Class of 1948 MEXICO — The Mexico High School Class of 1948 will meet for their monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Mexico Chicken Coop. Winter concert BETHEL — The 14th annual Telstar Music Department Winter Concert will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, in the Helen Berry Auditorium […]
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Cards for soldiers BETHESDA, Md. — Send a wounded soldier a Christmas card. When filling out Christmas cards this year, take one card, or more, and send to: A Recovering American Soldier, c/o Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 8901 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md., 20889-5600. This is a small way to say thank you to […]
CMCC holding registration night for Oxford County students
MEXICO — Registration Night will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, for current and prospective students who are interested in taking classes in Oxford County or at the campus in Auburn. College staff will be on hand to discuss classes offered, degree programs, financial aid and scholarship availability. The session will […]
Mexico’s Region 9 board meets in closed session
MEXICO — The Region 9 board met in a series of closed-door sessions Wednesday night for a total of 60 minutes. At the end of the final session, no action was taken, and director Brenda Gammon said no action would be taken at a future meeting. The board met first with Tom Trenholm, the vocational […]
Mexico Math Night adds up to fun
MEXICO — Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles gathered around their little ones Thursday night to watch their youngsters learn how much fun math can be. It was the second year for Math Night at Meroby Elementary School and nearly 200 family members and youngsters turned out to have fun playing games that involved numbers. “This […]
Census survey shows snapshot of life in Maine towns
Life isn’t so rosy if you’re a Rumford resident: Your commute is longer, your job pays less and that family next door is a lot more likely to be living in poverty. Call Lewiston home? If you’re 60 or older, there’s about a 50-50 chance you speak French or some other foreign language (but it’s probably […]
Accident on Route 120 in Mexico sends one to local hospital
MEXICO — An accident on Route 120 limited traffic to one lane and sent one woman to the hospital at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday. Sandra Standeven of Andover was driving a black Dodge Durango north on Route 120 when she lost control of her vehicle, Mexico police Chief James Theriault said. Standeven’s mother, Jane Reed, 78, […]
Mexico’s Region 9 to house local access TV
MEXICO — The Region 9 School of Applied Technology board on Wednesday unanimously approved use of an upstairs room by the Western Valley Access Channel. The move is expected to provide students at Region 9, as well as others from RSU 10 and SAD 44 in the future, with added resources for learning how to […]
S. Ford: Resorting to dirty tricks
I could not believe the incredibly divisive rhetoric espoused by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe when defending her vote against a middle-class tax cut, claiming it was “unknown” how many of those businesses were so-called “small” businesses. I think the vast majority of Mainers would agree that they would love to be in the position to […]