There are reportedly six candidates lining up to head the Democratic Party in Maine. We hope the winning candidate, or candidates, can put the state party back on the high road and declare an end to the negative campaigning we saw in the last election. Both Republicans and Democrats have long deployed attack ads, but […]
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New Year’s Bethel lineup includes parade
BETHEL — Organizers hope they’ll attract up to 150 people for New Year’s at the Bethel Historical Society on New Year’s Eve, Randy Bennett, society executive director, said Tuesday morning. The venue for the free event, which is from 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 31, is at the Dr. Moses Mason House at […]
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Rumford police log
Arrests RUMFORD — Unless otherwise noted, the following are to be arraigned on Feb. 8 in Rumford District Court: * Thomas Taylor, 49, Rumford, domestic assault, 2:27 a.m. Dec. 26 on Maine Avenue. He was released on $699 unsecured bail. * Doreen Vlk, 50, Brimfield, Mass., operating under the influence, 8:52 p.m. Dec. 21 on […]
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View Sun Journal contact guide here
This online Contact guide contains “live links” which will take you to forms in which you can enter information on www.sunjournal.com as well as launch e-mails to department staff. This guide also has a menu bar (access it by hovering your mouse over the cover page and click on the “View in fullscreen” button when […]
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LePage needs loyalty, but also straight talk
There are many things that can be said about Gov.-elect Paul LePage’s decision to hire his daughter for his office staff. She isn’t even six months out of college and will work at a pay rate that would be the envy of other new grads in this state, $41,000 per year. For that matter, it […]
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Roxbury shoreland zoning workshop Dec. 28
ROXBURY — The Shoreland Zoning Committee will conduct a workshop on the second revised edition of the Shoreland Zoning Ordinance at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28, in the town office. Copies of the document are available at the office. Following the workshop, the Board of Selectmen will meet at 6 p.m. [email protected]
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Jan. 2-8 national Nordic ski championships to boost local economy by $1M
RUMFORD — Lodging owners are gearing up for an economic boost when hundreds of the nation’s best Nordic skiers, their coaches and support staff arrive next month for a weeklong stay. Not to mention a few hundred spectators and families of athletes who will stay for eight days and seven nights during the U.S. Ski […]
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$100K donations help resort expand Nordic area
RUMFORD — Visitors at Black Mountain of Maine ski resort on opening day Sunday are in for a surprise thanks to $100,000 in donated labor, equipment and materials. In the past three months, more than 100 contractors and volunteers across Maine — out of compassion for the ski area — helped the resort expand its […]
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Court sides with Rumford, frees up town’s $51,000 donation to Black Mountain
RUMFORD — Black Mountain of Maine ski resort got an early Christmas present Thursday from Oxford County Superior Court Justice Robert W. Clifford: $51,000 that had been held up since mid-October by a lawsuit against the town. Clifford ruled against plaintiffs Alan Gerace, Frank DiConzo, Paul Lowell, Selectman Mark Belanger and Ronald Theriault, saying Black […]
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Office closing
BETHEL — In observance of Christmas, the town office will close at noon on Thursday, Dec. 23, and reopen Monday, Dec. 27.