With songs like Tooty Ta, My Mother is a Baker, I Know a Chicken, and Eensy Weensy Spider, youngsters took the stage on June 11 at the Mountain Valley Middle School in celebration of the 40th year of Maureen’s Preschool.

Friday morning, Oxford Hills Middle School seventh graders Rachel Chase, Dalton Cheever, Jeff Worster and Owen Orlando, along with their languauge arts teacher, Jaime Toohey, and Tommy Tompkins of Carthage visited with the student body of Mountain Valley Middle School to challenge them to participate in the Great Viking Challenge Muddy Trail Run and Obstacle […]

Michelle Pardieu looks on as her daughters, Destiny Therrien and Itianah Pardieu, and her mother, cancer survivor Sandra LaVerdiere, make luminaries for the River Valley Relay For Life held from 4 p.m. on May 29 to 1 p.m. on May 30. The girls made luminaries for their grandfather, William Blanchard, while Sandra made one to […]

On May 6, students and staff at Mountain Valley High School rode an emotional roller coaster during the school’s two-day event – Every 15 Minutes. For most, the ride started with a student pulled out of a class by the Grim Reaper and Rumford Police Sergeant Tracey Higley reading the student’s obituary. The next day, […]

On May 6, students and staff at Mountain Valley High School began an emotional roller coaster during the school’s two-day event – Every 15 Minutes. For most, the ride started with a student pulled out of class by the Grim Reaper and Rumford Police Sergeant Tracey Higley reading the student’s obituary. The ride passed through […]

During the Child Advocacy Day at the Rumford Eagles on May 2, Norman Lewis of the Maine Warden Service asked someone to hide over the banking, then sent his service dog, Clyde, out to track him. Following the demonstration, Lewis shared what Clyde went through to do his job.

During Child Advocacy Day at the Rumford Eagles on May 2, Mexico Police Explorer Advisor Brittany Gaudet helped five-year-old Alyssa Richards through the bicycle rodeo course as Alyssa’s grandmother, Brenda Neider, looked on.

In a tremendous showing Friday evening, more than 400 people crammed into the banquet room at the Eagles to support Ashleigh Merchant, a 17-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis. The benefit, put on by her school, Mountain Valley High School, included a spaghetti supper, an auction and dancing. Many people wore purple as this was the […]

When was the last time you took your parents or your grandparents out for something? A Dec. 19-21 live radio play to be performed at 49 Franklin may just be the perfect occasion during the holiday season. Step back in time, at 49 Franklin’s Mystic Theater, where you’ll attend a live performance of a radio […]

On Friday afternoon, some 30 volunteers gathered assembly-line style at the Praise Assembly of God Church to put together 88 Thanksgiving baskets before delivering them in the community the following morning. There’s a lot of work involved, both in gathering the food and then putting the baskets together, but the church is very good at […]