RUMFORD — Selectmen are expected to hear updates at Thursday night’s meeting on Public Works Road projects and an economic development project. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in Rumford Falls Auditorium. Among additional new business agenda items are requests: * For funding fireworks. * From the Mountain Valley Lyme Disease Awareness Coalition. * From […]
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95 River Valley fifth-graders graduate from Rumford DARE program
MEXICO — Fifth-grade students from Meroby and Rumford elementary schools and Holy Savior School graduated Tuesday night from the Rumford Police Department’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. For the first time in many years, the ceremony was held at Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico because of the leaky roof at Mountain Valley High School […]
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Spring flooding closes several roads in Western Maine
RUMFORD — Flooding in several towns across Western Maine, including Canton, Rangeley and New Sharon, closed roads Wednesday. It wasn’t unusual for this time of year, Teresa Glick, deputy director of the Oxford County Emergency Management Agency in Paris, said Wednesday morning. She said small rivers and streams would soon be cresting and receding if […]
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Bakers wanted for Lumberjack Fest bake-off
RUMFORD — A dessert bake-off will be held at the Lumberjack Fest on Saturday, May 10. Bakers are needed to serve their favorite desserts to the crowds at the festival. Dessert eaters are also wanted to sample and judge desserts in the categories of their choice. Bakers may enter one dessert in each of four […]
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Poodunck Snowmobile Club DIXFIELD — The Poodunck Snowmobile Club will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, April 21, at the clubhouse on Canton Point Road. Election of officers, end of year business, and thoughts for next year will be discussed. All are welcome. For more information, call 562-4690. Mexico Historical spring meeting MEXICO — The Mexico […]
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Rumford woman charged after fight over iPad
RUMFORD — Police said a confrontation over a missing iPad turned violent Monday evening, and a Rumford woman has been charged with aggravated assault charge. Arica Marie Downs, 27, was taken into custody by Rumford police Cpl. Lawrence Winson shortly before 8:30 p.m. and accused of attacking another woman at a Waldo Street apartment and repeatedly […]
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Three charged with dealing heroin in Rumford-Bethel area
RUMFORD — Three men accused of distributing an estimated 500 doses of heroin each month were arrested after raids by Maine Drug Enforcement agents and local police on homes in Rumford and Bethel this week. According to a statement released Tuesday by MDEA Commander Scott Pelletier, agents took William Heller, 61, of Rumford, Jason Howe, […]
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Stephens High School Class of 1946 RUMFORD — The Stephens High School Class of 1946 will meet at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, at the Rumford Center Diner. Stephens High School Class of 1961 MEXICO — Members of the Stephens High School Class of 1961 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 17, […]
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Flood watch for all of Maine
A flood watch has been issued by the National Weather Service for the entire state until Wednesday evening, with significant rain forecast on top of rapidly melting snow and ice. The NWS said Monday that rain will spread across the state early Tuesday morning with the first rains arriving in central Maine after midnight and […]