DIXFIELD — The Police Department is giving trigger locks to residents to improve gun safety, police Chief Richard Pickett said Thursday evening. Pickett said the locks came from Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence. “They’re a Maine-based organization that spoke at the latest Maine Chiefs of Police Association meeting and said that they would give trigger […]
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Rumford cab driver killed in Mexico rollover
MEXICO — A Rumford cab driver was killed early Wednesday morning after the car he was driving flipped over an embankment and caught fire, Mexico police Chief Roy Hodsdon said. Gary McGuire, 62, an employee of Mountain Valley Taxi Service in Mexico, was traveling west on Route 2 at approximately 1 a.m. when the 2009 […]
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Friends, family of Rumford woman with rare disease to host benefit on May 17
RUMFORD — Residents have organized a spaghetti supper and dance from 5 p.m. to midnight Saturday, May 17, at the Rumford Eagles hall to benefit a Rumford woman suffering from a rare debilitating disease. Resident Kim Chiasson said her close friend, Cheryl Wade, was diagnosed with Stiff Person’s Syndrome, a neurological disorder where the person’s […]
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Dixfield police Chief to run for Maine House of Representatives
DIXFIELD — Police Chief Richard “Dick” Pickett announced he is running for the Maine House of Representatives in District 93. Pickett, a Republican, will run as a clean election candidate against Democrat Mac Gill, a selectman from Dixfield. Rep. Sheryl Briggs, D-Mexico, will leave office this year after reaching her term limit. District 93 serves […]
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Mountain Valley High School grad writes, publishes first novel in Rumford
RUMFORD — A 2009 graduate of Mountain Valley High School has written and published her first book and is selling paperback and electronic versions worldwide via the Internet. On Saturday at Rumford’s Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival, Phoebe Pike of Rumford was signing copies of “The Cold World,” while helping the Western Foothills Kids Association with […]
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Rumford high school juggles events because of leaky roof
DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 board approved two class trips, set a night for recognition of retiring employees, and heard an update on the Mountain Valley High School roof and its affect on graduation activities when they met Monday night. Superintendent Craig King said the nearly one dozen long-time teachers who will complete their careers […]
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Newry selectman at odds with administrator’s duties
NEWRY — Selectmen discussed the town administrator’s job description at length Tuesday night in the Bear River Grange Hall. Selectman Brooks Morton previously asked for the review, but when asked by Chairman Wendy Hanscom what he thought about it, Morton said he didn’t think Tuesday’s meeting was the forum to discuss his reasons. He said […]
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Dixfield Public Works to install ‘No Parking’ signs on Coburn Avenue
DIXFIELD — Public Works director Calvin Beaumier told the Board of Selectmen Monday evening that he was planning to install “No Parking” signs on the north side of Coburn Avenue by Thursday. During the April 28 selectmen’s meeting, the board unanimously voted to restrict parking on the north side of Coburn Avenue after resident Sonya […]
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Mexico town manager: Phone vote during May 6 special meeting was legal
MEXICO — Town Manager John Madigan told selectmen Tuesday night that the vote at the special selectmen meeting May 6 to put an article on the June 10 annual town meeting warrant to finish paving work was legal. Last month, selectmen asked Town Manager John Madigan to determine the cost of finishing paving Back Kingdom […]
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RSU 10 board approves $36.2 million budget
RUMFORD — The RSU 10 board overwhelmingly approved a proposed $36.2 million budget for 2014-15 Monday night, which is slightly more than this fiscal year. “We have turned over every stone and bent over backward,” Superintendent Craig King said. Officials had $1.1 million less in general purpose aid to education to work with and $1.6 […]