Unless otherwise noted, the following are to be arraigned on Jan. 3 in Rumford District Court: * Kera Radcliff, 25, Rumford, domestic assault, 8:32 p.m. Nov. 11 on Loudine Avenue. She was released on $800 unsecured bail and will be arraigned on Dec. 6. * Daniel Pelletier, 32, Rumford, operating after suspension, 8:17 a.m. Nov. […]
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Windfall allows Rumford library to open on Saturdays again
RUMFORD — Thanks to an accounting error last year, the Public Library will once again be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays starting Nov. 19. The library page position was also restored, library Trustee Linda Macgregor said Tuesday afternoon. It is a paid internship/apprenticeship that trains a student from RSU 10’s Mountain […]
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Society speaker RUMFORD — The Rumford Area Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the town hall auditorium. A business meeting will be followed by a program on the history of the Rumford Association for the Advancement of the Performing Arts, presented by Judy Kuhn. The program is open to the […]
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Eric N. ‘Ric’ Richard
RUMFORD — Eric N. “Ric” Richard, 46, died Thursday, Nov. 10, in Rumford. He was a resident of Cedar Lane in Rumford. He was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 22, 1965, a son of George and Eileen Richard. He graduated from Rumford High School, Class of 1983. He was an administrative officer for the Rumford […]
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Ordinance wrong for Rumford
The citizens of Rumford have voted to accept a very negative wind power ordinance. The selectmen received help from committee people who drafted the first ordinance and others. The town manager assured Rumford voters that a “yes” or “no” vote was for the ordinance only and not for a wind facility when, in fact, the […]
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Rita M. Lizotte
RUMFORD — Rita M. Lizotte, 93, of Franklin Street, died Saturday, Nov. 12, at her residence, with her loving family by her side. She was born in Rumford on Jan. 3, 1918, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine Gautreau Perry. After the death of her birth mother, she was raised by her father and stepmother, […]
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A plan for redevelopment
The Sun Journal recently carried a picture of a Rumford selectman proclaiming that tax-acquired properties should be sold, since she didn’t want to be a slumlord. That is all well and good; however, the comprehensive plan (approved by town voters in November 1998 by a 2-to-1 ratio) clearly charges selectmen with demolishing those deteriorated buildings […]
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Family recalls slain Rumford man
PERU — George and Penny Richard said that as long as they could recall, their son Eric “Ric” Richard wanted to be a police officer. It was his passion, that and family, his cousin Michelle De Roche-Johnson of Peru said at a family gathering at his parents’ house in Peru on Friday. “His caring knew […]