Regional School Unit 10 proposes a building for prekindergarten to grade 8 students from Rumford and Mexico.
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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Canton municipal budget is lower but school assessment is higher
Elections and the RSU 56 budget vote are June 8; town meeting is June 10.
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Face Time: Allie Burke and Melissa Harding working to benefit their communities
As leaders with the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition, Allie Burke and Melissa Harding are addressing hunger, poor health, substance abuse and more in their communities.
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Canton Town Meeting on June 10 could be indoors
The charge for plowing the road to the treatment plant was raised from $500 to $2,000 a year.
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RSU 10 officials brainstorm ideas for new school in Mexico
The district proposes a site at Meroby Elementary and Mountain Valley Middle schools, but the state must approve it.
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Budget for Dixfield-based school district approved
Canton, Carthage, Dixfield and Peru voters will go to the polls June 8 for a final say.
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Rumford area schools report ongoing cases of COVID-19
Since February, Rumford Elementary School has not gone 28 straight days without a positive COVID-19 case.
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Spring prom means outdoor events or no prom for some area schools
Mountain Valley High School, Dirigo High School, and Buckfield Junior-Senior High School all have different plans, but one thing in common: It’s not going to look like a regular prom season.
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Residents of western Maine towns approve Mexico technical school budget for 2021-22
Residents of the 16 towns that send their students to Region 9 School of Applied Technology in Mexico approved a $2.3 million budget for 2021-22 and an adult education budget of $401,167 on Wednesday evening.
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RSU 10 schools in Buckfield and Sumner question where sixth-graders will attend
The RSU 10 Board of Directors held a community forum Tuesday at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School to discuss plans to have schools in the Nezinscot Valley area, as well as the rest of their schools, open for full-time in-person learning this fall.