Norway News

NORWAY Every weekday around noon, downtown Norway sidewalks become the exercise track for numerous groups of business people who lace up their sneakers and walk for health.

For Dundee Pratt of Norway her business is picking uptrash that is, but her life's goal is yet unfulfilled.

Pat Ingersoll, owner of Iron Moose Farm in Norway, rides her horse Fred, who is pushing 100 in people years.

The New England School of Communications is happy to announce the students who received Honors and High Honors for the Spring 2012 semester.

A man who admitted setting fire to a boarding house last year will serve 15 years for the crime.

Andrea Burns, president, Norway Downtown, holds the award the organization received as a Downtown Network Community, while board members Brenda Melhus and Scott Berk, and Norway Town Manager David Holt, look on.

Selectmen have decided that charitable road tolls would be extended from two hours to four, after a resident who's been conducting road tolls since 1995 said that "two hours is awfully short." "We've always requested a five-hour window, but always stopped at four because everybody got fatigued," said Bob Schott, who in 2002 was approached by state ... (more)

Despite Paris' decision to delay a one-year trial for sharing police services with Norway, Town Manager David Holt told selectmen at their May 17 meeting that he is hopeful the proposal will move forward, saying he feels bad that the "opportunity may be missed." On May 14, Paris selectmen voted to remove an item from the town meeting warrant asking ... (more)

A group of volunteers is planting trees this week to uphold a deed's provision that rows of trees must be maintained at the city's public park on Brunswick Avenue.

Applicants behaving badly: Local HR pros offer their hiring horror stories and advice on taking the chill out of your next job interview AUBURN - The booking procedure at the Androscoggin County Jail, including a mug shot, strip search and dressing in inmate scrubs - just got longer.

The proposed merger between Norway and Paris police departments has been put on hold following a unanimous vote by Paris selectmen to remove the issue from the town meeting warrant.

The theme of an upcoming musical adaptation of M.L. Rose's "The Road to Eden's Ridge" strikes similarities to local efforts to save the Norway Opera House.

PARIS Katey Branch grew up in Virginia but has since settled in Maine. She now works as a massage therapist and will soon be teaching yoga.

Wednesday, August 8 - "Burnt Into Memory: Stories of the 1947 Brownfield Fire" Greater Lovell Land Trust 7:30 p.m. LOVELL - A Virginia storyteller says that she's so impressed by the work of local storyteller Jo Radner that it's inspired her to pursue her own storytelling.

NORWAY Birders saw 28 species in two hours during the 21st annual bird walk at Roberts Preserve earlier this month.

Investigators from three different agencies are taking a closer look at last week's suspected arson at a local boarding house after someone tried to burn the place down again late Sunday night.

A South Paris woman was taken to a local hospital early Sunday morning following a crash on Hebron Station Road.

"MaineHousing Authority has regularly inspected, and passed, housing units that don't meet HUD's quality standards." Montoya's letter is an interim update of the Office of Inspector General audit of Maine State Housing Authority .

Town Manager David Holt said he's stunned that local taxpayers will have to pick up more than $275,000 of the Oxford Hills School District budget in 2012-13. "It was a shock.

A fire that began in a back stairwell of a boarding house on King Street in Norway is currently being investigated by the Maine Fire Marshal's Office as arson.