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River Valley
News and information about the River Valley area from the Sun Journal.
Posted inMaine, River Valley
Should Poland Spring tap Rumford? Fear of trucks, drought and a ‘Goliath’
RUMFORD — Colin Smorawski, a Massachusetts native and Maine College of Art grad, was cooking at a Portland restaurant when he saw an ad for 98.6 acres that backed onto Mount Dimmock. “I saw it on Craigslist, believe it or not, when I was looking around and daydreaming about farms we could try to own,” […]
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Hall Farms: Dairy Farm of the Year
EAST DIXFIELD — Hall Farms has been named the 2016 Maine Dairy Farm of the Year by the New England Green Pastures Program. The participating farms were judged on their financial management, production levels and quality and their overall contribution to the agriculture community. Hall Farms has been home to the Hall family since it […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Rusticating on Round Pond: The Woodsum’s Field Camps
For nearly two centuries, the Alder River Ponds in Greenwood and Woodstock —North Alder, South Alder and Round Alder, which are known today simply as North, South and Round ponds — have played a major role in the area’s economy. Samuel Locke built the first dam on the Alder River, about 500 feet above the […]
Posted inMaine, River Valley
Should Poland Spring tap Rumford?: The lure of jobs, money and new pipes
RUMFORD — At the rate it’s growing, Poland Spring is going to need a fourth Maine bottling plant. Janice Crawford hopes the company keeps Fryeburg in mind. The Fryeburg selectwoman is a fan of Poland Spring and what it’s done for her town since it started drawing water there in 1997. She considers it a […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
Rumford police log
• Sept. 29, 10:43 p.m.: Thomas Milligan, 61, of Winterport, Connecticut, arrested on Route 108 by Patrolman Lawrence Briggs on a charge of operating under the influence and operating while license suspension. Milligan was taken to the Rumford Police Department and released on $400 cash bail. He is scheduled to appear in Rumford District Court […]
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Mexico police log
• Sept. 28, 9:57 p.m.: Officer Dean Benson responded to a vehicle off Roxbury Road near Casey’s Auto Sales. Lisa Jamison, 50, of Roxbury fell asleep at the wheel and her 2010 Hyundai SUV veered into a ditch and into woods. Jamison was injured; the damaged SUV was towed. • Sept. 24, 11:20 a.m.: Officer […]
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University College celebrates new space in Rumford
RUMFORD — University College at Rumford/Mexico celebrated the opening of its new center on the third floor of the River Valley Technology Center at 60 Lowell St. on Wednesday. The highly visible, centralized space will serve not only as a beacon of academic aspiration, but as a space that will welcome the school’s neighbors and partners, […]
Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Public hearing on recycling referendum Oct. 18
NEWRY — The town will hold a public hearing at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Town Office to go over the wording of the Oxford County Regional Recycling referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot. The referendum, if passed, will dissolve the Oxford County Regional Recycling Corp. because escalating transportation costs and a […]
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Dixfield to hold hearing on wind ordinance
DIXFIELD — A public hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday in the Community Room at Dirigo High School on repealing the 2012 wind power ordinance and allowing the state to regulate wind power in town. Voters will decide the issue at the polls Nov. 8. The Wind Energy Facility Ordinance was written after Patriot […]