RUMFORD – Best Western Hotels & Resorts announces the opening of the Best Western Plus Rumford Falls, located at 50 Prospect Ave. The newly constructed property is owned by Pennacook Falls Investments, Ltd. and boasts 63 total guestrooms, 12 of which are deluxe suites. “We are thrilled to open the doors of this new […]
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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Hope Association leader is retiring after 28 years
RUMFORD — Catherine Johnson has announced that she is retiring from Hope Association after serving for 28 years as the executive director. Johnson, 57, said, “It’s so hard to summarize 28 years and how much I am going to miss the place I spend most of my time. I’ve spent 28 years working for […]
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DARE culmination celebration for 6th graders
MEXICO — For the first time since 2019, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education culmination celebration was held in RSU 10. The 34th DARE event, sponsored by the Rumford Police Department, was held for the 56 sixth graders completing the 16 week-program. It took place on May 13 in the lecture room at the […]
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Proposed municipal budget for Rumford up 3.5%
Annual meeting held in two sessions: June 6 and 14.
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Plaque honors former Dixfield board chairwoman Norine Clarke, who died May 4
A plaque will be hung in the town gazebo on Main Street.
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Dixfield’s proposed 2022-23 town budget shows slight decrease
Town manager’s biggest concern is reconditioning Hall Hill pumping station.
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Dixfield Select Board to honor late chairperson Norine Clarke
Norine Clarke died on May 4, 2021, at the age of 81.
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Two arrested in Rumford after eluding police through 3 towns
A Mexico woman and a Rumford man were sought during a felony drug investigation.
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Concerts coming to Rumford park this summer
It will be the first time the Veteran’s Park gazebo has been used for that purpose.
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Volunteers clean up three River Valley towns for Earth Day
A grassroots group of citizens held the fourth River Valley Community Clean Up on Saturday throughout Rumford, Mexico and Dixfield.