PARIS — Selectmen are undecided how to use nearly $250,000 from overpayment to the state retirement system. Town Clerk Liz Knox said Monday that the check for $247,012.35 was deposited. It was dated July 31, according to bookkeeper Paula Locke, who asked the town’s auditor, Bill Hall, to attend last week’s Board of Selectmen meeting to […]
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Correction: One more festival vendor
AUBURN — A vendor for this weekend’s Great Falls Balloon Festival was omitted from Sunday’s special festival section. The William J. Rogers American Legion Post 153 will be a vendor, selling sausage subs and lime rickeys. The information was not submitted to the Sun Journal.
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Mexico selectmen changing meeting dates
MEXICO — The Board of Selectmen voted on July 16 to switch board meetings from the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month to the first and third Tuesdays, the same as Rumford. Town Manager John Madigan said, “Last year, between Mexico and Rumford, there was a selectmen meeting every week for me to attend, […]
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Former Center Lovell Inn owners write about ‘Passing Along Our Dream’
LOVELL — An abandoned house in a picturesque town 60 miles northwest of Portland became the stuff that dreams are made of for thousands of people over a 40-year span. The internationally known Center Lovell Inn and Restaurant gave more than 12,000 dreamers the opportunity to gamble on their destiny by writing an essay that […]
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Rumford zip line vote expected Thursday
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen is expected to act Thursday on the final terms to lease land for a zip line project. The meeting gets underway at 6:30 p.m. in the Rumford Falls Auditorium. The board met July 7 in executive session with town attorney Jennifer Kreckel to discuss the lease to Wow-Za! Ziplines, […]
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Stop by Rangeley Family Medicine for a smile and a song
RANGELEY— Renowned for its sparkling lakes, prolific wildlife and fertile forests, the Rangeley region now boasts of its own singing provider. Originally from Idaho, Dorothy Mosher came to Rangeley Family Medicine directly from Casper, Wyoming, originally as a stand-in provider to provide support to the medical team. She soon realized that this was the place […]
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Project focuses on addressing seniors’ needs
PARIS — The town is the first municipality in the state to win a grant for the Age-Friendly Community initiative to help administer a survey to determine the needs of its senior population. Surveys have recently begun to trickle in. Attorney Sarah Glynn has spearheaded the project run through the AARP and World Health Organization in […]
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Two killers must have taken days to cut their way out of prison; $100,000 reward posted
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Two murderers who used power tools to escape from prison must have taken days to cut through steel walls and pipes and break through the bricks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday as a $100,000 reward was posted for information leading to their capture. Authorities were investigating how the inmates obtained the […]
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Mexico selectmen polled on police coverage issue
MEXICO — With the upcoming vote on police coverage, the Board of Selectmen were asked on May 26 their views on the local police department versus having coverage from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. Gary Wentzell asked the board, “Is it worth saving half a mil to go with Sheriff’s Office, to lose your local […]
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Police-sheriff issue, zip line moved to June 9 secret ballot vote
RUMFORD — More than 300 citizens turned for the annual town business meeting Monday evening, with the majority voting to refer both the police-sheriff issue and the zip line question to June 9 secret ballot vote. The secret ballot vote will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the American Legion. After a […]