Norway Maine
Oxford County Regional Recycling to implement single-stream recycling program
NORWAY — Oxford County Regional Recycling is gearing up for a single-stream recycling program at the beginning of the new year — and if the effort works, Norway and Paris residents may follow suit sometime early next year. Vern Maxfield, chairman of this year’s budget committee in Norway, said he expects the change will come, […]
Babysitting class is June 30
NORWAY — Stephens Memorial Hospital Family Birthplace will offer a Safe Sitter class from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 30, in the Harper Conference Center in the Ripley Medical Office Building, 193 Main St. Safe Sitter is a medically accurate, hands-on instructional program designed for young adolescents that teaches boys and girls how to […]
Pigeons come home to Odd Fellows Hall, roost
NORWAY — The pigeons are back in the Odd Fellows Hall on Main Street. A broken first-floor window on the back side of the vacant building appears to be the access point, and it’s not the first time they’ve gotten in through broken windows. In July 2013, building owner Sam Patel was notified by Code […]
Solar energy to give off-the-grid Norway garden a power boost
NORWAY — Workers at the Alan Day Community Garden have begun installing solar panels to completely power the off-the-grid site. The solar energy is expected to power nearly everything used at the garden, according to its director, Rocky Crockett. The panels will be hardwired to low-watt LED lights in a tool shed, a barn and […]
Fundraiser to help restore windows of Norway’s Gingerbread House
NORWAY — The Friends of the Gingerbread House has initiated a new fundraiser in its effort to restore the Main Street landmark. The “Sash for Cash” program will be launched from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the house. Board members will talk about the project and accept donations. Each donor of […]
Norway board OKs electric-car charger for downtown
NORWAY — Selectmen have approved installing an electric-car charger at the kiosk on Main Street. Fred Garbo of the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway owns an electric car and said having a charger in town is a good investment. There are approximately 150 electric cars in Maine and the number is growing, he […]
Light the Garden: An elegant outdoor evening at the Alan Day Community Garden
NORWAY — The Alan Day Community Garden will hold its second annual summer fundraiser “Light the Garden,” from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at the garden, 26 Whitman St., across from the Norway Grange. The event will celebrate the culmination and mark the end of a month-long online silent auction. The auction will […]
Norway market move paying off for local farmers
NORWAY — It’s hard not to imagine that when Darcy Winslow holds aloft a daisy-yellow-colored one-pound block of butter churned from the milk of one of her cows, she sees a bar of gold. The butter, made from raw milk at Winslow’s High View farm in Harrison, is part of the bounty of local produce, […]
Norway Library to hold summer morning book club
NORWAY — On Tuesday, June 24, at 9 a.m., Norway Memorial Library will host a discussion of “Benediction” by Kent Haruf, the first of four literary novels selected as finalists in the 2014 Maine Readers’ Choice Award. Subsequent discussions of the finalists for the MRCA will be held July 8, July 22 and Aug. 5 […]