Others will receive online instruction, home-schooling or private schooling.
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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RSU 10 schools begin Sept. 8 with COVID-19 safety measures
All students will have remote learning Wednesdays.
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Canton’s ‘junkyard offenders’ must clean up, town officials say
Residents in Canton who have what qualifies as a junkyard will receive letters telling them to clear it out, the selectmen said at their meeting on Thursday. The town is still looking to hire a Code Enforcement Officer to help enforce state and local ordinances and regulations.
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RSU 10 board approves hybrid return-to-school plan for middle school, high school students
The board of directors approved a delayed back-to-school date as well as remote learning on Wednesdays for all students. The board also accepted a $125,000 COPS grant, which will enable the district to have a full-time school resource officer.
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Andover honors Freeman Farrington at Town Meeting and votes on 58 articles
ANDOVER — Sixty voters seated in folding chairs separated by six-foot distances took part in a five-hour-plus town meeting Saturday, honoring a long-time resident and handling 58 warrant articles of town business. Before the meeting officially began, Scott Farrington presented his father, Freeman Farrington, the 2019 Andover Maine Spirit of America Foundation Tribute. The elder […]
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RSU 56 directors approve a plan for reopening schools this fall
Parents may choose in-school or online learning, and switch later if they want.
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RSU 10 and Rumford to vote school resource officer grant
School directors will vote Monday on a $125,000 federal grant.
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RSU 10 directors to consider delaying start of classes
The board will vote Monday at Mountain Valley High School.
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Face Time: Kevin Saisi — taking to the local airwaves
Kevin Saisi is the manager and one of the voices for WMPF 91.1 River Valley Community Radio in Rumford, offering music, a truly local weather report, road closures and more.
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Canton selectmen accept $5,000 for Adams family cemetery lots
The money is from the estate of Bernard Adams Jr. who died this year at age 102.