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Concrete company comes to Oxford
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amOXFORD — For years now, the Oxford Homes property on Route 26 has lain dormant, one more symbol of the region's loss of industrial and manufacturing jobs.
In four weeks, the 45,000 square-foot main building will come back to life, in the wake of an announcement that the property has been sold to MGA Cast Stone.
The New Gloucester-based company produces precast concrete and cast stone for customers throughout the Northeast, and was started by entrepreneur Gerry Hamann in 2000.
Thieves target Oxford junkyard
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amOXFORD — Lashin's Auto Salvage has been targeted twice in the last week and a half by thieves stealing catalytic converters.
Lance Lashin, owner of the salvage yard on Mechanic Falls Road in Oxford, says that nine converters were taken in the two separate incidents. Seven were taken on the night of Tuesday, May 31, and two more on the following Monday.
Lashin says that the converters can be very valuable.
"They pay anywhere from $25 to $135, depending on which ones they are," he said.
Otisfield seeks bids for town office
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amOTISFIELD — Otisfield's selectmen hope to have renovations to the town hall finished by August.
If approved, drafts of the project would create more office space for employees at the town office, move the selectmen's room to a space on the bottom floor, and increase the building's heating efficiency. The drafts were completed by David Hart of Fish Street Design in Fryeburg and approved by the State Fire Marshal's office. With plans complete, the selectmen are seeking bids with the hope that they will be able to select a contractor by June 15.
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Leaders support Opera House efforts
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amNORWAY — Civic leaders expressed their support for the town's efforts to restore the Opera House storefronts during a meeting of the board of selectmen on June 2.
"We have people coming who want to be on Main Street, but they want to be in a presentable building, a building with value," said Andrea Burns, president of Norway Downtown. "With the Opera House, I think we would find viable tenants if it were presentable, but it hasn't been presentable for a long, long time."
A new home for an old house ...
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amNEW HOME FOR OLD HOUSE — After years of planning, thousands of dollars, days of moving, and countless hours of volunteered time, the Gingerbread House finally completed its storied move to its new location on Norway's Main Street on Wednesday.
Top Buckfield students announced
Jun 09, 2011 12:00 amBUCKFIELD — Students at the top of the Buckfield Junior Senior High School graduating class are presented in rank order:
Sumner considers clean energy ordinance
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Mechanic Falls awarded boiler grant
Jun 02, 2011 12:00 amMECHANIC FALLS — On June 14, the voters of Mechanic Falls will decide whether to approve $95,000 in funding for a wood pellet boiler that would be used to heat the town's municipal services.
If approved, the money, which would be expended from the town's general fund, would be used to match a $95,000 grant from a federal grant designed to encourage wood heating solutions.
The project in Mechanic Falls is one of 11 projects in the state that will receive a share of $3.2 million from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.
Buckfield banks on bridge to the future
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