DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 board will face some tough decisions Monday night if they are to keep the 2014-15 budget at this year’s amount of $36.5 million. The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. March 31 in the library at Mountain Valley High School. At Monday’s board meeting, Superintendent Craig King and business manager […]
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RSU 10 board undecided on whether to apply for federal funds
PERU — The RSU 10 board delayed a decision Monday on whether to apply for federal funds to help improve student achievement at Mountain Valley Middle School, because they want to know what acceptance would mean for the district. The school was one of 13 in Maine cited as needing to boosting student test scores. […]
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Selectmen discuss former Recreation Committee
PERU — At Monday night’s regular selectmen’s meeting, Town Clerk Vera Parent announced that the town has received $3,910.63 from the old Recreation Committee’s account and $350.89 from the Friends of the Peru Elementary School. This closes out the Recreation Committee’s account and reimburses the town for funds given to FPES by the committee. The […]
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Beacon House to host seasonal wellness resource fair on April 5
RUMFORD — The Beacon House Social Club will team up with the Rumford Local Consumer Council, the Rumford Hospital and Swift River Family Medicine to host a seasonal wellness resource fair April 5. The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Beacon House on Congress Street. Dorie Oakes, who volunteers […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Mexico: Sewer District. 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Roxbury: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Budget review, 7 p.m., Town Office Rumford: River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition, noon, Public Library
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Dixfield teen wins ‘Future Star’ trophy in Tennessee
DIXFIELD — Getting the chance to compete nationally by singing country music in Tennessee last week meant the world to a Dixfield teenager and her mother. Vocalist Melanie Jordan said she thinks she won either fourth or fifth place in her 13- to 16-year-old age bracket for new modern country. She won’t know how she […]
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Bethel Fly Fishing Expo reels in eager anglers
BETHEL — More than 300 fishing enthusiasts attended Saturday’s Western Maine Fly Fishing Expo despite a full-blown afternoon snowstorm and sub-freezing temperatures. They didn’t seem to mind that Maine’s fly-fishing season will start much later than usual because water bodies are still buried under several feet of ice and snow. It was the third year […]
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Andover voters OK second effort to withdraw from SAD 44
ANDOVER — Residents at Tuesday’s referendum voted 217-123 to file a petition for withdrawal from SAD 44, Selectman Jim Adler said Friday evening. The vote also included filing a petition with the Maine commissioner of education and authorizing the Withdrawal Committee to borrow and spend $15,000 for that purpose. Adler said he would have liked […]
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Fire destroys Rumford house built in the 1880s
RUMFORD — A home more than 100 years old was destroyed by fire late Thursday night, investigators said early Friday afternoon. No one was at Chuck Arsenault’s home at 289 Isthmus Road when the fire erupted at 10:30 p.m., and there were no injuries, Rumford fire Chief Bob Chase said Friday. “The cause was undetermined,” […]
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Dixfield town manager resigns
DIXFIELD — Town Manager Linda Pagels-Wentworth has resigned for personal reasons, selectmen Chairman Mac Gill said. Pagels-Wentworth submitted a letter of resignation March 12 and it became effective March 14. She was hired in May 2013 after a six-month search. Gill said former Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky, who retired from the position in September of […]