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Paris residents asked to weigh in on budget cuts
PARIS — Selectmen have vowed to let residents do the talking about cuts in the current budget after an unanticipated mill rate jump has upset many people. Residents are invited to voice their ideas and concerns at next week’s budget workshop, which will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, July 27, at the Town Office, […]
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Paris art show postponed
PARIS — The Moore Park Art Show, originally scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday, has been postponed. Aranka Matolcsy, director of the show for the Paris Parks and Recreation Committee, said Saturday that expected inclement weather canceled the show, which was to be held near Route 26 and Park Street. The show’s new date has not […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Oxford County court system rollout needs patch
PARIS — A few weeks ago, Oxford County Jail Administrator Edward Quinn found himself in a bind. As he relayed it to Oxford County commissioners on Tuesday, new Unified Court Docket procedures required him to simultaneously transport prisoners from across the state to courthouses in Rumford and Paris so they could appear before a judge. He was supposed […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Oxford County Sheriff’s Office calls
PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 273 calls from July 13 to 19. Among them were: * At 7:24 p.m. July 19, an unknown cellphone caller made a 911 hang-up call, telling police that a male was injured in a dirt-bike crash in the area of Valley Road. Deputy Richard Murray checked […]
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School takes hat off to students learning public policy
PARIS — A group of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School students want to convince School Administrative District 17 directors that hats belong in the classroom. Four OHCHS Student Council members, representing the entire student body, presented their arguments for allowing students to wear hats in the classroom before the Policy Committee last week. The Policy […]
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Risica wins Paris run-off election
PARIS — A month and a half after a tied election between two candidates vying for selectman in Paris, Mike Risica was declared the winner of the run-off election Thursday night with a margin of nearly 70 votes. The election was between Planning Board member, EMT and firefighter Zac Creps. Risica received 211 votes to Crep’s […]
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Police: Woodstock suspects confessed to burglaries
PARIS — Two Oxford County suspects charged in a burglary spree that terrorized several small communities for weeks confessed to stealing from 11 homes, according to a police affidavit. Oxford County Sheriff’s Detective Joshua Wyman wrote that police became suspicious of the suspects, Ashley Howard, 20, of Bryant Pond, and Corey Douzart, 32, of Gilead, after […]
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Creps and Risica vie for selectman’s seat, again
PARIS — Today voters will get a chance to untie the knot that resulted in a draw between two selectmen candidates last month. The run-off election between Mike Risica and Zac Creps will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, Thursday, July 23, at the Paris Fire Station, 137 Western Ave. During the […]
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Thoma Joline Rowe
1934 – 2015 NORWAY — Thoma Joline Tracy Rowe of Oxford died July 19, 2015, in Norway. She was born in Lewiston on June 6, 1934, daughter of Arthur Hugh and Cleona Perkins Tracy. She was a member of the Paris High School, Class of 1952. She and her husband, Charles “Bud” Rowe, were married […]