SUMNER — Buckfield, Canton, Hartford and Sumner will hold jointly sponsored swimming lessons for residents next month. Sumner Recreation Committee member June Davis announced that swim lessons will be held at the Hartford Public Beach from noon to 2 p.m. July 1-5 and July 8-12. Three Red Cross-trained teachers/lifeguards will be on duty. Those interested […]
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Rumford ski area may not open this winter
RUMFORD — Unless it can raise $51,000 this summer and fall, Black Mountain of Maine ski area likely will remain closed this coming winter, say Black Mountain and Maine Winter Sports Center officials. Town meeting voters on June 11 defeated Black Mountain’s request for funding. “As it stands now, we have been instructed by the […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Mexico: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Mexico: Special selectmen, 5:30 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Roxbury: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Finance Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Building Thursday Mexico: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Rumford: Comprehensive Plan Committee, 6 p.m., Municipal Building Friday […]
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Peru board checking on recreation funds
PERU — Selectmen told residents Monday night they will try to get an accounting of money the community raised for bathrooms at the ball field. Chairman Jim Pulsifer said the money the town appropriates for the Recreation Committee is under the selectmen’s control, but the Recreation Committee has its own checkbook which the board has […]
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Gill re-elected Dixfield board chairman
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 by ballot to re-elect Mac Gill as chairman at Monday night’s meeting. Bob Withrow made a motion for Gill to be chairman, while Hart Daley made a motion for Scott Belskis to be chairman. After Gill was elected, Daley made a motion for Belskis to be vice […]
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Main Street market organizer hoping to expand
MEXICO — If you ask the Rev. Carl Cutting about the market he organizes Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. underneath the canopy across from the Chicken Coop, he’ll quickly tell you that it’s not a farmers’ market. “It’s ‘The Market,’” Cutting said, “not the farmers’ market. That means we put anything here, not […]
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Farmington’s annual antique tractor festival attracts large crowd
FARMINGTON — Despite sweltering humidity and intermittent rain showers Saturday, the 18th annual Maine Antique Tractor Festival attracted a large crowd. Many came to marvel at tractors of all makes, models, sizes and colors from the 1920s to the 1960s, including this year’s featured display of a special line of about 20 Ford tractors, including a […]
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Heroin busts, overdoses on the rise
Another was 32 and found dead, at home, in the bathroom last month. A third was 62, also found dead in bed by family. Lewiston and Auburn police are investigating the three possible fatal heroin overdoses between March and May, waiting for toxicology results and possible charges. Police say the deaths are too spread out […]
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Budget angst brews unrest at Rumford board meeting
RUMFORD — Budget angst and unrest over taxes is giving selectmen heartburn. Emotions roiled at a meeting this past week when newly re-elected Selectman Brad Adley said it had been “an interesting week,” of which selectmen spent more than eight hours cutting the budget. “It really sucked and I really mean that,” Adley said. “It […]
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Rumford woman injured in Roxbury ATV accident
ROXBURY — A Rumford woman suffered head and body injuries when she was thrown from her all-terrain vehicle on Friday while descending the Mine Notch Trail, officials said. Tammy Munzner, 42, was being treated at Rumford Hospital, Maine Warden Kris MacCabe said early Friday evening. “She had pretty substantial facial injuries on the left side […]