RUMFORD — Police legwork, Facebook and a driver charged with operating after suspension helped police solve the April theft of a purse from a Hannaford grocery cart inside the store. The purse contained $150, Sgt. Douglas Maifeld said Tuesday. Maifeld summoned Ruthann Leblanc, 63, of Canton, on a misdemeanor theft charge. Leblanc, who police accused […]
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Eugene Boivin’s legacy to Rumford in Down East magazine
RUMFORD — Former Rumford Selectman J. Arthur Boivin said he was surprised Tuesday to find his brother’s Native American silhouette steel sculptures depicted in the latest Down East magazine. Titled “Where In Maine?” the two-page spread in the July 2011 issue asks readers to identify the town where the photograph was taken. “I think it’s […]
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Rumford Town Report conditionally accepted
RUMFORD — Less than 60 people attended Monday night’s annual town business meeting in Rumford Falls Auditorium. They were there to discuss the 40-article warrant and vote on the first four articles, which were to choose a moderator, accept the report of municipal officers for the year ending June 30, 2010, set the tax collection […]
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50 pro-wind signs stolen in Rumford
RUMFORD — Police are investigating the theft of blue and white political signs asking people to “Vote Yes to Wind Energy” and to “Vote Yes on the Wind Ordinance.” More than three dozen signs that were placed Monday along Route 108 and from Rumford Center to the bottom of Falls Hill on Route 2, were […]
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In memory
Yvonne Turbide Campbell had been a Rumford Hospital nurse for 45 years when she died in June 2010. Her family donated the Yvonne Turbide Campbell memorial bench in the emergency department entrance of Rumford Hospital. Pictured with the memorial are, from left, Campbell’s daughter Paula Voter, her sister Julie Chiasson and niece Gail Dorr. Voter […]
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Rumford voters urged to approve wind ordinance
RUMFORD — Boston-based wind developer First Wind recently launched a campaign to gain voter approval of an expedited wind ordinance proposal. The town meeting vote on the second such proposal happens on Tuesday, June 14. It could well decide the future of wind in Rumford one way or the other, according to months of rhetoric […]
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Submerged VW found, reeled out of Androscoggin River
RUMFORD — “Got it!” yelled the salvage crew inside the Bethel Fire Department’s rescue boat. They were 75 minutes into Saturday morning’s second-day search of the Androscoggin River for Tyson Hanson’s silver 2002 Volkswagen Passat. “They found it!” immediately echoed the cry from a large crowd gathered to watch the spectacle at the river’s 13-acre […]
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Car rolls into Androscoggin River; search to resume today
RUMFORD — It was quite a sinking feeling for Tyson Hanson early Friday morning in more ways than one. Hanson, 20, of Rumford, witnessed his car roll quickly down an embankment at a Rumford park and into the the dark depths of the Androscoggin River at about 1 a.m. “I was with my friend transferring […]
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Rumford Hospital Auxiliary purchases solarium furniture
RUMFORD — Furniture items ordered by the Rumford Hospital Auxiliary are now in use in the hospital solarium in the John H. Welsh inpatient wing. Artwork for patient rooms, also purchased by the Auxiliary, is awaiting hanging. Auxiliary members had heard that patients would like a table in the solarium where they could do puzzles, […]