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    • Norway voters approve 44 articles on warrant

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      NORWAY — The 44 articles on Norway's annual warrant passed town meeting with almost no dissent on Monday.

      Major investments included $200,000 for a final coat of pavement on roads that were improved with a $1 million bond last year.

      "It's a long, drawn-out process and it will never be done," said Town Manager David Holt. "[The roads] continually get better, but they will never be completely satisfactory."

    • Teachers win national award

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      GROWING MINDS — Buckfield Junior/Senior High School teachers, from left, Annette Caldwell and Gretchen Kimball, recipients of the 2011 Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture Award and 2011 Maine Agriculture in the Classroom Teachers of the Year.

    • General assistance article provokes controversy at town meeting

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      NORWAY — Controversy erupted just once at Norway town meeting, when the article to appropriate $110,000 to general assistance was brought before the town.

      While the article was ultimately passed by everyone in attendance, and the town had virtually no choice but to do so under state law, some in attendance cast aspersions on the integrity of those who use the program.

    • Norway endorses Tarr for solid waste board

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      NORWAY — Norway Selectmen endorsed Paris Town Manager Phil Tarr for the Norway-Paris Solid Waste (NPSW) board of directors, despite their own town manager dropping off of the board.

      Norway's share of the seats on the board is dropping from four out of seven to three this year, and Norway Manager David Holt recommended that Dundee Pratt should retain her seat rather than himself.

      Though Paris, not Norway, must re-appoint Tarr, Holt made it clear to the board that he did not think the Norway board should stand in the way of allowing Tarr to continue.

    • Students apply academic concepts to downtown Norway

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      FRESH SET OF EYES — Sophomores in Brewster Burns, front left, and Peter Toohey's, back left, OHCHS class, entitled "The Human Experience," shared ideas on how to revitalize Norway's downtown.

    • High Street

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

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    • Sumner Fire Department is awarded safety grant

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

      SUMNER — The Sumner Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD) has been awarded a $2,000 Safety Enhancement Grant to purchase new breathing equipment.

      The grant is one of 1,658 awarded by the Maine Municipal Association (MMA) since the program began in 1999. The grants are awarded through the MMA's Worker's compensation fund, and are intended to be used for purchasing "safety equipment or services that assist in reducing the frequency of workplace injuries.

    • Small farms woo summer camps

      Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am

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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.

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