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Paris Public Library to host Deering Memorial open house
PARIS — The Paris Public Library will host an open house of the former Deering Memorial Methodist Church from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 25. The open house will afford everyone in the Oxford Hills area an opportunity to explore the unique building and envision how it could be used to benefit the community. […]
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Floster to participate in state geography bee March 31
PARIS — “What ocean is New Zealand in?” Paris Elementary School fifth-grade student George Floster was asked at the school’s geography bee. “The Pacific,” he replied. And with that answer, Floster became the winner of the bee. Floster, the son of John and Lisa Floster, is a former basketball and baseball player, who likes to […]
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Lewiston man pleads guilty to drug trafficking, sentenced to 180 days
PARIS — A Lewiston man was sentenced Friday morning in Oxford County Superior Court to 180 days to the Department of Corrections on a charge of unlawful trafficking in cocaine. Willis Joseph, 29, of 88 Bartlett St., pleaded guilty to the charge. As part of the plea agreement, Assistant Attorney General David Fisher told Active-Retired […]
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N.Y. men charged in Paris drug bust
PARIS — Bail was set at $10,000 Wednesday in 11th District Court for a New York man charged with aggravated trafficking in heroin and cocaine. Dennis “Rocky” Roman, 36, of Brooklyn, New York, was one of two men arrested Tuesday at an apartment at 2 Paris Hill Road in Paris where drug agents found $5,000 […]
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Maine Veterans Home names Terry Boissonneau as Veteran of the Month
PARIS — Terry R. Boissonneau has been named the Veteran of the Month at the Maine Veterans Home. Boissonneau served in the U.S. Army, being drafted Sept. 28, 1965, and was honorably discharged on July 7, 1967, achieving the rank of E4. He was born on July 3, 1945, and grew up in Westbrook, graduating […]
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Paris Public Library's Novel Idea Book Club to read 'Stella by Starlight'
PARIS — Paris Public Library’s Novel Idea Book Club will next discuss “Stella by Starlight” by Sharon Draper. The book club is based on Maine Humanities’ Not for Children Only Book Discussion. The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. “Stella by Starlight” takes place in the segregated South in Bumblebee North Carolina […]
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Oxford Hills Middle School students engineer chairs
PARIS — Sitting on a chair out of newspapers and tape can be comfortable. At least that’s what some Oxford Hills Middle School students think. With the assistance of the Sun Journal, which provided the newspapers to the class, the students built chairs as part of the Quest project in Zac Knight’s science class. “On […]
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Paris woman provides art, spiritual care to orphans in Ecuador
PARIS — The Rev. Sarah Shepley believes her recent mission trip to bring art to orphans in Ecuador was the convergence of her passions. Shepley, of Paris, is a full-time artist and an ordained interfaith minister since 2011. She spent a little more than a month in Ecuador, bringing her arts ministry to orphans and […]