DIXFIELD — Residents from Carthage, Canton and Dixfield will have a chance Thursday, March 10, at 6 p.m. to ask questions and make comments about a planned 12- turbine industrial wind project on the Saddleback Ridge in Carthage. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection will also field questions about proposed electric transmission lines which are […]
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Dixfield Police Department to start welfare checks
DIXFIELD — Police Chief Richard Pickett announced to selecctmen Monday a new program to check on people living alone or with needs police can help with. Operation Sunshine, which will start Tuesday, involves regular checks on people who may be living alone or have some need. He said part of a patrolman’s routine duties will […]
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Dirigo senior named DAR Good Citizen
DIXFIELD — Colonial Daughters Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Farmington, presented a Good Citizen Award to Justin William Richards on Feb. 11 at a Dirigo High School assembly. The award was presented by Good Citizen Committee Chairwoman Deborah J. Judkins of Upton and Joanne Brann Page, chapter registrar, of Wilton. Richards, son of Darlene […]
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Teen injured in Dixfield snowmobile incident
DIXFIELD — A teenager was injured late Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile incident near Mountain View Campground off Route 142. According to radio traffic to responders, the 16-year-old youth fell off a snowmobile and suffered a possible broken leg. Dixfield and Mexico firefighters, Dixfield police and Med-Care Ambulance participated in the rescue. The incident is […]
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RSU 10 budget process begins; job losses expected
DIXFIELD — The Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10 board began its budget development processes Monday night when Superintendent Tom Ward said the district is losing about $1.2 million in federal aid. “Before we were an RSU, each district was operating on flat funding,” he said Tuesday afternoon. “Our budgets have gone from flat to […]
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Consolidation working well, RSU 10 officials say
DIXFIELD — Officials in Regional School Unit 10 say consolidating three districts centered in Rumford-Mexico, Dixfield and Buckfield has been a lot of work, but the consolidated system is working well. “I think people are very much in favor of making it work,” Board of Directors Chairman Jerry Wiley of Buckfield said. RSU 10, also […]
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Carthage man seriously injured in Route 2 accident
DIXFIELD — A Carthage man was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon when he lost control of a pickup truck on Route 2 and slid sideways into an oncoming commercial truck, police said. Nathan Conley, 23, suffered head and leg injuries in the 3:15 p.m. accident and was taken by Med-Care Ambulance to Rumford Hospital, Dixfield police […]
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Heavy rain swells rivers
MEXICO — Rain-swollen tributaries across western Maine, like the Webb River, continued to rage into the Androscoggin River on Tuesday as a cold front began pushing through. Monday’s temperatures in the high 40s to low 50s fell Tuesday toward more seasonable highs of mid to low 20s by 2 p.m. in Rumford, keeping crews busy […]