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    • Big dig

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      FUTURE FOUNDATION — Workers show no fear as they excavate the ground beneath 137 tons of Gingerbread House. The house was first laid down on short wooden cribbing structures. As the dirt is excavated, taller cribbing is built that extends from the newly-dug depth to the house. The house is then jacked up and the shorter cribbing is removed before the house is resettled, transferring the weight to the new cribbing.

    • SAD 44 budget passes

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      AREA — On June 21 SAD 44 school district residents approved a school budget of $9,727,300 in just 54 minutes.

      The vote was 82-4 with one blank ballot.

      The next step in the budget process is next Tuesday's public referendum in the district's five towns of Greenwood, Woodstock, Bethel, Newry and Andover. Although the district also serves families in Milton, Albany, Gilead, Hanover and Upton, these are tuition students, so they do not vote on the budget and have no representatives on the school board.

    • Paris voters okay $3.4 million budget

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      CIVICS LESSON — A local brownie troop appeared in force at the Paris town meeting on Saturday to make the case for a safety fence surrounding the playground area of Moore Park.

    • Town may need to do clean up of hazardous site

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      NORWAY — The site where a 100-year-old house on Pikes Hill burned in April will be the subject of a public hearing and may require the town to take an active role in cleaning it up.

      Town Manager David Holt said that an ordinance on unsafe buildings allows the town to intervene when property owners are either unable or unwilling to clean up property that could prove a hazard to other residents.

    • Harbor Road residence to be condemned after theft

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      WOODSTOCK — "It was a cute little house" said Joelle Corey-Whitman, Woodstock's Code Enforcement Officer, of the residence at 15 Harbor Road. Corey-Whitman and Fire Chief Geff Inman plan to condemn the structure after thieves caused a massive oil spill in the cellar by stripping the copper pipes.

      The house has been foreclosed upon and is owned by Wells Fargo. The bank will be paying taxes on the property.

    • Buckfield voters cut services

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      BUCKFIELD — Town leaders presented Buckfield voters with a reduced budget during the town's annual meeting on Saturday morning, but the voters made even deeper cuts to various departments and expenditures.

      Law enforcement services and social service agency funds were eliminated from the budget altogether.

      As compared to last year's budget, the town's expenditures had been cut by 10 percent in the warrant proposed by the town's Board of Selectmen and the Budget Committee.

    • Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      PARIS — Paris residents may be able to take out energy-efficiency home improvement loans, if voters approve an ordinance during a special town meeting on July 25.

      The Board of Selectmen approved the special meeting after citizen Kerry Read made a plea on behalf of the PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program.

      If the ordinance is approved, property owners in the town will be able to apply for a federally-subsidized, low-interest loan to make energy-efficiency improvements to their homes.

    • Movie rental store closing

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      PARIS — Play On, a movie rental store that opened just a year ago at 130 Main Street in Paris, is now closing.

      Owner Doug Van Durme says that the plan is to close at the end of July. He said the store drew enough customers, but that those customers did not rent as often as they did a couple of years ago when the store operated under a different name and different owners.

      He blames the poor economy for the difference.

    • Hebron crash victim airlifted

      Jun 16, 2011 12:00 am

      EMERGENCY FLIGHT — LifeFlight transported Victoria Jipson, 42, of Hebron to Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) in Lewiston after she lost control of the pickup truck she was driving and smashed into a tree on Hebron Station Road. Paris and Hebron firefighters responded. Jipson had been released from CMMC by press time on Tuesday.

    • OUIs

      Jun 16, 2011 12:00 am

      The following driver was apprehended by local law enforcement and charged with Operating a Motor Vehicle While Under the Influence of an Intoxicating Substance (OUI).

      Robert William Reese, 27, of South Paris was arrested on Main Street in Paris at 1:24 a.m. on June 8 by Paris Officer Raymond Paar. Reese was charged with OUI, Violation of Bail Conditions, Driving to Endanger and Operating Without a License. According the Paris Police Department, Reese has two prior convictions for OUI.

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