Tuesday Rumford: Board of Assessors, 4 p.m., Municipal Building Rumford: Selectmen to hear budget requests, 6 p.m., Municipal Building Woodstock: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Woodstock: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Hanover: Planning Board, 6 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Region 9 School of Applied Technology Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m., River Road school […]
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News and information about the River Valley area from the Sun Journal.
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Touchette honored for service to fire department
ROXBURY — Gordon Touchette was honored just before the annual town meeting Monday night for his many years of devotion to the Fire Department. Touchette served as fire chief for 16 years, retiring in 2005. Born in Roxbury, he moved to Ridgefield Park, N.J., where he met his wife, Mary, and served in that Fire […]
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Rumford crime bulletin
Patrol officers responded to 99 complaints between midnight Feb. 27 to midnight March 5. Charges Feb. 28 at 1:38 p.m. — Joshua Walker, 20, of Rumford was arrested by Cpl. Lawrence Winson on Lincoln Avenue on a warrant charging failure to appear for operating after suspension. Walker posted $250 cash bail and was released. Feb. […]
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Diversity Days broadens students’ horizons
DIXFIELD — Dirigo High School’s 300-plus students hooted, hollered and clapped as several staff members climbed down from the bleachers to take their place alongside a bunch of African drums and bells to follow the musical lead of special guest, Michael Wingfield. Principal Michael Poulin and Assistant Principal Chris Moreau were among them. “It’s been […]
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Roxbury voters approve $1 million road bond
ROXBURY — Voters at the annual town meeting Monday night agreed to take out a $1 million bond to pay for road work in the next three years. They agreed to appropriate $200,000 to get the project started this year by grinding, paving and ditching several of the main streets in town, plus the Horseshoe […]
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Life in Rumford revealed by debut Friday Night Live show
RUMFORD — Irreverent skits about life in Rumford and beyond proved to be a smash hit for performer Scot Grassette and his new comedy troupe. Friday Night Live, a 90-minute, sold-out takeoff on NBC’s long-running series “Saturday Night Live,” debuted Friday night at Grassette’s 49 Franklin function hall. It will be performed again at 8 […]
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World Day of Prayer calls for justice
RUMFORD — The voices of dozens of local women were joined by millions of others around the world Friday afternoon when the local World Day of Prayer service took place the United Methodist Church. Judy Sanborn of Rumford, a parishioner at St. Rose Catholic Church in Jay, called the service “a unification of women everywhere.” […]
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Olympian comes to Rumford elementary
RUMFORD — Julia Clukey, an Olympian luger from Augusta, kicked off Read Across America Week at Rumford Elementary School on Wednesday by bringing her turquoise blue luge and reading to the more than 250 children. Clukey, 26, was a competitor in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. She is going to Lake Placid, N.Y., to continue training […]
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Roxbury town meeting slated for Monday
ROXBURY — Residents will decide whether to start a long-term highway repair project, elect two officers, and act on nearly 80 articles at the annual town meeting Monday. It begins at 6 p.m. at the Town Office. Chairman John Sutton of the Board of Selectmen said Selectman Michael Worthley, a retired paper-mill worker and current […]