PARIS — Selectmen on Monday rejected a $15,000 bid on the Pine Street Fire Station, the only one it received. The board directed Town Manager Phil Tarr to get quotes from local real estate agents on a six-month contract to buy the old fire station. The one bid for the property came from Devlin Longley […]
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Paris selectmen move to help establish ATV railroad crossing
PARIS — Selectmen on Monday declined to sign a new contract with the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad and other gravel pit owners until they determine whether the Maine Department of Conservation needs anything from the town to reconcile a recreational crossing on Gravel Pit Road. The board voted 3-1 to send a letter to […]
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Paris selectmen put police merger on hold
PARIS — Selectmen put the brakes on a planned merger of the Norway and Paris police departments Monday in order to gather more information. Selectmen may put the question to Paris voters later than the town meeting. Selectmen said a draft of an interlocal agreement on sharing police services wasn’t what they were looking for, […]
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Former N.H. fire chief to serve 90 days for arson
PARIS — A former New Hampshire fire chief who set a fire in a Porter barn on Christmas Eve pleaded guilty to arson Monday in Oxford County Superior Court. Bradley W. Eldridge, 51, of West Ossipee, N.H., was sentenced to three years with all but 90 days suspended for setting a fire in the barn […]
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Industry man pleads not guilty to sexual assault
PARIS — An Industry man pleaded not guilty to gross sexual assault Friday in Oxford County Superior Court. Christian Richards, 18, was transported from the Franklin County jail in Farmington on Thursday to the Oxford County Jail for his arraignment. He is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in February in a vacant building […]
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Mexico man to serve six months for burglary, drugs
PARIS — A Mexico man pleaded guilty to trafficking hydrocodone, burglary and theft Friday in Oxford County Superior Court. Gregg J. Gibbons, 25, of 56 Roxbury Road, was sentenced to four years in jail, with all but six months suspended and two years of probation. He was ordered to pay more than $2,000 in restitution […]
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Six injured in Route 117 collision in Paris
PARIS — More than a mile of Streaked Mountain Road was shut down early Saturday afternoon for about five hours when two pickup trucks collided, sending six injured people to two hospitals, police said. Driver Dillon Soucy, 18, of Oxford, the most seriously injured, had to be extricated by Paris and Oxford firefighters, Paris officer […]
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Volunteer program teaches gardening skills
The Power Propagator program is designed to teach volunteers important skills while at the same time giving participants the satisfaction of knowing that they have helped to maintain this historic public garden. Perry teaches when and how to divide plants, how to replant the divisions, how to choose the right soil mix when plants are […]
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Dems for Senate seat speak to voters in Paris
PARIS – Bobby Kennedy, universal health care, the war in Afghanistan, tax reform and Ed Muskie, were some of the topics raised Thursday at a forum for Democratic candidates for the United States Senate. About two dozen people from the Oxford Hills area listened to former Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap of Old Town, […]
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Sunday topic PARIS — The worship service for Sunday, May 13, at the First Universalist Church on Pine Street will be led by Silver Moore-Leamon. The title of the 10 a.m. service is “Called As Friends.” Music is under the direction of Joyce Franklin and Sunday school is led by Renee Wales. Coffee and fellowship […]