RUMFORD — New UMA President Dr. Jenifer Cushman visited with staff and students at the Rumford UMA Center during a luncheon last Wednesday. Cushman said, “Every time we visit a center, we have a meeting of center staff and often, community members and students, and I just like to hear about people’s lives — what […]
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“A race against myself’: 76-year-old Rumford woman participating in 13th Jimmy Fund Walk
Since 2011, Connie Venskus of Rumford has raised $18,820 in support of research and patient care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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Four juveniles from Jay, Rumford charged with burglary, theft from Wilton businesses
Becky Steadman, 38, of Oxford, a mother of one of the juveniles, was also charged.
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Rumford woman participating in her 13th Jimmy Fund Walk marathon virtually
RUMFORD — For the fourth year in a row, Connie Venskus of Rumford is doing the Jimmy Fund Walk virtually, an event she has been a part of since 2011. Venskus, who turned 76 Tuesday, will do the 26.2-mile walk Sunday, Oct. 1, all within 2 miles of her home in the Virginia section of […]
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Dolloff inducted to Maine Amateur Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame
Gary Dolloff joined the Maine Amateur Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Mast Landing Brewing Company in Freeport on Saturday, August 19. He was inducted by the legendary Rumford Panthers coach, mentor, and teacher Jerry Perkins, now of Orrington, Maine. According to Perkins, Dolloff’s passion for coaching the Mountain Valley High School […]
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The Harp Twins bring their fall tour to Rumford
The world’s only identical twin professional harpists, the Harp Twins — Camille and Kennerly Kitt — will kick off their Autumn tour with a return performance at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, at 49 Franklin’s Mystic Theater in Rumford. The sisters were trained classically (with university degrees in harp performance) but have a passion […]
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River Valley residents share frustrations about opioid problem and effects on community
Residents air complaints at town hall meeting Friday night: ‘This is the stuff you see in the big cities.’
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River Valley residents air complaints at a town hall meeting on drugs, homelessness
Residents of the River Valley community gathered to voice their fears and to find answers to the problems of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse within their community.
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Trooper fatally shoots armed Rumford man accused of killing his brother
State police went to Rangeley Plantation to arrest Shay McKenna, who missed his arraignment on a manslaughter charge stemming from his brother’s shooting death.