WOODSTOCK — Jack Richardson’s collection of FBI fliers as a boy led to a 20-year career chasing criminals and checking the backgrounds of high-level government employees, he told listeners Thursday at the Whitman Memorial Library. “When I was young, and my parents owned an inn in New Hampshire, we would receive fliers from the FBI […]
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Rumford Historical Society to host talk on hospital
RUMFORD — The Rumford Historical Society will host a program on Rumford Community Hospital at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, at Rumford Falls Auditorium. It’s the first meeting since December, President Jane Peterson said Wednesday. “We were going to come back in March, but the winter was so bad this year that we had to […]
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Buckfield students produce maple syrup at school
BUCKFIELD — Buckets hang from 20 maple trees, steam rises from a sap house and sleds full of five-gallon pails are ready to be filled. It looks like a small farm maple syrup operation, similar to many in Western Maine, but it’s not. This operation is being done by students at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School […]
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Black Mountain to host ‘Donation Sun-Day
RUMFORD — Black Mountain of Maine will close for the season Sunday with skiers and snow-tubers paying whatever they can afford, marketing director Paige Carter said. “Last year, we closed on March 24, three weeks earlier than we’re closing this year,” she said. “As a result, we decided to try something different for our closing […]
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Rumford Finance Committee approves library, assessor and tax collector budgets
RUMFORD — The Finance Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to approve the $226,389 budget request for the Rumford Public Library. Library director Luke Sorenson said the amount is slightly more than the $225,000 approved in 2013. The only major increase is a 2.5 percent wage increase. “Many of the line items on the budget are actually […]
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Rumford high school auditorium officially closed
RUMFORD — Muskie Auditorium in Mountain Valley High School is officially closed because of extensive damage from a leaky roof, Superintendent Craig King said Wednesday. Carpets and the glue under them have been removed from the auditorium because of concerns about mold and mildew, and results of an air quality test should be available in […]
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DARE graduation set for April 15
RUMFORD — Fifth-graders from schools in the region will graduate at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, from the Rumford Police Department’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, police Sgt. Doug Maifeld said Wednesday. The graduation will take place in the auditorium of Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico, and will feature students from Rumford Elementary School, […]
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Correction: Rumford building lease pending approval
RUMFORD — A story published on Page B2 of the Region edition Monday about the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles moving into the former Amato’s building should have added that the lease signed with Gateway Plaza LLC is pending state approval, David Duguay of Gateway Plaza LLC said.
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Mexico selectmen approve letter of support for MDOT to apply for grant
MEXICO – The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday to approve a letter of support to the Maine Department of Transportation to replace the bridge between Mexico and Peru. Town Manager John Madigan said the MDOT is attempting to apply for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant and it requires a letter of support from […]