RUMFORD — A group of volunteers gathered Thursday afternoon to continue discussing possible locations to construct a recreational bridge over the Swift River. The process began four years earlier when Carl Constanzi, program coordinator for the Let’s Go! 5-2-1-0 program in Oxford County, received a Community Transformation Grant that created four Active Community Environment Teams […]
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Lewiston vs. Edward Little Football: Bridge to history
Forget sports for a minute. Not many traditions of any persuasion that prevailed in society in 1897 still are being celebrated today. Baseball’s initial World Series was six years away. The Spanish-American War was yet to begin. William McKinley was president. And a football team from Edward Little High School defeated an outfit from Lewiston […]
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Flags that line Livermore Falls bridge broken off
LIVERMORE FALLS — Twenty-five U.S. flags were snapped off their holders Tuesday morning on Memorial Bridge, and people are upset. Residents Pat and Wayne Knowlton put up 100 flags every year. Wayne made the friction holders for the flags. They get the flags from the American Legion. “We recycle,” Pat Knowlton said. A new flag […]
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Club plays to bridge the gap for Alzheimer’s research
OXFORD — On Sunday, June 21, more than 100 bridge players from the Oxford Hills, Lewiston-Auburn areas and beyond are expected to gather here to raise funds and awareness for the Alzheimer’s Association by playing continuous rounds from sunrise to sunset. Dubbed “The Longest Day,” it is one of thousands of bridge tournaments being held across […]
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MDOT holds hearing on Bethel bridge deck replacement
BETHEL — Rebuilding the deck of the Androscoggin River Bridge on Route 2 is slated to start next April and take five or six months, residents at Tuesday night’s public hearing by the Maine Department of Transportation were told. Project Manager Joel Kittredge said that while the bridge is in decent shape, the deck was […]
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Rumford selectmen approve $2,500 initiated article request from RVHCC
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen voted to approve a $2,500 initiated article request from the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition during Monday evening’s public hearing at the Rumford Falls Auditorium. Executive Director Patricia Duguay told the selectmen that the coalition employed six full-time employees, three part-time employees and offered internships. Duguay added that one […]
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Taiwan plane crash leaves at least 31 dead
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The pilot in TransAsia Airways Flight 235 said “mayday, mayday, engine flameout” moments before the propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, aviation officials said Thursday, but they declined comment on a possible cause for the accident. Video images of the plane’s final moments in the air captured on car […]