The 66 students making up Mountain Valley High School’s graduating class of 2021 received their diplomas Thursday at Hosmer Field. Senior Colby Volkernick praised the class’s resiliency and ability adapt to the quarantines and other changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, “We depended on one another to make it through the odd year that we had.”
Bruce Farrin
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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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Peru citizens reject 8 of 40 articles for 2021-22 municipal budget
Peru residents voted down eight of the town municipal budget’s 40 articles on Tuesday’s ballot. This included declining a request of $150,000 for a town-wide revaluation that was scheduled to take place this year.
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Rumford voters approve $9.88 million municipal budget
Select Board incumbent Peter Chase was reelected for a third term, Abbey Cases Rice was written onto the RSU 10 Board of Directors and Dieter Kreckel and Brad Adley will serve on the Finance Committee.
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Mexico voters approve $3.29 million municipal budget for 2021-22 fiscal year
Residents in Mexico approved all articles of the town’s $3.29 million budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year on Tuesday. Town Manager Raquel Welch said the budget is down more than $100,000 from last year, though the mill rate should remain the same. As part of the budget package, voters approved the purchase of land for a new public safety building.
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Dixfield voters approve $2.53 million municipal budget
Peter Holman wins reelection to Select Board.
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Rumford voters authorize town to purchase land for new fire station
Rumford officials are looking to replace the 1924 Central Fire Station.
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Mexico dedicates new flag at Veterans Memorial Green
The 48-by 25-foot American flag honors past, present and future veterans.
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More than 100 pay tribute at Memorial Day service, parade in Rumford
Members of Napoleon Ouellette American Legion Post 24 held a service at their hall.
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Peru school fourth-graders awarded money for higher education
Seven Dirigo Elementary School students win $100 scholarships.
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Rumford man presented Boston Post Cane
Wilfred Belanger, veteran, former mill worker and world traveler, will be 99 July.