NORWAY — Hundreds of brown trout went for a one-way airplane ride, on a beautiful fall morning Monday, to their new habitats in six remote Oxford Hills lakes. “They swim the whole way down, headfirst,” Tim Knedler of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department said of the trouts’ sudden ejection from the water-filled […]
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Software paves way for road plan, property data availability in Harrison
HARRISON — The Town of Harrison is embracing the electronic age by utilizing computer programs that will allow anyone to search available properties in town and road mapping software that creates a plan and budget for future projects. Town Clerk Melissa St. John gave a presentation to selectmen at their Thursday, Sept. 24, meeting about the […]
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Helping the world teaches Harrison resident Tucker Johnson about helping Mainers
HARRISON — It took Harrison resident Tucker Johnson at least three trips around the world to realize that he can effect change right here in Maine. Come September, he will embark on his fourth humanitarian trip — this time to India — before he eventually returns to and settles in his home state. Johnson was recently named a […]
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Western Maine rail service project chugs along
By Erin Place PARIS—Members of the Androscoggin-Oxford-Coos Counties (AOCC) Passenger Rail Coalition were recently told their goal of bringing passenger rail service from Portland to Montreal and commuter service in Western Maine to Portland via Lewiston/Auburn is at minimum six to eight years down the track. Patricia Quinn—the executive director of the Northern New England […]
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Focused: Galvin heads to a Midcoast TV station
By Erin Place NORWAY—While it’s hard for longtime Norway Paris Community Television (NPCTV) Station Manager Steve Galvin to dim the lights on his role at the local station, he looks forward to once again tapping into his creativity in Rockport. Galvin told the Advertiser on Monday he was hired as the director of programming and […]