Oxford County News

JAY Two local men are each being held on $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 surety at Oxford County Jail in South Paris in connection to the May 20 robbery of the Big Apple Store on Route 140 in Canton.

A lone casket in the middle of the lighted stage, the dark auditorium filled with classmates, family, friends, emergency response personnel and many local dignitaries.

Selectmen signed a 29-article town meeting warrant Monday night that includes a nearly 6 percent municipal budget increase, along with three proposed ordinances.

Selectmen on Monday directed Town Administrator Arlan Saunders to determine whether the town could contract for dispatch services with an agency other than Lewiston-Auburn 911 or the town of Lisbon.

PARIS Bobby Kennedy, universal health care, the war in Afghanistan, tax reform and Ed Muskie, were some of the topics raised Thursday at a forum for Democratic candidates for the United States Senate.

A young Rumford man accused of stealing two bottles of rum on Wednesday from Hannaford in two incidents 90 minutes apart, remained in a Paris jail Thursday.

Town Manager John Madigan told selectmen Tuesday night that a report from RSU 10 said that the town's school taxes could go up $127,000 for the next fiscal year, which would raise the tax rate by about a $1. The final amount will be known after residents of the 12-town district adopt the school's annual budget in June.

The Grim Reaper taps Mountain Valley High School senior Stephanie Garcia during the high school's Every 15 Minutes event which aims to dramatize that every 15 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol-related accident.

Forestry students from Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico got a lesson this week in reading deeds as preparation for working in the logging business.

Cherry Smith of Ink Plaza holds up a copy of a promotional Thumbs Up! sticker now available for the public to show support for the Envision Rumford! committee's zip line project.

Colleen Teerling , Maine Forest Service entomologist, demonstrates how the emerald ash borer trap works during a press conference at the Bolton Hill Facility in Augusta on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

Beginning May 8, and into the summer, various workshops will be held for business owners and managers to learn how to deliver the best customer service possible in order to attract everyone, including tourists, to the area, says Mia Purcell, program manager of the Western Maine Economic Development Council .

Kristina Lowe, 19, appearing in 8th District Court in Lewiston via video from the Oxford County Jail in Paris, stood quietly by her attorney, James Howaniec of Lewiston, as Justice Donald Alexander explained that her case would go to an Oxford County grand jury.

Maine State Police have charged an Oxford teenager with manslaughter in a car crash that killed two people earlier this year in West Paris.