Norway Characteristics
Norway enjoys a great number
of facilities and services located close to downtown. Oxford Hills
Comprehensive High School, the 3rd largest high school in the state,
offers model programs and abuts the proposed Main Street Maine Program
area. The Western Maine University and
Technical College Center is located in an historic building on the high school
campus. Within Norway are two banks, a
hospital, a career center, art galleries, public buildings, hardware stores, a
grocery cooperative, a radio station, two newspapers, post office and a public
TV station, as well as retailers. New
Balance Footwear, who employ over 230 people, has a factory outlet store on
Main Street. C.B. Cummings manufactures
wooden dowels and employ an average of 40 people, and is located within walking
distance to Main Street. Most of these
businesses have survived the struggling economy and are currently sustained by
the community. Downtown Norway
functions in the fall, winter and spring on income generated within a 25-mile
radius. In the summer, tourism and
summer residents provide an increase in local sales, but not enough to sustain
the area throughout the remaining months.
