FARMINGTON — A Rumford man was arrested on a charge of criminal speed early Tuesday morning after police clocked his motorcycle going 83 mph in a 35 mph zone. Thomas Gilbert, 44, was driving a 1983 Honda motorcycle on Lucy Knowles Road about 5:10 a.m. Tuesday, police Chief Jack Peck said. Farmington police officer Derek […]
River Valley
News and information about the River Valley area from the Sun Journal.
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Peru man facing multiple drug-trafficking felonies
PARIS — A Peru man is scheduled to appear in Oxford County Superior Court to face multiple aggravated drug trafficking counts. John R. Gallant, 20, of Stage Coach Road, is expected to appear in court July 9. He pleaded not guilty to multiple drug-related charges, including a Class B unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, one […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Rumford: Board of Assessors, 3 p.m., Municipal Building Rumford: Charter Commission, 6 p.m., Municipal Building Woodstock: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Woodstock: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Rumford: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Municipal Building Thursday Bethel: Recreation Board, 7 p.m., Town Office
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Peru board sets tax rate
PERU — The Board of Selectmen on Monday set the 2014-15 tax rate at $18.50 per $1,000 of property value. Last year’s rate was $17.50. A permit to replace stairs and an entrance deck on Dew Brook Road was granted. A request Gayle Maddox on East Shore Road for a shed was tabled until selectmen […]
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$300,000 federal grant to assist at-risk students at RSU 10
DIXFIELD — At least a couple of hundred students at Mountain Valley Middle School and Dirigo Elementary School will receive extra academic assistance and enrichment activities after school next year thanks to a $300,000 21st Century grant. The grant is good for three years of the same amount each, and two additional years at a […]
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Finny the Fabulous
The end of the mating season has arrived and still no goslings. My lovely old gray goose, Susie-Q, and 3-year-old Sammie continue to sit on their egg-filled nests, but time is running out. In another few days, the time will have passed for hatching. This has been a very difficult year for my geese to […]
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Roxbury Riders ATV Club raises $1,150 for Maine Children’s Cancer Program
ROXBURY — The Roxbury Riders ATV Club held its annual Mystery Night Ride for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program on June 21 and raised $1,150, club president Michael Worthley said Thursday via Facebook. The event featured a cookout, children’s rides, mystery children’s movie and campfire with s’mores at Worthley’s home on Roxbury Notch Road. He […]
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Rumford board to OK date for special town meeting
RUMFORD — Selectmen will convene their annual end of the fiscal year meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 30, in Rumford Falls Auditorium. They will start off with an executive session for a personnel matter, and then approve the end of the year town warrant to close out the books. Additional agenda items include: * […]
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Mexico woman charged with slamming woman’s hand in door
MEXICO — A local woman was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with slamming a woman’s hand in a door multiple times, police Chief Roy Hodsdon said. Jessica Harvey, 26, was charged with domestic assault. Hodsdon said officers responded to a residence on Holman Avenue for a report of a woman with a possible broken wrist […]