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    • Poorest children hurt by state budget

      Mar 17, 2011 12:21 am

      OXFORD COUNTY — An attempt to bridge the state's budget gap will hurt the children of Oxford County's poorest residents, say social agencies.

      The Maine Families Home Visiting program is under the axe in Governor LePage's new budget, prompting local supporters of the program to say that the cut will have dramatic negative impacts.

      Joan Churchill, the director of family services at Community Concepts, says that a public hearing in Augusta on Friday brought large numbers of supporters of the program together.

    • Firefighters volunteer for many reasons

      Mar 14, 2011 11:00 am

      VOLUNTEERS — Area firefighters assist each other under mutual aid.

    • Snowe-Mello bill would weaken environmental regulations

      Mar 11, 2011 12:00 am

      MAINE — A shoreland zoning bill proposed by Senator Lois Snowe-Mello (R-Poland) is one of several new pieces of legislation raising the hackles of environmental groups in Maine.

      Snowe-Mello's proposal takes aim at an environmental regulation that she says is a violation of the United States Constitution.

      Her bill would change statewide shoreland zoning regulations to allow unregulated new building and development as close as 75 feet to a body of water. The current law sets the restriction at 250 feet.

    • Nateva returns to happy hosts

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      OXFORD — Pottle Road resident Deb Wiles, who said that last year she was "quite ugly" about the prospect of 10,000 music-lovers converging on Oxford for the Nateva festival, is singing a different tune this year.

      Her new opinion is more in harmony with that of Nateva promoter Frank Chandler.

      "It went off the way he said it was," she told the Board of Selectmen on Thursday evening. "I'm here to say that I was wrong, and I'm not embarrassed to say I was wrong."

    • Oxford Hills businesses - It’s a rough ride

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      PIKES – Art Gouin is the owner of LF Pike & Sons in Norway. His daughter, Lesley Dean and great-granddaughter Brynn run the store.

    • Students in pre-k outperform peers

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      OXFORD — Children who begin their schooling at age three or four do better than students who come into kindergarten cold, according to a presentation from SAD 17 administrators that reported on early results from the district's pre-kindergarten program.

      "Of all the interventions we do, this is, I think, the most valuable one," said Principal Jane Fahey, of the Paris Elementary School.

      Approximately 100 pre-k students from seven of the district's eight elementary schools attend classes at sites in Oxford, Paris, Waterford, and Guy. E. Rowe Elementary Schools.

    • West Paris approves $1 million budget

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      WEST PARIS — Try as they might, officials and citizens from West Paris could not stretch the annual town meeting past an hour and a half last Saturday.

      The town voted to approve all of the recommendations from the board of selectmen and budget committee with regard to the town warrant's 38 articles Saturday.

      Residents and selectmen credited Town Manager John White with making the town's warrant more compact and easy to understand, leading to quicker town meetings.

    • Students to establish trailhead in Buckfield

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      CHILLY LESSONS — Science students Alyssa Therriault, left, and Lauren Henderson brave subzero temperatures to determine what type of forest biome surrounds the school on February 4.

    • Waterford voters approve budget

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      WATERFORD — Annual town meeting voters approved a $1.1 million budget Saturday and gave the go-ahead to buy a $147,000 plow truck but nixed a $500 assistance request from the American Red Cross.

      “The Red Cross does nothing for the town of Waterford,” said Tony Butterall, a member of the Finance Committee, who along with other members and residents recommended no money for the agency.

    • Sarah Jane Prentiss: Artist, nurse, selfless

      Mar 10, 2011 12:01 am

      ARTIST, NURSE — These undated photos show Sarah Jane Prentiss, of Paris, who became a nurse so she could care for Maine soldiers wounded in the Civil War.

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