MEXICO — An Oxford County Superior Court justice denied one of three motions filed Friday to mandate adding the $2.7 million budget cap voters approved last year to the June town meeting warrant. The other motions are still pending further information from Rumford lawyer Seth Carey on behalf of client Wes Raynor of Mexico, court […]
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Mexico man given 30 days for selling oxycodone
PARIS — A Mexico man pleaded guilty Thursday to selling prescription painkillers to an undercover officer last year. Charles S. Cogley, 33, was sentenced in Oxford County Superior Court to two years in prison with all but 30 days suspended and two years of probation to trafficking in oxycodone. Cogley was arrested in June on a […]
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Motions filed to exclude remaining evidence against Kristina Lowe
PARIS — Six motions aimed at excluding the state’s remaining evidence against Kristina Lowe, charged in a double fatality on Route 219 in West Paris in 2012, have been filed in Oxford County Superior Court. One requests that the case be moved to a jurisdiction outside Oxford County and another asks that the father of one […]
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Rumford man enters guilty plea in crack cocaine case
PARIS — A Rumford man accused of transporting crack cocaine from Portland to the Rumford area pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in Oxford County Superior Court on Friday. Martin Lore, 28, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit trafficking in scheduled drugs and his sentence was deferred for a year. If he meets certain conditions in […]
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Judge denies preliminary injunction on spending cap ordinance
RUMFORD — Oxford County Superior Court ruled Friday that the Rumford Board of Selectmen were not in violation of the town charter when they refused to convene a special town meeting to allow residents to vote on a petition-initiated spending cap ordinance. Justice Robert Clifford said in his decision that the spending cap ordinance proposed […]
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Rumford residents seek injunction against Board of Selectmen, claim charter violation
RUMFORD — Eleven Rumford residents filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Rumford Board of Selectmen over an alleged violation of the town charter. The plaintiffs filed the complaint Friday at Oxford County Superior Court against the Board of Selectmen. In a news release by plaintiff Philip Blampied, he said that the injunction […]