CANTON — Former Road Foreman Donald Cummings was fired this week and his wife resigned as vice chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen after admitting Thursday night that she lied to the board about a matter. The board met Sunday and held an emergency executive session Monday after which they fired Donald Cummings for insubordination, […]
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Dixfield budget vote planned; annual town meeting a month early
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen will attempt to schedule the town budget referendum June 10, the same day as the state primary election, Chairman Mac Gill said. At the March 17 board meeting, it was decided to have the budget vote at the polls instead of by a show of hands at the town […]
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Retail beverage training seminar planned for area businesses
MEXICO – The River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition will host a free seminar from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, April 7, at the Police Department to teach businesses how to prevent the sale of alcohol to underage and high-risk drinkers. Project coordinator Sandy Witas said the program, titled Seller Server Training for Off-premise Licensees, […]
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Public meetings scheduled for RSU 10 budget
DIXFIELD — RSU 10 Superintendent Craig King has scheduled two public hearings on the school budget next week. The first is Tuesday, April 1, at the Hartford-Sumner Elementary School in Sumner; the second is Wednesday, April 2, at the Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico. Both are from 6:30 to 8 p.m. “This […]
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Maine Adaptive’s 29th annual fundraiser attracts more than 400
NEWRY — More than 400 Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation students, volunteers, board members and other fundraisers will gather Saturday, March 29, at Sunday River Ski Resort for a ski-a-thon. They’re coming to turn in their collected donations and celebrate a banner year of programming success for Maine’s nationally renowned adaptive sports and recreation organization, […]
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Gilead to vote on electing or appointing road commissioner
GILEAD — Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting will consider whether to make the road commissioner an appointed, rather than elected position, and whether to pay off the remaining $41,000 on the loan for the Town Office building. Selectmen are recommending the change in the way the road commissioner is chosen. The same question was […]
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Rumford official charged with distributing child porn
RUMFORD — A member of the town’s Finance Committee was charged Thursday with distributing child pornography. Jeremy Vashaw, 41, of Somerset Street was arrested at his home on a single charge of dissemination of sexually explicit material of persons under the age of 12. Vashaw was taken to the Oxford County Jail in Paris, where […]
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New Rumford Girl Scout troop fights high winds, cold to sell cookies
RUMFORD — New Rumford Girl Scout Troop 676 just can’t catch a break from the weather in its efforts to sell Girl Scout cookies this winter. A snowstorm and subfreezing temperatures have canceled two attempts since the troop formed in January, troop co-leader Jenn Dyke said Wednesday at the American Legion Hall. While three members […]
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Mexico residents sign up for municipal-sharing subcommittees
MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen has four volunteers for subcommittees studying shared services with Rumford, Town Manager John Madigan said at Tuesday evening’s board meeting. The boards have been meeting since June to talk about sharing services. In September, Municipal Resources, a New Hampshire-based company, provided both towns with a proposal for a comprehensive […]