Stories about Sumner

A. I. Eriksson: Promises are empty

Wind projects in towns without protective ordinances may not benefit the people. Towns where wind-generating facilities have been permitted to operate without legal guarantees and adequate enforcement protocols can only trust the multi-million-dollar industries to be fair and safe. The Hom... 6

Research Night displays everything from Picasso to artillery

BUCKFIELD — The student academic fair at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School wasn't the usual display of a history project. Scattered throughout four classrooms Thursday night were such diverse displays as a website on the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, a study of Pablo Picass...

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Church activities SUMNER — Pastor Howard MacMullen invites the neighbors of the Congregational Church of East Sumner to join in the upcoming activities: Senior lunch and bingo take place every third Wednesday of the month at noon. Knitting group also takes pla...

Sumner wind ordinance going to board March 13

SUMNER — Industrial Wind Ordinance Committee Chairman Kathy Emery told selectmen Tuesday night they can expect a draft March 13. She said the document is about 30 pages and is based on Rumford's ordinance. There will be a public hearing April 4 to receive comments from residen... 1

Beatrice L. McCarthy

WEST PARIS — Beatrice L. McCarthy, 87, of Sumner, died Thursday, Feb. 23, at Ledgeview Living Center. She was born in Brockton, Mass., March 17, 1924, the daughter of Albert and Louise Marten Vallee. She married Charles McCarthy on Aug. 15, 1948. They lived in Abington, Mass., for 41...

PHOTO: Fiddlin' around

Six fifth- and sixth-grade fiddle students from Hartford-Sumner Elementary School participated in the Maine Country Dance Fiddle Workshop and Festival on Feb. 11 in Hallowell. They worked with Maine fiddlers Kaity Newell, Ellen Gawler and Greg Boardman. More than 50 fiddlers participated. From l...

Mountain Valley school district learns of possible state aid boost

DIXFIELD — Superintendent Tom Ward and the RSU 10 board kicked off the 2012-13 budget development process Monday with news of a possible increase in state aid. Ward explained that valuations in the 12 district towns have remained essentially flat, unlike last year when the overall va...

Sumner making progress on wind ordinance

Sumner Wind Ordinance Committee member Larry O'Rourke, left, explains a point during Saturday's workshop on the proposed Industrial Wind Energy Facility Ordinance in the Town Office as Chairman Kathy Emery, center, and committee facilitator/moderator James McCarthy listen.

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 r...