OTISFIELD — U.S. Cellular will not build a communications tower in Otisfield. Nearly 16 months after the Planning Board approved the application by U.S. Cellular to construct a 180-foot communications tower on Scribner Hill to accommodate equipment for cellphone companies and the town’s Fire Department, the issue is dead and the town still has no […]
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OHS plans to renovate basement of the Otisfield Town House
OTISFIELD — The Otisfield Historical Society hopes to use $22,606 from the Sybil Lamb Trust Fund to finish off the interior of the new basement of the Otisfield Town House. President Henry Hamilton said Monday that the organization needs at least 25 more signatures to meet the 115 signatures legally necessary to place a citizens […]
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School board recommends $35.9M SAD 17 budget
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Board of Directors approved a $35.9 million budget Monday, a 2.23 percent increase from the 2012-13 budget. The budget is about $783,000 more than last year’s. New expenditures include $419,000 for the district’s share of teacher retirement, $350,000 in negotiated salary increases and $438,000 in health insurance increases. Superintendent Rick […]
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Eugenia Swanton Horton
1916 – 2013 WEST PARIS — Eugenia Swanton Horton, 96, slipped away to be with her beloved husband, Bob, on Friday, May 3. The younger of two children, Eugenia was born in Dexter, July 30, 1916, to George Eugene Swanton and Alice May Larrabee. Genie graduated from N.H. Fay High School in 1934 and from […]
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Norway road, park clean up NORWAY — The Norway Parks & Recreation Department will join with the Art Gouin Street Clean Up to hold the annual Community Spring Clean Up of town roads and Lake Pennesseewassee Park on Saturday, May 4. From 8 to 11 a.m. work will consist of picking up branches and raking […]
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Fish barrier training to be offered
OXFORD — A stream crossing and dam inventory to assess fish passage barriers in the Little Androscoggin River watershed will begin in May with a training session for volunteers to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 10, at Oxford Town Office, 85 Pleasant St. Alex Abbott, Gulf of Maine Coastal Program, […]
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May Friendship Day at church OXFORD — May Friendship Day will be celebrated by Church Women United at 2 p.m. Friday, May 3, at Oxford Congregational Church. The program is titled “Swinging Wide the Doors of Hospitality.” Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. World’s Fair clean-up days announced WATERFORD — Members of Waterford World’s […]
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Otisfield tar sands hearing set for May 29
OTISFIELD — The public is invited to attend a May 29 forum to discuss the possibility of bringing tar sands slurry from Alberta, Canada, through Western Maine via the Portland-Montreal pipeline. Sponsored by the Otisfield Conservation Committee, the forum will be held at 7 p.m. at the Otisfield Community Hall on Route 121. Otisfield residents […]
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Boxberry School open house OXFORD — An open house will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at The Boxberry School, 301 Webber Brook Road. The school offers an alternative approach to elementary education. Discover the Oxford Hills’ most creative, independent school, where learning is an adventure. For information call 743-9700 or […]