Sumner
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Catholic school to hold open house BRUNSWICK — St. John’s Catholic School will host its annual open house on Sunday, Jan. 31, for prospective pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students and their families. To kick off the celebration of National Catholic Schools Week, an opening Mass will be held at 11 a.m. at St. John the Baptist […]
Buckfield selectmen weigh options for archiving historic documents
BUCKFIELD — Peggy O’Kane, the digital collections supervisor of the Maine State Library, attended Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting to answer questions and discuss how the library might be able to assist the town with preserving some historic documents in a digital format. The items O’Kane plans to archive digitally include journals from Zadoc Long […]
This week’s agenda
Tuesday Buckfield: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Building Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Paris: Conservation Committee, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Wilton: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Public Safety building, 874 Main St. Wednesday Newry: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Otisfield: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Paris: Policy and […]
This week’s agenda
Tuesday Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., Town Hall Livermore Falls: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Mexico: Mexico Sewer District Board of Trustees, 4:30 p.m., Town Hall Paris: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, executive session, 6 p.m., Town Office Sumner: Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Office Wednesday Buckfield: Planning Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center […]
Sumner’s Past Gas & Ancient Oils Museum is a blast from the gas
SUMNER — One day about 15 years ago, Tim Wallace announced to wife Sue that he was going to be moving a derelict Auburn gas station on to their bucolic country lawn. And then he did. “I said, ‘You’re nuts, you’re not bringing home a filling station,’” said Sue Wallace. “I thought he really lost […]
Timothy J. Dunham
1956 – 2015 AUBURN — Timothy J. Dunham, 58, of Sumner passed away in Auburn on Thursday, Sept. 10. He was born on Dec. 29, 1956, in Arlington, Mass. Tim was raised in Sumner and graduated from Buckfield High School. He was a member of Millwright Local No. 548 in Minneapolis, Minn., and he worked […]
Rumford, Mexico Historical Societies to host Sumner museum tour on Sept. 19
RUMFORD — Historical societies in Rumford and Mexico will kick off the fall meeting schedule with a museum tour in Sumner from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19. Rumford Historical Society member Jane Peterson said the The Past Gas and Ancient Oil Petroleum Collectible Museum is at 380 Black Mountain Road in Sumner. “Neither […]
Sumner road closing for bridge replacement
SUMNER — Tuell Hill Road will be closed Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the intersection of Redding Road for the replacement of Twin Bridge. The shutdown will last about one month, according to local officials. Voters were told at the annual town meeting in August 2014 that the bridge over the West Branch Nezinscot River is […]
First days of school in RSU 10
DIXFIELD — A “First day of school” chart printed in the Region and City editions Monday contained incorrect start dates for students in RSU 10. They are: In Byron, Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, Hanover, Mexico, Peru, Roxbury and Rumford, students in grades kindergarten through six and grade nine start Tuesday, Sept. 1. Students in grades seven, […]