Greenwood News

WEST PARIS a ' A noontime fire in West Paris leveled the wood shop of a local retiree, amounting to a loss of about $30,000. Chief Norman St.

WOODSTOCK a ' Fire crews from several area departments were being called to the scene of a blaze on Old County Road in Oxford County Sunday night.

It's official: Tri-Town Ambulance Service is dissolving. Tri-Town currently serves Greenwood, West Paris, Sumner and Milton Township.

PARIS a ' The Bethel-area school system is suing Woodstock Oil Co., claiming the business failed to deliver a full supply of oil during the 2005-2006 school year.

WEST PARIS a ' A West Paris man whose house on Route 26 was hit by fire Tuesday morning said he was grateful firefighters saved some possessions, including one belonging to his sister who was murdered in Lewiston in 2007.

GREENWOOD a ' The owners of Saunders Brothers mill in Locke Mills have paid a civil penalty of $11,045 for environmental violations discovered at the site by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

LifeFlight was called to a crash in the Bethel area involving two vehicles. Around 6:30 Friday night two vehicles were involved in a crash on Route 26 in Woodstock.

A pair of houses on Route 26 were destroyed by fire early Tuesday, Nov. 16. Here firefighters from Woodstock and surrounding communities work to contain the blaze, which appears to have started in one home and spread to the neighboring building.

Jeffrey Tyler, a volunteer firefighter accused of setting a blaze that destroyed two houses, is led to Oxford County Superior Court on Wednesday.

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

A late morning fire engulfed a couple's mobile home on Tuesday. Firefighters were called to 158 Mechanic Falls Road at about 11:15 a.m. Captain Shawn Cordwell of the Oxford Fire Department said the rear of the building was burning with heavy smoke when responders arrived.

Another volunteer fire fighter in Maine has been charged with arson. 28-year-old Jeffrey A. Tyler of Bethel faces two counts of arson for fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

One night, during September of 1986, Mrs. Irene Stevens heard a loud commotion in the front yard of her home.

Bridgton: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 26 Old North Street at the old Town Hall. Three local questions: approval of a special amusement ordinance, a "pooper scooper" ordinance and a straw poll about fixing up the old Town Hall Casco, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Central Fire Station, one local question to allow the school board to issue bonds to renovate the Lakes ...

Ernie Fitts of South Paris displays his 8-point, 196-pound buck early Saturday afternoon in West Paris.

PARIS a ' A 52-year-old Greenwood man will return to court for sentencing at a later date after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges on Monday.

Three women in a car that was rear-ended early Sunday morning chased the truck that struck them from behind for more than 10 miles and helped police find a suspect who was later arrested.

Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." By this measure, then, the misguided souls who keep pondering the establishment of casino gambling in Maine must indeed be crazy.

L. L. Bean's autobiography begins: Greenwood, Maine, a small upper-Oxford town that no longer exists, was the first place the name "L. L. Bean" ever appeared - the town clerk put it on my birth certificate on October 13, 1872.

Firefighters battle a fire at the home of former Greenwood Selectman Marie Bartlett on Tuesday afternoon.