MEXICO — The Planning Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Town Office. “We just finished up work on some ordinances that the selectmen approved to be placed on the June ballot,” member Reggie Arsenault said. “At this point, I’m not sure what we’ll be talking about at our meeting.” After […]
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School bus, car collide in Mexico
MEXICO — A Regional School Unit 10 bus and a car collided Wednesday at Route 17 and Harlow Hill Road, damaging both vehicles. The six Dirigo Middle School students on the bus and their driver, David Briggs, 56, of Byron, were not injured, Dean Milligan, Med-Care Ambulance director of operations, said. Mexico police officer Rob […]
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This week’s agenda
Tuesday Bethel: Budget Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Jay: RSU 73 public forum on teacher evaluations, 6 p.m., Spruce Mountain High School Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Selectmen, 5 p.m., Town Office Roxbury: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Hall Rumford: RSU 10 Buildings Forum, 6:30 p.m., […]
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RSU 10 ed tech to retire after 27 years of service
RUMFORD — For 27 years, Jane Doucette has provided extra help to students in Regional School Unit 10 classes. When the end of the school year arrives in June, she will leave the classroom as an educational technician to join her husband, Kim, who will retire from Catalyst Paper, formerly the NewPage mill, in April. […]
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Mexico selectmen to decide on placing ordinances on June ballot
MEXICO — A week after the Planning Board approved sex offender and curfew ordinances, the Board of Selectmen will decide at their March 10 meeting on whether to approve their recommendations and place the ordinances on the June 9 ballot. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Mexico Town Office. Both ordinances were […]
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Potential educators invited to video conference
MEXICO — University College at Rumford/Mexico invites the community to attend a video conference from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, as faculty from the University of Maine at Augusta outline local and online opportunities to earn Maine teaching credentials. Anyone considering a career in K-12 Education is invited to attend. Employment of […]
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Maine author, illustrator teaches craft to Mexico students
MEXICO — A well-known Maine author and illustrator taught nearly 300 students the basics of his drawing craft during an assembly Thursday morning at Meroby Elementary School. Kevin Hawkes stunned and wowed the prekindergarten through fifth-grade students when he drew four lines and a dot while using pastels and a document camera that simultaneously projected […]
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Mexico board approves curfew, sex offender ordinances
MEXICO — The Planning Board voted Thursday evening to approve a curfew ordinance and a sex offender ordinance drafted by police Chief Roy Hodsdon. Hodsdon told planners last month that the town has no ordinance restricting where sex offenders can reside. “Most towns will have an ordinance that states sex offenders can’t live within a […]
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Rumford Historical Society plans spring meetings
RUMFORD — The Rumford Historical Society is planning for its spring meetings to be held in March, April and May. The March meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, instead of the usual third Wednesday of the month. Note the meeting time change from 7 p.m. The meeting will be held […]
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Author Hawkes to visit Meroby School
MEXICO — Wicked killah blizzards aren’t the only cool things happening in Mexico this winter. On Thursday and Friday, March 5 and 6, author and artist of Amazon’s Best Children’s Book of 2014, Kevin Hawkes, will visit Meroby Elementary school. These days, Hawkes teaches kids, and assorted related adults in evening sessions, all about New […]