PARIS — Police burned a stash of spoiled marijuana — valued at half a million dollars — seized in a raid last year in an apparent case of medical marijuana abuse that has yet to yield charges. Paris Police Department Det. Jeffrey Lange said Monday that the medical marijuana had wilted, molded and decomposed inside a steel vault […]
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Robert Douglas Haddock
1946 – 2015 NORWAY — Robert Douglas Haddock, 68, of Bethel, died Monday, July 20. Born Aug. 4, 1946, in New Rochelle, N.Y., Bob graduated from Ridgefield High School in Connecticut in 1964; studied psychology at St. Bonaventure University in Olean, N.Y., ranking fourth in a class out of 405; and graduated in 1969 from […]
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’70s band reunites to raise money for Norway Opera House
NORWAY — There will be dancing in the street when the band Creation Completed re-creates itself in August. More than 45 years after six students from Oxford Hills High School created the rock band in the late 1960s, Alan Bean, Bill Holden, Rob Baker, Dave Ryerson, Karan Shaw and Annie Somers have reformed to raise […]
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Charles R. Niskanen Jr.
1954 – 2015 LEWISTON — Charles R. Niskanen Jr., 60, of Auburn died Wednesday, July 15, at Central Maine Medical Center. He was born in Lewiston, Sept. 15, 1954, the son of Charles and Audrey Bartlett Niskanen Sr. He attended schools in Norway and graduated from Oxford Hills High School in 1973. He worked at […]
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Thoma Joline Rowe
1934 – 2015 NORWAY — Thoma Joline Tracy Rowe of Oxford died July 19, 2015, in Norway. She was born in Lewiston on June 6, 1934, daughter of Arthur Hugh and Cleona Perkins Tracy. She was a member of the Paris High School, Class of 1952. She and her husband, Charles “Bud” Rowe, were married […]
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Lightning strike sparks Norway shed fire
NORWAY — Firefighters believe lightning is the culprit behind a fire that gutted a storage shed on Pleasant Street on Sunday evening. The strike blew a detached electrical box from which a power cord ran to the shed at 466 Pleasant St., Norway fire Chief Dennis Yates said Monday. The resulting fire gutted the shed, destroying […]
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Frances ‘Marie’ Dyke
1931 – 2015 NORWAY — Frances “Marie” Dyke, 84, of Swansea, S.C., and a lifelong resident of Norway, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 16, at Stephens Memorial Hospital with her daughters at her side. Marie was born in South Paris on April 17, 1931, a daughter of George E. and Mamie M. (Cummings) Currier […]
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Ralph L. Millett
1935 – 2015 AUBURN — Ralph L. Millett, 80, of Waterford died Saturday afternoon, July 11, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on Jan. 6, 1935, in Waterford, a son of George Raymond and Grace (Dearborn) Millett. He attended Waterford schools and at a very early […]
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Norway board to eliminate six parking spaces
NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen on Thursday unanimously approved an amendment to the traffic /parking ordinance that will reduce the number of parking spaces on Main Street by about six. The board agreed to institute no parking from the corner of Pikes Hill Road and Main Street north 200 feet on the Advertiser-Democrat side […]
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Larry L. White
1939 – 2015 NORWAY — Larry L. White, successful businessman, devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, succumbed in his valiant battle against Parkinson’s disease on Tuesday, July 14. He was 75 years old. Born in Lewiston on Dec. 3, 1939, to Melvin and Helen (Hardy) White, Larry moved with his parents to Hudson, Mass., as […]