MEXICO — The Hope Association recently hosted its 42nd annual Snowmobile Ride-In at its new location at 91 Highland Terrace Road. Throughout the day, almost 70 people enjoyed rides and great food, as well as fun and fellowship. The Mexico Trailblazers Snowmobile Club, led by Nick Brown and Elliot Knox, groomed the trails, posted signs […]
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Class gatherings
MEXICO — Mexico High School Class of 1949 will meet for lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Dick’s Restaurant. Spouses and friends are welcome. — RUMFORD — Stephens High School Class of 1952 will have a monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 6, at Connie’s Place on Congress Street. All classmates, spouses and friends are welcome.
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Summer Meals Program volunteer sought PARIS — United Way of Oxford County is seeking a skilled volunteer to help organize the 2017 Summer Meals Program in the Oxford Hills area. The Summer Meals Program provides a healthy free lunch to all children 18 and younger. The volunteer would be responsible for organizing meal sites, coordinating volunteers for the […]
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President Trump’s trade war with Mexico would be a disaster
“Mexico braces for a trade war with Washington,” headline in the Financial Times, Jan. 31, 2017. Let’s hope not, because a trade war triggered by President Donald Trump would be an act of pure economic aggression, unjustified either by the United States’ economic and political interests or by Mexico’s behavior. It would be the economic […]
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Remaining silent will not be an option
WASHINGTON — Let me begin with a word of thanks to Stephen K. Bannon, the chief White House strategist. With a single interview, he dispelled any illusions that normal or productive relations with the media will even be possible under the Trump administration. True, the new president’s modern predecessors in both parties all tangled with […]
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Can a 20 percent tax pay for the Mexico border wall?
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is promising Mexico will pay for his massive border wall. On Thursday, his administration finally suggested how: a 20 percent tax on products imported from south of the border. The new measure could be part of a comprehensive tax reform package that Trump and Congress will work out, the White […]
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Donald Trump seeks 20 percent tax on Mexican goods to fund border wall
PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump called on fellow Republicans to help him enact “great and lasting change” during a party retreat Thursday but offered few details. Later his spokesman said the president will seek a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports to pay for a proposed border wall. The president was greeted by cheers as […]
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Mexican president cancels meeting with Donald Trump
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday he will not attend a planned Jan. 31 meeting with President Donald J. Trump, hours after Trump tweeted that the meeting should be canceled if Mexico won’t pay for a border wall. Pena Nieto’s message on Twitter ended days of uncertainty about how he would […]
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Donald Trump moving forward with border wall, weighs refugee cuts
Updated 3:34 p.m.: WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved aggressively to tighten the nation’s immigration controls Wednesday, signing executive actions to jumpstart construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall and block federal grants from immigrant-protecting “sanctuary cities.” “Beginning today the United States of America gets back control of its borders,” Trump declared during a visit to the […]
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Mexico limits hours for residents to get sand
MEXICO — Selectmen decided Tuesday to limit the hours that town sand will be available to residents, in part, because neighboring Peru will close its supply to its residents starting Feb. 1. The decision followed news that Peru selectmen decided Monday to stop providing sand to residents next month because people with large trucks and nonresidents […]