RUMFORD — Residents will return to the voting booth Tuesday, Aug. 27, for the third time in three months to vote on eight budget articles. Voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. Residents overwhelmingly defeated the proposed $7.6 million municipal budget June 11. The Board of Selectmen […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday MEXICO: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall ROXBURY: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office RUMFORD: Vote on municipal budget, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., American Legion Hall Wednesday BETHEL: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office BUCKFIELD: Emergency meeting of selectmen to take up appointment of member of RSU 10 Withdrawal Committee, […]
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Sal says goodbye
My Sal Gal was a wonderful goose. She was mostly gray, very smart and in her early days, she was the leader of the flock. She took no guff from the males, and mated only when she wanted to. She was also Finny’s mom. As with many animals, she determined that he was flawed and […]
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Rumford man arrested on criminal threatening charge
RUMFORD — Adam R. Cormier, 18, of Rumford was arrested Sunday night by Det. Sgt. James Bernard on a charge of Class C criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. A female called 911, reporting that while in front of her residence on Cumberland Street with her child and boyfriend, Cormier drove up and pointed a black […]
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RSU 10 board to discuss vote consideration petition
DIXFIELD — The RSU 10 Board will take up a petition Monday submitted last week that calls for another vote on the recently passed $36.5 million operating budget. Superintendent Craig King said on Friday that a state statute allows such a request, providing a sufficient number of valid signatures are on the petition. According to […]
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RSU 10 superintendent promoting ‘community’
DIXFIELD — Superintendent Craig King said he will promote greater teacher collaboration during his first year at RSU 10. “I want to emphasize the concept of a professional learning community,” he said Friday. That means teachers, grouped by grades or subjects, will work together; student data will be studied and new teaching strategies applied if […]
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State to hold public comment session on Anthem narrow network plan
The Maine Bureau of Insurance will hold a public comment session Thursday on Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s proposal to move a number of its current individual policyholders into a narrow network plan that strictly limits which hospitals and doctors they can use. In central Maine, Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Bridgton Hospital, […]
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GRCC chairman says Senior Center’s rent hike is “not personal”
RUMFORD – Greater Rumford Community Center Chairman Gary Dolloff said Thursday afternoon that the increase in the Rumford Senior Center’s rent at the building was “not personal,” but a result of the town rejecting the GRCC’s operating budget. At the annual town meeting in June, voters rejected the GRCC’s operating budget and summer programs budget. […]
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Selectmen give Puiia three-year contract extension
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen has approved a three-year contract for Town Manager Carlo Puiia. Puiia said the vote was 4-0, with board member Frank DiConzo absent from the session last wee. This was the last of some four of five meetings on the matter, which began with his evaluation, discussion over that evaluation, […]
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Teen with cerebral palsy made honorary truck driver
MEXICO – Devante Dupree, 13, rode around town in a Wal-Mart rig Friday morning before being presented with a $1,200 modified tricycle that left the cerebral palsy victim shaking his head in disbelief. His mother, Crystal Dupree, said the tricycle “would give him the opportunity to ride around the block and do the same things […]