WALES — RSU 4 will host a community forum at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Oak Hill Middle School for parents to ask questions and learn more about the district’s response to a series of bomb threats. Last week, four bomb threats evacuated three schools. According to Superintendent Jim Hodgkin, three students have confessed to three […]
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RSU 4 plans public forum after four bomb threats in a week
WALES — After four bomb threats in one week — and three student confessions — school officials are planning a public forum for parents in Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales to answer any lingering questions. RSU 4 Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said he planned to tell parents the date of the forum in a note to be […]
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Event benefits Young Writers LITCHFIELD — Oak Hill Young Writers Club will throw a benefit from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Carrie Ricker School, 573 Richmond Road. The event will feature a baked potato dinner with all the fixings and a dessert auction as well as Carrie Ricker and Oak Hill students, […]
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Bomb scare again closes Litchfield elementary school
LITCHFIELD — A bomb threat at Carrie Ricker School on Friday forced school officials to move students for the second day in a row. The school for grades three to five was evacuated Thursday after the words “Bomb, bomb, bomb, die” were discovered written in the boys’ bathroom. Messages left with the RSU 4 superintendent […]
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Small plane lands on Maine Turnpike, takes off again
UPDATED 11:30 AM: LITCHFIELD — A warden service pilot used the Maine Turnpike for an emergency landing and to take off after refueling. The Maine Turnpike Authority says the airplane landed in the northbound lanes in Litchfield shortly before 9 a.m. In addition to the pilot, a biologist was on board. No one was hurt. After […]
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Another bomb threat in RSU 4 closes Litchfield elementary school early
LITCHFIELD — A third bomb scare in a week emptied another school in RSU 4 on Thursday afternoon. The words, “Bomb, bomb, bomb, die,” were found written in the boys’ bathroom at Carrie Ricker School a little after 2:30 p.m., Superintendent Jim Hodgkin said. The school for grades three to five was evacuated and students […]
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Oak Hill: Two days, two bomb threats
WALES — A bomb threat cleared Oak Hill High School on Tuesday morning shortly after RSU 4 Superintendent Jim Hodgkin returned from Oak Hill Middle School, fresh from talking to those students about a threat that closed that school Monday. At 10:30 a.m., Hodgkin was awaiting the arrival of a Maine State Police bomb-sniffing dog […]
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Erlon George Ricker
LEWISTON — Erlon George Ricker, 81, passed away on April 21, at Central Maine Medical Center. He was born Aug. 3, 1931, in Litchfield, the son of Carrie and Everett Ricker. He attended Litchfield Academy and graduated in 1949. He plowed snow for Litchfield for many years, raised chickens, was the town fire chief, worked […]
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Oak Hill: Two days, two bomb threats
WALES — A bomb threat cleared Oak Hill High School on Tuesday morning shortly after RSU 4 Superintendent Jim Hodgkin returned from Oak Hill Middle School where he talked to students about a threat that closed that school Monday. In both cases, the word “bomb” was found written in a girls’ bathroom, according to Hodgkin. […]