Here’s a look at what some members of our online audience had to say about stories in the news this week. Readers were quick to praise the efforts of all those involved in rescuing a woman after she fell down a bank of the Androscoggin River in Mexico Tuesday. Susan Byram of Mexico summed it […]
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Selectmen increase recreation director to full time
MEXICO — Selectmen and the Budget Committee slogged through the proposed Recreation Department account for more than two hours Wednesday night, then came up with two very different figures to recommend to voters in June. When budget figures for the three sections of recreation accounts — recreation building, recreation park and recreation programs — were […]
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School junior has chance to attend Harvard program
MEXICO — Mountain Valley High School junior Renee Knox has been accepted to a program at Harvard University. During the summer, she will take two courses alongside college and adult learners. Harvard professors will teach the courses. Knox said, “I’m thrilled about the opportunity to attend classes at Harvard. I’ll earn college credit before I […]
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Canton woman, 63, rescued from riverbank in Mexico
MEXICO — A Canton woman who tumbled 80 to 100 feet down an embankment to the edge of the Androscoggin River behind Walmart Tuesday was airlifted to a Lewiston hospital. Barbara Cormier, 63, suffered a fractured leg and hip, rescue officials said. Strapped into a litter basket by a rope rescue team, Cormier was pulled […]
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Lillian Filiault Richard
MEXICO — Lillian Filiault Richard of Whitman Street, Mexico, died March 23, at home. She was born Feb. 26, 1917, on Waldo Street, Rumford, the daughter of Roseanna Dubois and Origene Filiault. She graduated from Stephens High School in 1935. She married Ivan Richard on July 8, 1940, and they shared 60 years of marriage. […]
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Firefighters douse garbage fire at transfer station
MEXICO — Eric Schmersal said in his 17 years as director of the Northern Oxford Regional Solid Waste Transfer Station he never had a fire there until Thursday. Mexico and Rumford firefighters battled a messy blaze for more than an hour. It started in a compactor and spread to a trailer. About 20 firefighters with […]
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Oxford County arrest log
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: * Troy J. Blanchard, 22, of Mexico, March 21, probation violation, Mexico Police Department. * Tristin J. Dayon, 31, of Dixfield, March 21, fugitive from justice, Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. * Kevin B. Haines, 52, of Norway, March 22, operating under the influence, […]
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Walter M. Leckey
NORWAY — Walter M. Leckey, 91, died Wednesday, March 21, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. He was born in 1921, in Mexico, the second son of Wesley and Lucy Adams Leckey. He was a lifetime resident of the area, attending local schools and graduating from Mexico High School, Class of 1938. A U.S. Navy Veteran of […]
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Rene J. Richard
WINTERPORT — Rene J. Richard, 86, died Monday, March 19, in Winterport. He was formerly of Mexico and Eustis. He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., April 18, 1925, a son of Dennis and Regina (Thibodeau) Richard. He attended school in Massachusetts. He worked for Oxford Paper Co. in Rumford as a helper on the digesters. […]
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Oxford County arrest log
PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Jail: Christopher R. Francis, 20, of Norway, March 20, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, Maine State Police. Peter H. MacCulloch, 70, of Upton, March 20, operating under the influence, operating after suspension, illegal attachment of plates and operating an unregistered motor vehicle, $1,000 unsecured […]