PARIS — Norway residents passed a $4.6 million municipal budget at their annual town meeting Monday evening, fully funding current services and building reserves for big-ticket items in the future. The budget is $133,651 more than this fiscal year. It includes $225,000, or $25,000 more than this year, for road improvements, and a $10,000 increase in […]
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Norway voters restrict camper occupancy, approve fire substation funding
PARIS — Norway residents voted Monday night to place tighter rules on campers placed on private property and to set aside money to build a fire substation. More than 90 residents were still in the midst of the annual town meeting at 9 p.m., having approved about two-thirds of the articles on the warrant. The proposed […]
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Norway voters asked to limit camper occupancy
NORWAY — Voters at the annual town meeting next week will be asked to approve a $4.6 million municipal budget and make changes to the Building Code that would restrict occupation of campers on private property to 30 days. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, June 15, at the Oxford Comprehensive High School […]
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Norway voters ban fireworks
NORWAY — Fireworks have been banned in Norway. Starting Wednesday, June 10, consumer fireworks are banned in Norway except with a special permit after voters agreed with the citizen’s petition on a 214 to 156 vote at Tuesday’s annual town election. The vote means that anyone using, possessing with the intent to use or selling […]
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Karen Angel Richard
1950 – 2015 LEWISTON — Karen Angel Richard, 65, of Oxford, went to her heavenly home, Saturday morning, May 30, at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. She was born on Mar. 30, 1950, in Lewiston, a daughter of George and Doris (Austin) Grady. Karen attended local schools and held various small jobs, but her […]
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Norway asked to vote on fireworks ban, town officials
NORWAY — Voters will choose a selectman, a fire chief and two school directors, and decide on a school budget and a fireworks law at the polls Tuesday, June 9. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Norway Fire Station at 19 Danforth St. For the School Administrative District 17 Board […]
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Norway candidates talk issues, money
NORWAY — Races for two SAD 17 directors and a selectman will be decided by voters Tuesday, June 9. Directors Jared Cash of Cushman Woods Road and Stephen Cummings of Orchard Street are being challenged by political newcomer Michael Marshall of Round the Pond Road. Selectman Russ Newcomb of Country Club Road is in the race […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m.,Town Office Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office New Sharon: Jim Ditzler Memorial Library Board of Trustees, 7 p.m., public hearing on updated Internet Safety policy Paris: Conservation Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Board of Assessors, 3 p.m., Municipal Building Salem Township: SAD 58 Board of Directors, 7 p.m., […]
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Downtown Norway’s Family Fishing Festival reels in 85 children
NORWAY — Saturday was catch-and-release day for turtles inadvertently taking bait while 85 youngsters armed with fishing poles tried to catch newly stocked brook trout in the Lake Pennesseewassee Stream pool at Butters Park. Temperatures in the 80s likely kept 172 of the 175 fish from biting during the second annual Norway Family Fishing Festival […]
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David N. Day
1959 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — David N. Day, 55, of South Paris, died Friday, May 22, at his home. David was born in Norway on Sept. 3, 1959, to the late Norman Day and Fay Tripp Day and was a 1977 graduate of Oxford Hills High School. He later went to culinary arts school […]