While most towns will forgo related activities, a number of towns will put on fireworks displays for the first time since the pandemic, including Lewiston and Auburn, Rumford, Freeport, Portland and Bar Harbor.
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Sites for new Rumford fire station focus of June 28 workshop
Forum for board, citizens to discuss pros and cons of various locations.
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Rumford downtown celebration on July 16th
“Crazy Days” the theme for daylong event,
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Rumford business owner hosts fishing derby for nursing home residents
Forty people attended the second Warren & Shirley Farwell Catch & Release Day.
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Rumford firefighters knock down fire at ND Paper
It took about an hour to extinguish the fire in the building that housed the tire chip hopper.
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Photo: ‘Snakeman’ shows boa at Mexico library
Rob “Snakeman” White of Mexico has been showing and teaching about snakes for 25 years.
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Mountain Valley High School’s Class of 2021 graduates 66 students
The 66 students making up Mountain Valley High School’s graduating class of 2021 received their diplomas Thursday at Hosmer Field. Senior Colby Volkernick praised the class’s resiliency and ability adapt to the quarantines and other changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, “We depended on one another to make it through the odd year that we had.”
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$29.94 million RSU 10 budget approved by all seven district towns on Tuesday
By a vote of 469-234, the towns of Rumford, Mexico, Hartford, Buckfield, Roxbury, Hanover and Sumner approved the Regional School Unit 10 $29.94 million spending plan for 2021-22 during referendum voting on Tuesday. The district was also approved to spend funds on a study for a new pre-K through grade 8 elementary school, and adult education and for the Oxford Hills Technical School’s 2021-22 budget.
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Rumford voters approve $9.88 million municipal budget
Select Board incumbent Peter Chase was reelected for a third term, Abbey Cases Rice was written onto the RSU 10 Board of Directors and Dieter Kreckel and Brad Adley will serve on the Finance Committee.
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John Madigan, longtime town manager for several Maine towns, dies at 71
Madigan had been fighting cancer, according to his family, and died peacefully at his home on June 2.