Calendar of Events Please note the following on every Monday throughout the year (excluding September 1st and October 13 – holidays): Rumford Rotary Meeting Hope Assoc. Bldg., 2nd floor 12:00 Noon Please note: every 2nd Tuesday of the month (excluding December, July and holidays) River Valley Chamber of Commerce Meeting Brian’s Bistro 7:30am All Chamber […]

Chamber Membership You can join The Chamber throughout the year! Join us today and let the networking begin! We are half way through 2009, why not join now for ½ price and see what The Chamber can do for you! This is an exciting time for the Chamber, we are growing with new members and […]

How Well Do You Know Your River Valley Businesses? Something new ~ The Chamber will now be offering a FREE Chamber T-Shirt as a prize for the FIRST correct answer to our monthly Business Trivia Question. All you have to do is read the monthly issue of The River Valley Chamber Page found in the […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A Maine ski area is offering cut-rate season passes to honor roll students to promote scholarship and physical fitness. Saddleback’s program on Wednesday drew support from Gov. John Baldacci, who joined Saddleback General Manager Warren Cook for the announcement of the so-called PEAK Program at the State House. PEAK stands for Promoting […]

To balance the state budget, the state has scheduled 20 shut-down days over the next two years, keeping most state workers at home, un-paid, and only providing so-called “essential state services” on those days. Have you been hurt by the state shut-down days? We’d like to hear from you for a possible story on the […]

WOODSTOCK, N.H. (AP) — A 27-year-old Massachusetts man has died after jumping off rocks into a New Hampshire river. The New Hampshire Marine Patrol says Dunvan Bolivar of Revere, Mass., was with family and friends while they were jumping off the rocks into the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock. The patrol said after jumping in at […]

YORK (AP) — The Maine Turnpike had a jump in out-of-state motorists over the Labor Day weekend, giving the state’s tourism industry a positive end-of-summer boost. The Maine Turnpike Authority said Tuesday that northbound traffic at the York toll plaza at the southern end of the turnpike was 7 percent higher than the same day […]

PORTLAND (AP) — A federal jury has ruled that a fishing vessel was not unseaworthy when it sank 60 miles off the Maine coast four years ago, resulting in the death of a fisherman. According to the Bangor Daily News, the U.S. District Court jury in Portland ruled Friday that the fishing vessel Sirius was […]

WATERVILLE (AP) — The number of women being arrested for domestic assault is on the rise in Maine. The Department of Public Safety says 1,067 women were charged with assaulting men in 2008. That’s a 38 percent increase from the 770 women charged five years ago. Law enforcement officials told the Morning Sentinel in Waterville […]

KENNEBUNK (AP) — Rescue crews worked for several hours to save a man they say slipped down a steep embankment and ended up pinned by a large boulder in Kennebunk, Maine. The Portsmouth Herald reports the man was identified as 47-year-old Tim Donovan. Officials said all except his hands and feet were covered Monday afternoon. […]