SUMNER — The Town Office will be closed from Friday, Aug. 11, through Saturday, Aug. 19, because a staff member is being called to duty by the National Guard.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Crews battle woods fire in Sumner
SUMNER – At least two acres burned Thursday afternoon after a woods fire spread out of control along Greenwoods Road. Crews from more than half a dozen departments were battling the blaze at about 5 p.m. using all-terrain vehicles to get at the flames. Sumner firefighters called for help from area departments, including Buckfield, West […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Sumner suspends Planning Board meetings
SUMNER — The Planning Board has suspended all future meetings because an unexpected resignation brings membership below a quorum. Any resident interested in serving on the Planning Board or Regional School Unit 10 board of directors should submit a letter or an email of interest to [email protected] with the words “Attention: Selectmen” in the subject area. The Town […]
Posted inRiver Valley
RSU 10 board urged to look into state construction list
SUMNER — Interim Superintendent Michael Cormier suggested that the Regional School Unit 10 board look into getting on the state’s list for a new school or building renovations now. “You have schools that could benefit,” he told the board Monday night. “Have the school facilities committee look at this.” Getting a proposal on a state […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Sumner man gets additional 3-year sentence for sex crime
PARIS — A Sumner man who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl had three years added to his sentence Monday afternoon at Oxford County Superior Court. Kevin Ayer, 49, was sentenced Aug. 12 on three counts of gross sexual assault and one count of unlawful sexual contact. […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Founder of Increase Robinson Library longed to give others college education
SUMNER — A Harvard University education is available to anyone who walks through the front door of the historic Increase Robinson Library and Neighborhood House. That’s the promise and the mission of the late Dr. Lucien Robinson, who in the 1940s, bequeathed his great-great-grandfather Increase Robinson’s house to the towns of Sumner and Hartford, along […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
Attorney: All former SAD 21 towns must vote to leave RSU 10, or ‘it doesn’t happen’
SUMNER — The lawyer for Regional School Unit 10, Dick Spencer, told the board that all four towns that once made up School Administrative District 21 must vote to pull out of the district in order for that to happen. “If any town chooses not to withdraw, then it doesn’t happen,” he said following a […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
RSU 10 board approves proposed $38.23M budget
SUMNER — The Regional School Unit 10 board Monday overwhelmingly approved a proposed 2016-17 operating budget of $38.23 million. It’s 4.2 percent more than this fiscal year and 2.9 percent more for the local share compared to 2015-16. “We have cut,” Dixfield representative Barbara Chow said. “We looked through this multiple times and we’re realistic […]