MEXICO — The town’s proposed 2024-25 municipal budget is up about 6% , according to Town Manager Raquel Welch-Day. She said proposed budget sits at $4.027 million for 2024-25, up from the current $3.72 million. Welch-Day said that if approved, “there may a slight tax increase, but it’ll be the first increase since I became […]
Bruce Farrin
Staff Writer
Bruce Farrin is editor for the Rumford Falls Times, serving the River Valley
with the community newspaper since moving to Rumford in 1986. In his early days, before computers, he was responsible for covering town government, police/fire, schools and sports, typed story copy onto special paper, then cut and waxed those articles onto pages by hand before they were prepped for press. He was the darkroom technician as well. Over three-plus decades, he has also been entrusted by locals to share defining moments in their lives, promoted the efforts of people working to improve their community, with his love of photography capturing children and adults at their best. When he's not writing, he's an avid walker, and has a lifetime love of America's pastime, baseball, and the study of statistics, becoming a leader nationally among 30 TPFS dynasty baseball leagues. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of Maine at Orono, with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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Rumford receives insurance money to repair flood damage at Hosmer Field Complex
The 450-acre complex received an estimated $2 million damage last winter.
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Ken MacFawn remembered for his love of Rumford and its history
He was chairman of the Rumford Center Village Improvement Society tor more than two decades.
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Garage lost but house saved in Peru fire
PERU — A garage at 833 Auburn Road was lost to fire on April 23, but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the house, noted Peru Fire Chief Dan Carrier on April 24. He said around 40 firefighters from departments in Peru, Rumford, Dixfield, Canton and Mexico responding to the evening blaze, […]
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‘D.A.R.E. is about life skills’
RUMFORD — The 37th year and 36th culmination of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) took place Wednesday in the Muskie Auditorium at Mountain Valley High School. The speaker was Rumford Police Patrolman/RSU 10 School Resource Officer Doug Maifield, who has been instructing the D.A.R.E. program that educates 5th grade students of the dangers of drugs, […]
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Workers’ Memorial Day commemorates three killed in Lewiston mass shooting
Western Maine Labor Council holds remembrance, awards ceremony in Rumford.
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Certificates of Appreciation presented to those assisting at recent Rumford head-on collision
RUMFORD — Police Chief Tony Milligan recognized people assisting at a recent head-on collision during Thursday’s Select Board meeting. Milligan read his account of the incident leading to this recognition: “On the late afternoon of March 9, 2024, two vehicles collided head-on at high speed on U.S. Route 2 in Rumford. “Nearby Sunday River Ski […]
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Rumford high school tackling Hosmer Field Complex cleanup Friday
Make a Difference Day will involve all students and staff for the first time.