RUMFORD — A Rumford woman was taken to Oxford County Jail in Paris on Saturday night following a knife fight at Ralph’s Store on Cumberland Street, police said. Sara Paquette, 20, of Rumford Avenue, was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, domestic criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, domestic terrorizing and violating conditions […]
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School holding themed food drives for pantry
Each month students are asked to bring in the requested nonperishable food item and at the end of the month a class will help in loading and getting the items to the food pantry. The response from students and parents has been enthusiastic and it couldn’t come at a better time as the food pantry […]
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Rumford board OKs box culvert for Swain Road
RUMFORD — Swain Road could soon get a concrete box culvert designed to handle greater flows from Bean Brook should the town get hammered by another tropical storm or hurricane. Selectmen unanimously approved a bid of $99,855 by George Roberts Precast Concrete Products of Alfred on Thursday night for a concrete box culvert. The board […]
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Rumford voters OK 2009-10 audit, pursue grant
RUMFORD — Less than a dozen people at Thursday night’s special town meeting unanimously OK’d two warrant items. The first was to approve and submit a Community Development Block Grant application for not more than $300,000. It also authorizes selectmen to accept such funds, provided the grant doesn’t require matching funds from the town, which […]
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Height of Land scenic overlook in Rangeley area now open on Route 17
LETTER D TOWNSHIP — A few travelers took pictures of the spectacular views of Mooselookmeguntic Lake from the newly reconstructed scenic overlook at the Height of Land on Route 17 on Thursday afternoon. What they saw were clouds being blown across the obscured Bemis Mountain Range by a chilling northeast wind, swirling and dancing over […]
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Special town meeting scheduled for Rumford
RUMFORD — Selectmen will convene a special town meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, to vote to accept the 2009-10 town audit and a Community Development Block Grant application, Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Wednesday. Puiia said voters had approved the town report at the annual business meeting this summer, with the exception of […]
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Nov. 3 is last day to get absentee ballots
RUMFORD — Officials in the Town Clerk’s Office are advising people seeking absentee ballots that Thursday, Nov. 3, is the last day to get them. Deputy Clerk Bev Thorne said Wednesday that there is a new statewide deadline for voting by absentee ballot. There are also signs on the office counter alerting people. Previously, absentee […]
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MVHS names Student of the Term
RUMFORD — Mountain Valley High School vice principal Chris Decker has announced the Students of the Term. Every six weeks, teachers at Mountain Valley High School select a student from each class to honor. The freshman recipient was Abby Parent. Stephanie Cushman was chosen from the sophomore class. Junior Adriana Gorham and senior Cam Welch […]