NORWAY — While the old adage tells people the importance of eating your fruits and vegetables, there isn’t one yet that says it’s not good to dump used vegetable cooking oil into the waste stream. Norway-Paris Solid Waste and its board wanted to remedy this problem. This is why they teamed up with the Portland-based […]
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If they can’t find you they can’t help you …
By A.M. Sheehan COUNTY — You like your privacy. You don’t like the new house number the town gave you. You can’t be bothered. Then your house catches fire. Someone you love is in need of an ambulance. You need law enforcement. Minutes matter. If your home is not clearly marked and easily seen from the […]
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Area chiefs join Oxford Hills Technical School to develop firefighter program
OXFORD HILLS — As it continues to become harder to recruit enough people to join the ranks of fire departments, local officials are looking at a long-term solution they say can benefit everyone – a junior firefighter program at the high school. Roughly a month ago, local fire officials – including Norway Fire Chief Dennis Yates, […]
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Oxford sewer online … for Dunkin’ Donuts at least
OXFORD — After nearly three years – which included a number of delays – the Oxford Wastewater Treatment Facility is now online. Town Manager Derik Goodine announced at last week’s selectmen’s meeting the roughly $24 million state-of-the-art plant, located at the Welchville Dam on the corner of routes 26 and 121, achieved “substantial completion” on June 25 […]
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Cinema coming back to Oxford
By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD – The curtain is about to rise again at the former Flagship Cinema in the Oxford Plaza on Main Street. The Flagship Cinema will re-open as early as this summer as FPC (Flagship Premium Cinema) John Crowley, founder and president of the Boston-based movie theater company, told the Advertiser Democrat […]
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Some former Keiser employees of Oxford have jobs, others still looking
By Leslie H. Dixon OXFORD — At least 22 former employees of Keiser Homes have been rehired by other companies after the company shuttered in early May, according to Julie D. Rabinowitz, director of policy, operations and communication with the Maine Department of Labor. Others are expected to attend the Lewiston Career Center Job Fair on […]
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Connecting with other places, people, pathways via passenger rail in Oxford Hills
NORWAY — At the Center for Ecology-Based Economy on Monday, April 4, representatives from the Maine Rail Transit Coalition and Sierra Club Maine urged attendees to call on their legislators and the Maine Department of Transportation commissioner to help bring passenger rail to western Maine. There were roughly 20 people in attendance in downtown Norway […]
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From Hebron to Afghanistan: allies, analysis and … Amato’s
KABUL — Even though Army Spc. Brandon Fogg has barely left the square mile inside his Afghanistan base for the past six months, he’s lived through some close calls in his effort to help fight the War on Terror. The 21-year-old Hebron resident is a signal intelligence analyst, working in a control room in Kabul, […]
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To battle: Buckfield Bots wage war against Styrofoam
BUCKFIELD — No one wants to be a carbon sasquatch, or at least that’s the message the Buckfield Bots want to get across in their quest to get Styrofoam trays removed from their lunchrooms and replaced with something more health- and eco-friendly. The campaign stemmed from the Buckfield chapter of First Lego League’s take on this […]
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … fireball over Oxford Hills
HEBRON — There wasn’t necessarily smoke on the water, but there was fire in the sky Sunday evening over Hebron and most of Western Maine. A fireball that streaked across the sky alarmed at least one caller, who reported the incident at 5:15 p.m., according to Jim Miclon, director of communications for the Oxford County Regional […]