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    • Winter Games almost here for Special Olympics team

      Jan 20, 2011 12:00 am

      NORWAY — For the last 12 months, a team of Special Olympics athletes from the Progress Center has been training for the State Winter Games, which will be held on Sugarloaf Mountain from January 30 to February 1.

      Athletes in the competition are joined by their oath: "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."

      Priscilla Burnette of the Progress Center says that the team has had it's fair share of success in the competitions.

      "The day after they come back after an event, some of them are weighted down with their medals," said Burnette.

    • Saturday Pond horesepower limits hotly disputed

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      OTISFIELD — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) held the public hearing in response to local petitions for a limit on boat motor horsepower on the waters of Saturday Pond. The selectmen had agreed with some of the petitioners who attended a selectmen's meeting that "something should be done."

      Their concerns were public safety and the safety of the lake's ecosystem, especially the bottom of the shallow body of water. The lake is only 25 feet deep at its greatest depth, and covers 179 acres in what has been described as a "fuzzy H" shape.

    • WMEDC welcomes two new board members

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      SOUTH PARIS — Steve Wight of Newry and Jolan Ippolito of Andover have joined the Western Maine Economic Development Council (WMEDC) Policy Board of Directors.

    • Buckfield safer than ever: report

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      BUCKFIELD — The Town of Buckfield has passed a safety inspection with flying colors, which means that town buildings and work spaces are unlikely to be hazardous to the health of town workers.

      The most expensive repair required by SafetyWorks!, the Maine Department of Labor program that performed the inspection, is the renovation of a staircase in the Fire Department, which is not up to code.

      Town Manager Glen Holmes said that he would get a cost estimate on the renovation.

      There were 11 violations in all, eight of which were considered to be "serious."

    • Wood-to-energy boiler installed

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      POLAND — Officials of the Maine Forest Service and RSU No. 16 gathered recently for the installation of the first wood-to-energy boiler in Maine funded by federal recovery-act monies through the Maine Forest Service.

      The 2.3 million BTU boiler, manufactured by Mawera of Vorarlberg, Austria, will be lifted by crane and placed through the open roof of Poland Regional High School into its permanent location. The work is being done by Northline Energy, managed by Dan Worcester, out of its western Maine offices.

    • TLEA makes major erosion gains on Thompson Lake

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      OTISFIELD — The first year of the Thompson Lake Environmental Association (TLEA) grant project to control erosion from sites in Otisfield was a huge success. Through the hard work of TLEA and its dedicated partners, soil erosion that washes into Thompson Lake was reduced by an estimated 52 tons.

    • Sweeping changes to Public Works in Buckfield

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      BUCKFIELD — On January 4, the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a new job description for the Public Works Superintendent, a move which promises to dramatically change the department.

      In November, Selectman Robin Buswell proposed the job change after he expressed concern over inefficiencies he saw in the town's road crew.

      At the time, Buswell called for a description that would shift administrative tasks from current Superintendent Phil Savage to Glenn Holmes, whose titles include both town manager and road commissioner.

    • Unemployment here and all over

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      NEW ENGLAND – The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics says the unemployment rates aren't good, but they are a lot less bad than they have been — or so it might seem.

      For one measure, according to the Maine Department of Labor's (MDOL) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Maine doesn't have the highest jobless rate in New England. At 7.3 percent, Maine is ahead of Massachusetts, with its 8.2 percent, Connecticut with 9 and Rhode Island with 11.6 percent of the population out of work.

    • Town hit with unexpected sewage bill

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am

      MECHANIC FALLS — A meeting took place on January 7 between the Mechanic Falls Board of Selectmen and the Mechanic Falls Sanitary District to discuss the town's wastewater treatment bill, an amount that did not go down after the removal of 22 of 38 catch basins.

      The catch basins are located under the roads of the town, and in the older designs of sewer systems, like Mechanic Falls, the sewer lines as well as the drainage pipes all run through these catch basins and then flow into the treatment plant.

    • Paris rules on ATV dispute

      Jan 13, 2011 12:02 am
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      Recently, the Spruce Mountain High School girls' varsity basketball team took part in a team camp at the University of North Carolina. They attended the camp on June 28th-30th. They toured Duke University as well as seeing the UNC campus. They played eight games versus teams from all over the East Coast as well as the players attending clinics by the UNC Staff and players.
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