PERU — Rain early in the day and temperatures reaching into the 50s didn’t keep the pupils at Dirigo Elementary School from participating in the annual Winter Carnival Day on Friday. Assistant Principal Crystal Duguay said the school always has a backup plan, and organizer and music teacher Michelle Chick put it into action. Children […]
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Dirigo student organizes drive for pet supplies
PERU — Tiasha Burgess loves animals. The 10-year-old Dirigo Elementary School fourth-grader owns and helps care for Cody, a yellow lab, kittens Dusty and Precious, two hens named Buddy and Cottontail, and a fluffy, gray and black rabbit named Smokey. She plans to get a guinea pig soon. Tiasha particularly likes her pets because she […]
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Maple sap season starts early in Western Maine
PERU — Punxatawney Phil didn’t see his shadow on Groundhog Day, but here in Western Maine, spring is beckoning. Maple tree sap is starting to run — and several syrup farmers are tapping into it earlier than usual. “I’m surprised it’s running so well,” Cliff Thurston of Peru said Saturday morning. He and his brother, […]
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Mexico police searching for suspects in variety of crimes
MEXICO — Police continued to search Friday evening for a man they say grabbed a laptop computer inside Dyer’s Electronics earlier in the day. The $400 laptop was recovered outside the Main Street store, Mexico police Lt. Roy Hodsdon said. “Dyer’s had an unknown male come in and walk out the door with the laptop, […]
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$2,000 brook trout eludes ice anglers at 33rd Roxbury Pond derby
ROXBURY — Another ice-fishing derby came and went at Roxbury Pond on Saturday, but the money fish — worth $2,000 — continued its tradition of eluding anglers. Hosted by the Mexico Lions Club, the Larry Mercier Memorial 33rd annual derby drew 445 registered anglers. But “there was a lot more than that here,” co-organizer Roland […]
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Board OKs $35,000 loan to Greater Rumford Community Center
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen voted 4-0 Thursday night to approve a five-year $35,000 loan to the recreation center. Greater Rumford Community Center Director Bob Anderson asked the board to consider approving the loan. Referring to a letter to the board from Gary Dolloff, chairman of the GRCC Board of Directors, Anderson said the […]
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Warm weather, rain cancels Saturday’s ice skating party at Rumford rink
RUMFORD — Warm weather prompted the Parks and Recreation Department on Thursday to cancel its annual Family Fun Day on Saturday at the DARE ice skating rink beside Route 2. Temperatures in the 40s on Thursday left a growing puddle of standing water on one rink. Additionally, frost leaving the ground left a muddy mess […]
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Mexico man pleads not guilty to Valentine’s Day gun charge
MEXICO — A local man is free on bail and awaiting trial in May after pleading not guilty Wednesday to carrying a concealed handgun on Valentine’s Day. Brandon E. Holmes, 25, of 81 Main St. was conditionally released at his arraignment on $200 unsecured bail, a Rumford District Court clerk said Thursday afternoon. He is […]
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Rumford board to mull proposed mountain bike trail system
RUMFORD — A Rome company has submitted a proposal to selectmen to design and plan a mountain bike trail system in town. The board will discuss Red Oak Enterprises’ proposal when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Rumford Falls Auditorium. According to a letter dated Monday, Red Oak owner Brian Alexander […]
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$2,000 grand-prize brook trout added to Roxbury Pond for Saturday’s derby
ROXBURY — Five-year-old Aiden Gordon’s eyes widened Wednesday afternoon when Roland Patneaude lifted the cover of a large cooler on the ice at Roxbury Pond. Inside was a 16-inch brook trout that Patneaude and Gordon’s grandfather, Michael Worthley, picked up earlier at the Palermo Rearing Station hatchery in Palermo. “Oh, bigger than I thought,” Gordon […]