DIXFIELD — Selectmen voted to change the town’s electricity supplier to Maine Power Options during Monday night’s meeting. Eugene Skibitsky, town manager, said he researched multiple choices and felt the best deal was through Maine Power Options. Skibitsky said locking in under current rates for the water, sewer and municipal accounts could save the town […]
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Dixfield man dies while snowmobiling to Snow Fest
DIXFIELD — A kind man who made friends with everyone he met lost his life over the weekend. Joey Mann, 46, of Dixfield was reported missing Saturday morning after he was last seen in Greene at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Mann was riding his snowmobile south to meet with his two brothers for races on […]
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Body of missing Dixfield snowmobile rider recovered from river in Turner
TURNER (AP) — Maine wardens say they’ve recovered the body of a snowmobiler who had been missing since leaving his home on Friday. The Maine Warden Service said the body of 46-year-old Joey Mann of Dixfield was located Sunday by a volunteer searcher who spotted what appeared to be a helmet in the Androscoggin River […]
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Dixfield snowmobiler missing in Sabattus area
TURNER — The Maine Warden Service is seeking help from the public in its search for a Dixfield sledder who left his home Friday on a snowmobile. Joey Mann, 46, of Meese Road, left home at 11 a.m. Friday, Warden Lt. Adam Gormely said Saturday. Mann had planned to arrive at Sabattus Pond in Wales […]
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Eva Sassi Taylor
RUMFORD — Eva Sassi Taylor, 102, the former holder of the Boston Post Cane for Dixfield, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, Feb. 5, at the Rumford Community Home. She was born in Rumford, Oct. 26, 1909, a daughter of Vincent and Linda (Bussolari) Sassi. She attended Rumford schools. Eva was employed […]
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RSU 10 gets word of state aid hike
DIXFIELD — Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10 has received preliminary state aid figures that show a significant increase in funding from 2011-12. It’s still not enough to offset the built-in increases, Superintendent Tom Ward said, but the amount is going in the right direction. Last year, the region’s state aid was reduced by a […]
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Ludden Library lists new books, CDs
DIXFIELD — Ludden Memorial Library has listed the following new arrivals. Adult fiction: Down the Darkest Road, Hoag; The Scottish Prisoner, Gabaldon; Scotched, Dunnett; Death Benefit, Cook; Locked On, Clancy; Little Gale Gumbo, Marks; Against the Gates of Hell, Young; Intervention, Blackstock; Rebecca’s Return, Eicher; Rebecca’s Promise, Eicher; One Moment, One Morning, Rayner; 77 Shadow […]
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Eva Sassi Taylor
RUMFORD — Eva Sassi Taylor, 102, the former holder of the Boston Post Cane for Dixfield, went Home to be with the Lord on Sunday, Feb. 5, at the Rumford Community Home. She was born in Rumford, Oct. 26, 1909, a daughter of Vincent and Linda (Bussolari) Sassi. She attended Rumford schools. Eva was employed […]
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Police log
Charges Lewiston * Branden Scott Gibbs, 26, of 649 Newall Road, Durham, warrant, 6:07 p.m. Thursday. * Crystal Marie Carter, 22, of 149 Oak St., warrant, 7:40 p.m. Thursday at that address. * Samantha L. Call, 19, of 172 Pine St., warrant, 7:03 p.m. Thursday on River Street. * Susan Kiralis, 21, of 303 Prince […]
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Rita T. Brown
RUMFORD — Rita T. Brown, 90, died Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Rumford Hospital. She was a resident of Dixfield. She was born in Dixfield, Feb. 12, 1921, a daughter of Joseph L. and Ida (Boivin) Therriault. She graduated from Dixfield High School, Class of 1939. Rita was married in Mexico, Feb. 20, 1943, to […]