RUMFORD — The Rumford Eagles Auxiliary will be hosting its ninth annual All Male Beauty Pageant at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, with local men raising money for charities by dressing in women’s casual and evening wear and displaying their talents, said Marcia Surette, chairman of the pageant. Surette, who is a former member of […]
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Black Mountain finds new uses for old buildings
RUMFORD — Black Mountain Ski Resort is using two of its old buildings for starting races and housing snow-making equipment. Marketing director Paige Carter said the race start building is the old ski patrol building at the top of the mountain. “This is the first time we’ve had occasion to take one of our old […]
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Mexico conference on active-shooter situations keys on Sandy Hook school tragedy
MEXICO — “The first half-hour of this incident was Armageddon — it was crazy,” Maureen Will told about 100 dispatchers, first responders, educators and school administrators on Saturday about the Sandy Hook tragedy. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy […]
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Rumford board OKs Lumberjack Festival requests
RUMFORD — Selectmen paved the way Thursday night for Envision Rumford to hold its second annual Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival on May 10. By 5-0 tallies, they approved taking $500 from the economic development fund and giving it to the local economic development group to fund radio broadcasting of the festival by WOXO; approved the […]
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Rumford board updated on tax-acquired properties
RUMFORD — Selectmen were briefed Thursday night on 24 tax-acquired properties and the legal ramifications of ownership. Town Manager John Madigan said the latest properties on the list are the Barnboard Tavern at 12 Oxford Ave., 447 Swain Road, 15 and 16 Front St., 226 Knox St., 103 South Rumford Road, 566 and 614 Prospect […]
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Franklin Savings Bank consolidating Mexico branch into Rumford branch, keeping all 16 employees
RUMFORD — Early Friday afternoon, Diane Perry reviewed plans in her office for an upcoming expansion of Franklin Savings Bank’s Rumford branch. Perry is a vice president for the bank and branch manager in Rumford and Mexico. The bank will consolidate its Mexico branch and employees into the Rumford branch and close the Mexico location, […]
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Rumford police end half-hour standoff, take suicidal woman into custody
RUMFORD — A local woman threatening to kill herself with a knife just after noon Thursday in a Maine Avenue apartment caused a short standoff with police before she was taken into custody, police said. The woman had a small, self-inflicted abrasion on her wrist, Rumford police Chief Stacy Carter said. She was taken by […]
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Independent Special Olympics team holding fundraising supper
CARTHAGE — For the second year in a row, an independent Special Olympics team for adults will host a public supper at the Town Hall to raise money to participate in the Maine summer and winter games. The supper will take place from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5. Tickets are $7 for adults […]
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Jenkins brings messages of respect, reflection, and responsibility to Mountain Valley students
MEXICO — John Jenkins brought his upbeat humor and wisdom to several hundred Mountain Valley High School students and eighth-graders from Mountain Valley Middle School on Thursday afternoon. Wearing a tie printed with yellow school buses, Jenkins told students that good enough is never good enough and everyone should focus on a goal. “Do everything […]
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Rumford board to advocate against Black Mountain/Rumford turnpike sign removal
RUMFORD — Selectmen agreed Thursday night to draft letters to Gov. Paul LePage advocating that he prevent the Maine Turnpike Authority from removing the sign touting Black Mountain Ski Area in Rumford. The decision came after Jennifer Kreckel of Envision Rumford, a local economic development group, lobbied the board during the citizen requests’ session to […]