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Scouts host Green ME Up celebration

May 1, 2024April 29, 2024

FREEPORT — Despite chilly temperatures and rainy morning weather, Girl Scouts of Maine (GSME) successfully hosted more than 800 participants at their annual Green ME Up Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 20 on the L.L. Bean Flagship Store Campus in Freeport. The highly anticipated public event drew family crowds from across the state, eager […]

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Credit Union scholarship applications open

May 1, 2024April 29, 2024

JAY — Are you a high school senior who will be graduating this year with plans to pursue higher education? The OTIS Federal Credit Union .(OFCU) will be awarding five $1,000 scholarships to 2024 graduates who are members of OFCU and who have been accepted to a post-secondary school. Please visit https://www.otisfcu.coop/resources/scholarships/ to learn more […]

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Rick Bennett instrumental in securing votes to fund SUD recovery programs

by Nicole Carter May 1, 2024May 1, 2024

Twelve percent of the sales tax and excise tax revenue collected on the sale of adult use cannabis and products will be earmarked for community recovery centers.

Local News, Rumford Falls Times

Garage lost but house saved in Peru fire

by Bruce Farrin April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

PERU — A garage at 833 Auburn Road was lost to fire on April 23, but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the house, noted Peru Fire Chief Dan Carrier on April 24. He said around 40 firefighters from departments in Peru, Rumford, Dixfield, Canton and Mexico responding to the evening blaze, […]

Local News, Rumford Falls Times

‘D.A.R.E. is about life skills’

by Bruce Farrin April 30, 2024April 30, 2024

RUMFORD — The 37th year and 36th culmination of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) took place Wednesday in the Muskie Auditorium at Mountain Valley High School. The speaker was Rumford Police Patrolman/RSU 10 School Resource Officer Doug Maifield, who has been instructing the D.A.R.E. program that educates 5th grade students of the dangers of drugs, […]