PARIS — A section of the Fire Station was damaged Thursday afternoon when rainwater poured into the building at 137 Western Avenue. Deputy Fire Chief Mark Blaquiere said the rain and ice on the ground caused water to back up between the fire station and the adjacent Rush Fitness gym and rush under the door by the meeting room, […]
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SAD 17 board moves to make up snow days
PARIS — The School Administrative District 17 board of directors voted Tuesday night to extend early release Wednesdays districtwide by an hour through the remainder of the current school year. The move will make up three of the five snow days the district has had so far and restore Wednesdays to a “regular” school day. The revised […]
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Officials attend emergency drinking water exercise
Police officers, firefighters and municipal employees from Norway and Paris attend an emergency drinking water tabletop exercise at the Paris Fire Station on Thursday. Tom Bahun, deputy director of the Maine Rural Water Association, said the exercise was to ensure that public water and wastewater utilities, fire and police departments, county and state emergency management agencies and […]
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Former Maine woman to serve four years for dealing heroin
PARIS — A former Maine woman identified by officials as the “financial officer” in the largest drug investigation in Oxford County history has been sentenced to serve four years of a six-year prison sentence. Briana Thayer, 29, of Bean Station, Tennessee, was sentenced in Oxford County Superior Court on Jan. 8, more than five years […]
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Paris board votes to hire another full-time Highway Department employee
PARIS — The Board of Selectmen voted 5-0 on Monday night to run an advertisement for another full-time employee for the town’s Highway Department. Interim Town Manager Dawn Waisanen said Road Foreman Jamie Hutchinson reviewed his budget and determined there was enough money to add another full-time employee. Waisanen said she and Hutchinson did “some […]
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Register of deeds to continue preservation work, merger
PARIS — Oxford County Register of Deeds Cherri Crockett is looking to carry on the preservation work of her predecessor and take on her first big task of merging the Paris and Fryeburg offices. Crockett, of Bethel, was elected in November to a four-year term and was sworn in Dec. 31. She succeeds Pat Shearman, […]
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SAD 17 gets state approval for buses
PARIS — Oxford Hills School District Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the board of directors Monday night that the state has approved funding for more buses, which could support a single run if school officials approve. Colpitts said he will approach the Finance Committee to determine how the buses might be paid for and report to […]
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Heather Bickford and Dana Hill recalled as happy, caring
PARIS — Heather Bickford and Dana Hill, who were found dead in their apartment New Year’s Day, were remembered during a candlelight vigil Saturday night as kind, fun-loving people. More than 200 family, friends and people from the community gathered in Moore Park to memorialize the couple, both 31, who graduated from Buckfield Junior-Senior High […]
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Police say suspect stalked the couple killed in South Paris
PARIS — Mark Penley, 49, of Peru appeared in court Friday on charges of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, six months after he sneaked into their apartment at 24 Market Square but decided not to shoot the couple until “I’m ready,” according to a state police affidavit. Penley is charged in the shooting deaths […]
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Ex-boyfriend arrested in killing of South Paris couple
RUMFORD — A Peru man has been charged in connection with the deaths of a couple inside their apartment in South Paris on New Year’s Day. Maine State Police on Thursday night arrested Mark Penley, 49, on two counts of murder in the deaths of Heather Bickford and Dana Hill, both 31. Penley is the […]