RAAPA Chorus holding rehearsals RUMFORD — The RAAPA Chorus will begin rehearsals for the May 2 and 3 Dinner Theater performances on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. in Muskie Auditorium. Anyone interest in singing should contact Judith Kuhn at 364-7242 or [email protected] prior to Feb. 10 to reserve a folder of music. Auditions for […]
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Mexico Public Library to host ‘Winter Reading Olympics’
MEXICO — The Mexico Public Library will be hosting their own type of Winter Olympics starting Monday Feb. 3, when its “Reading Olympics” for kids ages 2 to 12 begins. Library Director Valerie Messana said that the Mexico Public Library attempts to hold a winter reading program every year, but with the Winter Olympics beginning […]
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Mexico, Rumford selectmen to meet about consolidating services
MEXICO — The Mexico and Rumford boards of selectmen will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, for an update from New Hampshire consultants Municipal Resources Inc. about consolidating services. They will meet in the Calvin B. Lyons room of the Town Office. Mexico and Rumford have been meeting since June to discuss ways the […]
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Maine DOT holding public meeting to discuss Toll Bridge
MEXICO — The Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Town Office to discuss replacement of the Toll Bridge, Wayne Frankhauser of the MDOT Bridge Program said. Frankhauser said the 1930 bridge is showing its age and the MDOT received funding for preliminary steps to replace […]
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Mexico Library to hold Kids’ Winter Reading Olympics
MEXICO — The Mexico Public Library will host a winter Reading Olympics for kids ages 2-12 during February. The program will begin on Monday, Feb. 3, and continue through Friday, Feb. 28. The Reading Olympics will be a reading incentive program and will also incorporate exposure to some great new children’s books that the library […]
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Mexico, Rumford firefighters handle two simultaneous fire calls in Mexico
MEXICO — Two simultaneous fire alarm calls at 6:30 p.m. Thursday sent Mexico and Rumford firefighters scrambling across town. Mexico fire Chief Gary Wentzell said at the fire station afterward that one alarm involved a small fire at Mexico Laundromat & Dry Cleaning in the small plaza behind the fire station off Main Street. The […]
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Neighborhood watch program unveiled for Mexico
MEXICO — For the second time in two months, the Police Department held a meet-and-greet at the police station to discuss plans for the upcoming neighborhood watch program. A dozen people gathered Monday in the police station’s conference room, where Chief Roy Hodsdon and several Mexico Explorers reported the Dec. 3 meet-and-greet. Topics discussed included […]
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MVHS bottle drive for Project Grad RUMFORD — Members of the Mountain Valley High School Class of 2014 are collecting bottles for Project Graduation. Anyone wishing to donate bottles may drop them off at the Waldo Street Bottle Depot and tell them that they are to go to MVHS Class of 2014. To arrange for […]
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Mexico man crawls 2.5 miles after breaking leg in snowmobile mishap
MEXICO — A Mexico man with a broken lower leg crawled 2½ miles down Thompson Hill in six hours to get help early Friday morning after crashing his snowmobile. Nicholas Brown, 57, said late Tuesday afternoon that it was quite the ordeal at about 24 degrees. “It was a bad situation, but it could have […]
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Mexico man arrested in connection with 2012 fire at USM
MEXICO — A local man was charged Monday with setting a fire in a dormitory at the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus while a student there in 2012, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a press release Tuesday. The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested Thomas “TJ” Williams, 23, at his […]