DIXFIELD — The Maine Department of Transportation facility on Main Street was evacuated Friday morning after a possible carbon monoxide leak was reported. Dixfield fire Chief Scott Dennett said Friday evening that Med-Care and the Dixfield Fire Department responded to a report of people feeling ill at the MDOT garage. “After we realized there were […]
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Social Learning Center holds annual ‘carnival day’
LEWISTON — The Tri-County Mental Health Services/Social Learning Center held their annual “carnival day” Friday morning, offering more activities than in previous years. The Social Learning Center, according to their website, is an office of Tri-County Mental Health Services that helps to “prepare and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for the greatest degree of […]
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Wisconsin man convicted of drunken-driving homicide that killed Rumford woman in 2011
DARLINGTON, Wis. — A Shullsburg, Wis., man was convicted of three felonies in Lafayette County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Darlington for a 2011 crash that killed a 21-year-old Rumford woman. In a report published Thursday in the Wisconsin State Journal, a jury found Kyle Monahan, 24, guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a […]
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Mexico selectmen vote to postpone vote on COPS grant to Nov. 26
MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen unanimously voted Tuesday to wait until the end of November to decide whether to accept a $156,071 grant that would help fund the salary of a police officer for three years. On Sept. 28, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services awarded grants totaling $656,071 […]
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Two-vehicle accident leaves three injured
RUMFORD — A two-vehicle accident on Route 2 in Rumford on Tuesday morning left three passengers with minor injuries, according to Rumford police Chief Stacy Carter. Carter said that officers with the Rumford Police Department responded to the report of a car accident on Route 2, just past Sam’s Italian Shop, around noon. According to […]
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iPads for all at Mountain Valley High School
RUMFORD — When classes began this year at Mountain Valley High School, teaching and homework had changed. After years of the students using laptop computers, they had to learn how to use iPads. “It’s almost like typing on a phone,” freshman Emily Little said. “But I go to the library to use a larger keyboard.” […]
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Newry eyes $300,000 road project
NEWRY — Selectmen are pondering a proposal from Main-Land Development Consultants for an estimated $300,000 project to reconstruct 1,200 feet of the Sunday River Road. Main-Land owner and president Bob Berry and project manager Rick Dunton met with the board last week to discuss options for the stretch of road near the Nordic Knoll subdivision […]
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WMEDC keeps county’s development on center stage
PARIS — In a small office on the second floor of the Community Concepts building in Market Square, a two-person operation is trying to change the direction of economic development in Oxford County. In the past year and a half, the Western Maine Economic Development Council, and its director, Glen Holmes, have gone into overdrive […]
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Requested county budget $652k more than 2013
PARIS — Oxford County department heads are requesting almost $652,000 more for 2014, an 11 percent increase from this year. The requests, released Friday, are the first stage in the budget process that stretches for the next three months. The budgets submitted by department heads are reviewed by the three commissioners, who pass on recommendations to […]
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Exercise program for senior citizens to begin Oct. 14
MEXICO — Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice will host an exercise program titled Moving Freely starting Monday, Oct. 14, at the Mexico Recreation Center. The program started “sometime in the mid- to late-’80’s,” Rumford leader Mitzi Sequoia said. “The program is geared toward senior citizens in the area and tries to teach them how to […]