Regional School Unit 56 Board Director Carl Lueders won his bid for reelection for a three-year term by 80 votes to Tom Peters’ 37 votes.
Marianne Hutchinson
Marianne Hutchinson is a general assignment reporter for the Rumford Falls Times. She has worked for the Times for three years covering the RSU 10 and RSU 56 school boards encompassing the towns of Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield and other nearby towns in the River Valley area. She also covers the selectmen’s and town meetings and other activities of the towns of Canton and Andover. Marianne has lived in Lewiston for 33 years with her husband, Dennis. She graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in Journalism and advertising. Before becoming a reporter for the Times she held various positions as an educational technician for English as a Second Language students of Lewiston schools and as a proofreader and production editor for Pine Tree Composition, a former typesetting company in Lewiston. In her spare time, she loves to read books, especially memoirs, and articles from newspapers and magazines. She also likes to attend exercise classes at the YMCA in Auburn or go for bike rides with her husband and friends. During the winter months she enjoys snowshoeing and cross-country skiing with family and friends.
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Rumford-based school district budget approved for 2024-25
RSU 10 voters approved the budget, 1,187-732.
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Dixfield-based school district budget passes
The vote from the four RSU 56 towns was 503-387.
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Bikes for books: 28 Peru students get new rides for reading challenge
Twenty-eight Dirigo Elementary School students read books over four weeks to win new bikes during their school assembly on Monday. The bikes were donated by the Masons of King Hiram Lodge 57 of Mexico.
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Andover residents to vote on money for renovating tennis court
The town is applying for a federal grant of $170,000 to $200,000 for a recreation park.
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Rumford-based school district tech director, teachers present computer science program
The Harold Alfond Foundation is investing $8.2 million in additional money into the original $1 million grant obtained by the Maine Math and Science Alliance in 2021, allowing the district to extend the computer science program an additional five years.
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Face Time: Hartford’s Harper Marston, 11, and her dog biscuit business
One of the young entrepreneur’s reasons for choosing a biscuit-making business for herself was her ability to work independently, without a lot of help from her parents, she said.
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Rumford-based school district residents approve $37 million budget for 2024-25
A final vote is set for June 11 at polling station in each town.
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Dixfield-based school district budget approved
A majority of 36 voters approve spending $14.28 million for 2024-25.
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Canton board appoints town clerk, moves town meeting to June 27
Former Deputy Town Clerk Kathy Walker will begin her duties June 3.