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DONATION TO FOOD PANTRIES
Dec 30, 2011 12:00 amDONATION TO FOOD PANTRIES -- The beano committee of the Snowshoe Club recently presented $200 checks to the GRAMPA Food Pantry, located in the Mexico Green Church, and the Dixfield Food Pantry, located on the Common Road in Dixfield. From left, Stephen Gallant of the Club presents a check to Sue Clark, assistant treasurer for GRAMPA, and Dixfield Food Pantry Director Linda Hinkley accepts a check from Calvin Lyons of the Club. At right is Club member Maynard Murphy. (Times photo by Bruce Farrin)
DONATION TO HOPE ASSOCIATION
Dec 30, 2011 12:00 amDONATION TO HOPE ASSOCIATION -- Ed Roach (right), Grand Knight for Knights of Columbus, Fr. AJ Barry Council 2091, presents a check of $1,107.20 to Betty Wood, a client representing the Hope Association. To their left, Donna Landry, program director for Hope, stands between clients Beth Wasson and Ed Doiron. Roach said the funds are from the council's Tootsie Roll drive held in September. Councils statewide conduct the drives, which is the largest fundraising project the Knights undertake for the benefit of people with disabilities.
Box culvert approved for Swain Road
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- At a special town meeting Thursday, residents voted unanimously to spend $175,000 from the undesignated fund balance to buy a box culvert and install it on Swain Road. The purchase had been recommended by selectmen and the Finance Committee.
The previous Bean Brook culverts were blown out by flooding in late August from Tropical Storm Irene.
Because Rumford doesn’t have enough funds from road appropriations approved by voters in June to replace the culverts and repair the damage, the money needed to be taken from the undesignated fund balance.
CC's Outdoor Journal; Up, Up and Away
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amBETHEL- Looking back on the morning I spent flying down the Androscoggin River to Rumford, my spirit soared as high as the plane as we flew over the stark white blades of the wind turbines in Roxbury (which didn't look so enormous from my vantage point), over the picturesque town of Andover and then on into Grafton Notch to marvel at the grandeur of the mountains; nothing could have prepared me for the exhilaration of my first ride in a single-engine plane.
Education to begin on new fireworks law
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Chief Bob Chase’s request for a special town meeting to consider a moratorium on the use and sale of fireworks was essentially denied by the board last Thursday, which took no action on the measure.
With the New Year, a new state law will allow citizens 21 and older to sell to purchase, possess, and light off fireworks. In all likelihood, in communities throughout Maine, the ringing in of New Year’s 2012 will be accompanied by the whistles and booms of fireworks.
Feel the spirit with Ink Plaza
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD- Ink Plaza is now in it's second year of business. They are expanding their shop so they can assist all their customers at once. Local law offices, churches, non-profit organizations, the town office and residents throughout the River Valley are finding they can save money with the help of Ink Plaza.
Be road-safe this winter with Adley's
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD- Servicing the western Maine area since 1978, Adley Auto Sales and Service is a full-service maintenance and automotive repair center, sales of quality used vehicles and a complete auto body repair facility that has been performing high quality, guaranteed automotive repairs.
Bringing Christmas cheer to the valley
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amRumford mill employees are seen with the packages they delivered for the 70 cases the mill sponsored for Santa's Helpers. From left are Sue Mills, Judilee Whittemore, Peter Theriault, Linda Hallock, Kelli Carrier and Janet Hall.
Hannaford ground beef recall
Dec 23, 2011 12:00 amREGION -- Hannaford, a Scarborough, Maine-based grocery chain, is recalling an undetermined amount of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall are any size package of the following:
* “73% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
* “75% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
* “80% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
