FRYEBURG, Maine — Oxford County commissioners and other officials heard from Fryeburg residents a second time at the American Legion on Tuesday about concerns over the closure of Fryeburg’s Registry of Deeds office on Portland Street.
While the county is moving with work to close the Fryeburg office in August, residents continue to object to how the county is managing the closure, including plans to move critical records to South Paris, Maine, as well as problems with online access to records and the costs associated with that.
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