WOODSTOCK – Selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday to obtain a state permit to construct a dam at the outlet of Concord Pond and raise the water level.

The decision came after a meeting with Roland Pelletier, president of the Concord Pond Campers Association. He said the association has been trying to get Robert and Sheila Theriault to allow equipment to cross their property to replace an old dam at the site.

“We have tried to get the Theriaults to allow us to cross their land and place something in the outlet to bring the water level up,” said Pelletier, “and at a meeting of the association last summer they agreed we could cross their property if we did no damage and would agree to fix any damage that might be done.”

“We agreed to that, but this spring we learned that the Theriaults had changed their mind and do not want us to cross their property at all,” he added.

He said the Theriaults claim there was never a dam in the outlet.

Pelletier and another longtime property owner, Sterling Mills, said there was a dam of stone and wooden planks that was removed in the past 20 years or so.

Selectman Leon Poland said he also remembers the dam. “I’ve seen the dam from a boat and stood on the dam. I know there was a dam or barrier of some kind there in the past that held the water back,” Poland said.

Korean War

vets honored

OXFORD – They called it the war that Americans forgot to remember.

Even though the Korean War lasted three years, involved 1.5 million troops, 37,000 of whom died and 100,000 others who were wounded, it took four decades before the 1950-1953 war earned its own national monument, dedicated in 1995.

On Tuesday, in Oxford Veterans Memorial Park, local Korean veterans were honored by a rousing patriotic performance by the Maine Army National Guard band, under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer M. Stanley Buchanan.

The band and its ensembles perform at numerous military and civilian events throughout the northeastern United States and Canada.

Officers from Anderson-Staples American Legion Post 112 called forward all Korean War veterans from the crowd of more than 100 people attending the event, the second in the annual Concerts in the Park summer series.

The 30 or so men, and their widows, lined up to receive ribbons and certificates from the officers.

Then several post-1953 Korean War servicemen were similarly honored.

Uniformity reigns in 2004 calendar

RUMFORD – A local doctor is shown in his whites in one picture; playing golf in another. The race car driver is pictured with his car, then in another “uniform” playing baseball in jeans, and Red Sox hat and T-shirt.

These are two of the monthly pages of working men in the River Valley for the chamber’s first calendar. For this “River Valley 2004: Men in Uniforms,” uniform is used in the broadest of terms, says chamber executive secretary Tammi Lyons.

The new calendar is available at the chamber office and will be sold during the Fourth of July festivities at the chamber booth in downtown Rumford.

The $10 calendars went on sale last Thursday. “We’ve sold quite a few. Everyone was excited to see who’s in it,” said Lyons.

“We had a very good representation,” she said. Most of the River Valley’s 10 towns are represented.

U-turn causes Rumford crash

RUMFORD – A driver making an inadvertent U-turn on Route 2 in Rumford Center caused a crash that did substantial damage to another vehicle, police said.

No one was injured in the wreck at 9:28 a.m. Sunday.

According to Sgt. Stacy Carter, Louan Thibodeau, 46, of Rumford Center was driving a 1995 Nissan when the the car ahead of her, a 1990 Chrysler driven by Mariette Dolloff, 85, of Rumford, “moved to the right shoulder and pulled back into the travel lane, making a U-turn.”

In the ensuing collision, Dolloff’s Chrysler sustained $400 damage, while Thibodeau’s Nissan sustained $4,000 damage and had to be towed by Adley’s of Rumford.

Two men sought

in computer thefts

MEXICO – Arrest warrants have been issued for two men reportedly involved in a series of computer thefts and burglaries last year.

David Moore, 26, of Rumford, and Mark J. Radcliff, 38, address unknown, were indicted June 19 by the Oxford County grand jury. Moore is wanted on two felony burglaries, a felony theft, a misdemeanor theft and a charge of criminal mischief. Radcliff is wanted on the same charges.

Mexico Police Chief James Theriault said Monday that the cases against the two men involve burglaries at the Lawrence Goguen residence in Roxbury, the Donald MacPherson residence in Mexico and two thefts at what was then the new Mexico Wal-Mart.



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