one-year old son, Elon Oakley, […]
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Donation helps WMAG to preserve historic local artwork
NORWAY — An effort to preserve and restore historic art from the collection of the Western Maine Art Group has been spearheaded by former WMAG President Barbara Traficonte. Traficonte has worked in cooperation with her son, Steve Traficonte, the owner of a local frame and art supply store, to donate material and labor to rescue and […]
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Twitchell Observatory moved to Norway
NORWAY — An observatory recently rolled through downtown, prompting a lot of double takes from motorists and pedestrians. The Roger Twitchell Observatory was taken from its longtime home on Hooper Ledge on Paris Hill to its new site at Roberts Farm Preserve on Roberts Road in Norway. Bancroft Contracting of Paris moved the dome and base. “Everyone […]