Arrests * Cody Magoon, 23, Rumford, domestic assault, 11:03 p.m. Feb. 7. He was released on $800 unsecured bail. He will be arraigned on March 3 in 11th District Court. Reports * A business reported two shoplifters at 3:59 p.m. on Feb. 7. They had already left the store by the time police were called. […]
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RSU 10 board stops accreditation process
DIXFIELD — Regional School Unit 10 board members voted overwhelmingly to discontinue funding for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, effectively ending the reaccreditation process for the district’s three high schools at the end of June. All board members, except Barbara Chow of Dixfield and Peter Zanoni of Mexico, voted not to continue […]
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Missing Guilford woman found safe in Rumford
BANGOR — A Guilford group home resident who had been missing since late last month has been found safe in Rumford, an investigator with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office said late Monday afternoon. Mary Jane Giddings, 22, who is disabled and a ward of the state, was reported missing after she left her group home […]
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Dixfield selectmen table discussion on renaming Pauls Bluff
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen on Monday tabled discussion on whether to support a proposal to name a hill for a former town official. Town Manager Carlo Puiia said resident Steve Swan submitted a proposal to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The 1,329-foot summit, which has no name, is north of Merrill Road, […]
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Missing Guilford woman found safe in Rumford
BANGOR — A Guilford group home resident who had been missing since late last month has been found safe in Rumford, an investigator with the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office said late Monday afternoon. Mary Jane Giddings, 22, who is disabled and a ward of the state, was reported missing after she left her group home […]
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Mexico selectmen to review animal control ordinance
MEXICO — A revised draft of the animal control ordinance will be discussed at Tuesday evening’s Board of Selectmen meeting. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Town Office. The Planning Board has been revising the ordinance since July 2014, after Animal Control Officer Anne Simmons-Edmunds suggested changes. Much of the […]
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Dixfield board to address request to change summit name at Jan. 9 meeting
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will decide at Monday evening’s meeting whether to support a proposal to apply a new name to a Dixfield summit, Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Friday. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Ludden Memorial Library. Puiia said that resident Steve Swan submitted a proposal to the […]
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Public works crews wish snowstorms weren’t the ‘gift that keeps on giving’
RUMFORD — Town highway crews say they barely get cleaned up from one storm before the next one rolls in, challenging work schedules, equipment and supplies. “The timing of the storms is horrible,” mechanic Jeff Wade of the Mexico Highway Department said. “We barely have a chance to clean up one storm before another one […]
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Mexico police log
The Police Department responded to 39 incidents in the past week, including the following: * A Main Street resident said that while she was in the bathroom at 5:55 p.m. on Feb. 1, someone entered her apartment. Police Chief Roy Hodsdon said police checked the premises and found no intruder. * At 5:26 p.m. on […]
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RSU 10 reschedules forums on school buildings
DIXFIELD — Regional School Unit 10 Superintendent Craig King has rescheduled public forums on the future uses of school buildings for March. They are: * Mountain Valley High School, Rumford, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10; * Dirigo High School, Dixfield, 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 16; and * Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March […]