Mexico Bicentennial Committee member Sheryl Briggs, standing at left, and Town Manager Jack Gaudet, kneeling at left, recently presented Walmart of Mexico with a Mexicopoly game in appreciation of the retailer’s financial support for Mexico’s bicentennial celebration events throughout 2018. (Submitted photo) MEXICO — The town has 13 events planned throughout 2018 to celebrate its bicentennial. […]
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Merger, Gallant among area’s top 10 stories of 2017
Try describing 2017 in a concise way. We dare you. In Maine, as in the rest of the country, it was a year that started with a loud and often ugly political debate that never seemed to end. There were scandals of all kinds and tragedies almost too immense to bear. Locally, the idea to […]
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Rumford approves 2018-19 budget schedule
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen has approved the following 2018-19 budget schedule. All meetings will be held at 6 p.m. at the Municipal Building’s Rumford Falls Auditorium, unless otherwise noted: • Monday, Jan. 22 — Budget sheets will be distributed to department heads. • Friday, Jan. 26 — All department heads meet with the town […]
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Solid waste budget unchanged for ninth straight year
Rumford’s revenue from recycling increased more than $32,000 — to $107,983 — in 2017, despite a continued drop in the percentage of people in the region who recycle. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) Eric Schmersal, manager at the Northern Oxford Regional Solid Waste transfer station in Mexico. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) RUMFORD — The Northern Oxford Regional […]
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Rumford church bringing back food pantry
Praise Assembly of God Church Pastor Justin Thacker is in the church’s library with his daughter Hannah, who loves children’s books. The church is bringing back its food pantry and is also offering a clothing closet and use of a library to the public. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) RUMFORD — After a 10-month hiatus, the Praise […]
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Freezing rain makes travel hazardous
Freezing rain created “treacherous” road conditions in Western Maine on Saturday and left 7,000 households across the state without power. As of 8:28 p.m., Oxford, York and Cumberland counties each were reporting more than 2,000 customers without electricity, according to Central Maine Power. An automated message blamed the outages on “current weather conditions.” Earlier in […]
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Rumford OKs loader purchase
RUMFORD — After a lengthy discussion, selectmen voted 3-1 Thursday to approve the purchase of a new loader for Public Works. The equipment is a 2018 Volvo L90H wheel loader from Chadwick-Baross, which submitted the lowest of three bids. The cost was $174,000, less than the trade-in value of the town’s 2007 Case loader, according […]
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Numerous flat tire complaints in Mexico
MEXICO — Town Manager Jack Gaudet said he had heard numerous flat tire complaints in town over recent weeks. He told selectmen on Dec. 19 that sharp metal strands have been entering people’s tires and causing flats, and local tire businesses have jars of collected strands. “I think I have one in one of my tires,” Gaudet […]
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Fire destroys unoccupied building in Rumford
RUMFORD — For the second time in six days, firefighters from several towns were needed to battle a structure fire in Rumford. Early Tuesday, up to 40 firefighters from Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield and Peru battled a fire in an unoccupied building at the corner of Oxford Avenue and Cumberland Street. Fire Chief Bob Chase said […]
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Peru voters OK money for building inspection
PERU — Voters approved all seven articles at a special town meeting Monday night, including one to take $5,000 from surplus to pay for an engineer to inspect the Friends of Peru Elementary School building. The building, which was being used as a community center, was inspected in May by the State Fire Marshal’s Office, […]