MEXICO — Police Chief Roy Hodsdon said tips from the public played a huge role in Friday’s drug bust that placed three Massachusetts men and three Mainers behind bars. “The tips are what does this,” he said. “Without that help, it really makes an investigation hard. These are long investigations and they take a lot of […]
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Prom Connection receives 80 dresses
Kathy Boothby poses with a few of the 80 donated dresses made to Prom Connection. All the dresses will be available for free to students from both Mountain Valley and Dirigo high schools from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, at the Rumford Eagles Club, 13 Oxford Ave. RUMFORD — More than 80 dresses […]
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UMF professors remember senior during annual symposium
FARMINGTON — The Michael D. Wilson Symposium at the University of Maine at Farmington on Wednesday paid tribute to the memory of a Rumford student who died this year before completing his senior research project. “Tyler Daigle, had he lived, would be presenting the results of his senior history research project today,” Allison Hepler, professor of […]
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Poet laureate McNair speaking at Rumford library
RUMFORD — Maine poet laureate Wesley McNair will read his “Poems of Love and Hope” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at the Rumford Library. It marks McNair’s third reading at the library and the third anniversary of the Fourth Thursday Poetry group’s beginning. Light refreshments will be served at an informal reception following the reading. Fourth Thursday is […]
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Second trimester honor roll listed for Mountain Valley High School
RUMFORD — Mountain Valley High School has announced the honor roll for the second trimester of the 2016-2017 school year. High Honors Grade 12: Celina Adley, Jonathan Adley, Chelsea Allison, Andrew Arsenault, Riley Bell, Alecia Bolduc, Ethan Boucher, Brooke Carrier, Peter Cogley, Marissa Crosby, Parker Davis, Baylee Dresser, Natalie Inglis, Abigail LaBrash, Hannah Leonard, Codi […]
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Spring runoff in Rumford
Spring runoff in Rumford The spring runoff this time of year sends the water roaring over the Pennacook Falls in Rumford and past this steel silhouette Native American sculpture, sculpted by the late J. Eugene Boivin.
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Hope Association open house RUMFORD — Hope Association will have an open house from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, April 28, at 85 Lincoln Ave. Donna Landry will be celebrated for 15 years of service and the new day program director and CCM supervisor, Danielle Simmons, will be welcomed. A light lunch will be available. FMI, RSVP: 207-364-4561. Rumford […]
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Rumford Seniors to see ‘Ripcord’ PERU — The Rumford Seniors will bus to Lewiston to see “Ripcord,” a comedy, at 6 p.m. Friday, May 1. Sign up is required by Thursday, April 20. Cost is $42 for members or $47 for nonmembers. Earth Day cleanup for Jay JAY — The Jay Recreation Committee will hold an Earth Day cleanup […]
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Carol A. Sweatt
AUBURN — Carol A. Sweatt, 80, of Peru passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 15, at the Hospice House in Auburn, with her girls by her side, following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Rumford on May 21, 1936, a daughter of Willard and Geraldine (Farrar) Donahue. Carol was a graduate of […]
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Firefighters knock down 12-unit Waldo Street fire
Flames shoot from a fourth-floor apartment window at 201 Waldo Street in Rumford on Saturday evening. Deputy Fire Chief Rob Dixon said occupants of the 12-unit building escaped safely, but a number of pets perished. Flames shoot from a fourth-floor apartment window at 201 Waldo Street in Rumford on Saturday evening. Deputy Fire Chief Rob […]