PARIS — The Christmas for Teens Benefit Show has been postponed from Saturday evening to 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Mark S. Eastman Auditorium at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, Route 26, Paris. Tickets are $10 for general admission and are available at Books N Things on Main Street in Norway. All ticket […]
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SAD 17 classes starting later Friday
PARIS — Oxford Hills School District Superintendent Rick Colpitts announced late Thursday afternoon that there will be a two-hour delay in starting classes Friday morning because of frigid temperatures. “Our region is expected to face dangerous wind chills,” he said in a voicemail. “We anticipate there being some difficulty in starting our bus fleet in […]
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Oxford Hills schools eye late start
PARIS — Oxford Hills School District Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the board of directors Monday night that he expects to submit a report to the Curriculum Committee next month on starting classes at the middle and high schools later in the morning. Directors could vote on the plan as soon as February. The decision to […]
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Oxford Hills tech students get hands-on firefighter training
PARIS — On a sunny day in October, 16-year-old Jasmine Roundeau found herself in full firefighting gear, high up on a ladder, smashing in a window with an ax as she simulated venting air on a building’s second floor during a fire. While there wasn’t any actual smoke or fire, smoke grenades mimicked the smoke […]
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Paris man sentenced on firearms, OUI charges
PARIS – A South Paris man pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, and two counts of aggravated operating under the influence. Andrew Bean, 51, was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with all but five suspended, on the drunken-driving charges, and 21 months on the firearm charge. […]
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Bail set at $5,000 cash for Waterford man charged with aggravated assault
PARIS — Bail was set at $5,000 cash, or $500 with a Maine pretrial contract, for a Waterford man charged with head-butting and choking a woman and denying the assault took place. Justin Perry Stanton, 33, was arrested Sunday morning and charged with aggravated assault, domestic violence assault and obstructing the report of a crime […]
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Sweden man pleads not guilty to trafficking heroin
PARIS — A Sweden man pleaded not guilty Monday morning to bringing more than 600 doses of heroin from Massachusetts for resale in Western Maine. Derek Verrill, 27, appeared before Active-Retired Justice Robert Clifford in Oxford County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to Class B unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and Class C illegal importation of scheduled […]
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King, Sheriff Gallant speak at Paris Veterans Day ceremony
PARIS — Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant urged a room of more than 100 people Friday morning to recognize Veterans Day as “a day of celebration, a day of remembrance, a day of thanksgiving and a day of forgiveness.” Gallant, a U.S. Army veteran, was the featured veteran speaker at the ceremony, hosted and sponsored […]
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Sheriff to speak at Veterans Day event
PARIS — The American Legion Foster-Carroll Post 72 will host and sponsor a Veterans Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, retired U.S. Navy Commander Sarah Glynn said. Glynn, who has been practicing law since 1999, said that every few years, the Norway, Paris and Oxford American Legion posts […]