Transportation to vets job fair NORWAY/PARIS — A veterans’ job fair will be held Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Lewiston Career Center. Transportation from Norway/South Paris is available, for a nominal fare, on a first-come/first-served basis, by calling Western Maine Transportation Services at 800-393-9335 before noon on Monday, Jan. 14. The regular adult fare is […]
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Round table leader: Work together on SAD 17 budget
PARIS — Board of Selectmen Chairman Sam Elliot said this week that everyone will have to work together to solve the growing school funding situation in Oxford Hills. The remark comes several weeks after he refused to recognize the chairman of the Oxford Hills School District Board of Directors at a round table of selectmen […]
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Woman pleads guilty to beating child
PARIS — A former local woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court to beating a 5-year-old girl with her hands and a hairbrush in 2011. Tabitha Whalen, 24, of Portland, pleaded guilty to one charge of assault, Class C, for assaulting the daughter of her ex-boyfriend. She received a three-year deferred disposition in […]
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Responsible Pet Care raising money for new building
NORWAY — Although Responsible Pet Care received some recognition lately, it’s still fighting for funding to move from a crowded local building to a former school in Paris the group says is better suited to its needs. RPC has been announced as the winner of the Oxford Hills County Chamber of Commerce’s 2013 Community Service […]
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Swingin’ Bears to dance Jan. 12
The Swingin’ Bears Square Dance Club of South Paris invites all square dancers to its first dance in 2013. It will be held as usual at the Oxford Hills Middle School, 100 Pine St., South Paris. Ray Hilton, pictured, club caller who comes from Saco each week to teach class and workshop on Wednesdays from […]
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Master Gardener registration PARIS/MEXICO — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is once again offering the very popular Master Gardener Volunteer training in 2013. For the first time the course is being offered in two locations: Thursday evenings at the South Paris Extension office and Wednesday afternoons at Region 9 Technical School in Mexico. “The […]
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KVCC GIS Course begins Jan. 7 FAIRFIELD — Geospatial technology, such as in Google Maps or MapQuest or GPS, is growing in importance every day, and a new course offered by Kennebec Valley Community College, Geographic Information Systems I, will teach students about the field and the job options associated with it. Geographic Information Systems are […]
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Veterans remember Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona
PARIS — In December the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris hosted a special Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day event, the unveiling of a piece of the USS Arizona that sank 71 years earlier. Of the more than 2,500 service members killed during the Japanese attack, almost half died aboard the Arizona. MVH and the Western […]