OTISFIELD — The Otisfield Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Old Town House, 53 Bell Hill Road. The program will resemble one last year and is titled “What’s in Those Boxes?” During the evening, several society members will display the contents of one of the society’s archival collections, which […]
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Otisfield family looking to donate picnic table to town beach
OTISFIELD — Selectman Rick Micklon told the board Wednesday evening that he is speaking with a local family who wants to donate a picnic table for the town beach at Pleasant Lake. Micklon said the family temporarily lost their property due to unpaid taxes, and rather than “evicting them, they worked out something with the […]
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Face Time: Grillin' and chillin' with 'Rocket' Ron Demers
OXFORD – For most of his adult life, Ron Demers of Otisfield worked at his father’s business in Lewiston selling leather to manufacturers. He traveled the country, offering his product to everyone from luggage manufacturers to cowboys who performed in rodeos. Nowadays, Demers is more known for the restaurant he runs out of a yellow […]
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Anthony N. Jordan
OTISFIELD — Anthony Jordan, 78, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. Tony was born on Oct. 5, 1939, in Lewiston, the youngest of five children of G. Marshall and Beatrice Jordan. He grew up in the town of Poland with his parents and siblings Eleanore, Bob, Gerry and […]
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Carol A. Franke
NORWAY — Carol Ann Franke, 71, of Otisfield passed away in peace surrounded by family Tuesday, Aug. 21. Carol was born in Quincy, Mass., on Feb. 26, 1947, to Robert and Edith (Williams) Gallagher. She graduated from Weymouth High School in 1964. She and her beloved husband, Donald, relocated their family to Otisfield in 1975, where […]
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Otisfield culvert work to close part of Route 121
OTISFIELD — A section of Route 121 will be closed to all through traffic from 6 a.m. to about 5 p.m. Tuesday to replace a culvert near Bell Hill Road. Ted Talbot, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation, said the the closure will be about a quarter mile north of the Bell Hill Road. […]
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State Street Traditional Jazz Band
The State Street Traditional Jazz Band is bringing its authentic Preservation Hall jazz to the Bell Hill Meetinghouse in Otisfield starting at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19; doors open at 6. The public is invited to an evening of relaxed but vibrant jazz, with its origins in New Orleans in the 1920s. They play musical […]
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Otisfield beach reopens after water test comes back clean
OTISFIELD — Less than a week after closing the town beach on Pleasant Lake because of E. coli bacteria in the water, Administrative Assistant Anne Pastore said the beach is open again. Pastore wrote on the town’s website that Friday morning’s test of Pleasant Lake “came back clean,” and that the beach would be reopened […]
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Otisfield beach area closed because of bacteria
OTISFIELD — Administrative Assistant Anne Pastore told selectmen Wednesday evening that that the town beach on Pleasant Lake will be closed until further notice because of E. coli bacteria in the water. Pastore said she recently was notified by residents that children swimming in the lake were getting sick after getting out of the water. […]
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Pitts is kidding us
Somehow I do not think columnist Leonard Pitts solved his problem? in trying to decide whether to be a liberal or a conservative. He is kidding us. He never had a problem with that question. He is a liberal and always has been a liberal as his columns through the years will attest. He is […]