NORWAY — Guy E. Rowe Elementary School students and teachers recently hosted a showcase evening of grade-level and schoolwide standards of literacy. The literacy program was a summation of students’ second trimester learning, skills and projects displayed for their families and other students. Students’ literacy projects were displayed throughout the building — in classrooms, the […]
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Former bookkeeper for Grover Gundrilling sentenced to 2 years
PORTLAND — A New Hampshire bookkeeper has been sentenced in Maine to a little over two years in prison for writing over $1 million in unauthorized checks to herself from two businesses — one in Norway. Janis Woods of Conway, N.H., pleaded guilty in October to interstate transportation of stolen checks and tax evasion. Court […]
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Randall F. “Randy” Millett
1970 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — Randall F. “Randy” Millett, 45, of Stoneham, died peacefully late Tuesday evening, April 14, at the Market Square Healthcare Center in South Paris. He was born on March 23, 1970, in Norway, a son of Wendell and Bonnie (Littlefield) Millett. Randy attended local schools and graduated from Fryeburg Academy […]
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Norway selectmen to open bids for road projects
NORWAY – Selectmen are expected to open bids April 28 on the $1.2 million reconstruction of lower Main Street, it was announced at Thursday evening’s board meeting. Bids for the rehabilitation of Danforth Street near the Town Office will be opened May 12. The combined projects, along with other work such as overlays and refinancing […]
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Local students win SkillsUSA awards
BANGOR — Oxford Hills Technical School students competed at the annual SkillsUSA Maine Championships in Bangor on March 8 and 9. The following students brought home medals: * Bronze in Wedding Cake Decorating: Abby Angevine, Norway, and Cody Dzik, Oxford. * Bronze in Digital Cinema Production: Cody Colley, Norway, and Brandon Pelletier, South Paris. * […]
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Norway medical building gets permit approval
NORWAY – The Planning Board on Thursday unanimously approved, with conditions, the site plan application for an $8.2 million medical office building downtown. “I’m issuing the building permit today,” Code Enforcement Officer Joelle Corey-Whitman said Friday. The move clears the way to break ground on the project by Western Maine Health to construct the building […]
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Oxford Hills walkers make great strides
NORWAY — The walking program begun more than a year ago by the Norway/Paris Active Community Environment Team has produced more than its goal of healthier and more active residents. Two participants met at the weekly walks, got married and hiked national parks in the West on their honeymoon. And a 74-year-old woman finished two […]
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Stonehill student spends spring break doing hurricane relief
EASTON, Mass. — Abigail Morton of Norway will travel to Staten Island as part of Stonehill College’s H.O.P.E Service Immersion Program. HOPE Staten Island participants will do hurricane relief work for those who suffered from Hurricane Sandy. They team up with the Episcopal Recovery team of Staten Island. Hurricane Sandy not only destroyed homes and […]
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Clarence H. Merrill
1925 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — Clarence H. “Sonny” Merrill died Sunday, April 12, at the Maine Veterans’ Home. He was born in Poland on Aug. 8, 1925, the son of Clarence C. and Esther Martin Merrill. After graduating from South Paris High School in 1943, he served as a medic in World War II […]
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Janet Swinchatt
1933 – 2015 TOPSHAM — Jan Swinchatt, beloved wife of Peter and mother of Tom, Karen and Jeff, passed on Friday, April 10, at Mass General Hospital due to a severe case of interstitial lung disease. Jan was born in Lewiston on June 30, 1933, to parents Margaret and Frank Bean. She grew up at […]