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Budget cuts force reduced public hours
Aug 12, 2011 12:00 amREGION -- Effective August 15, the Social Security offices in Maine will be open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. -– a reduction of 30 minutes each weekday.
While agency employees will continue to work their regular hours, this shorter public window will allow them to complete face-to-face service with the visiting public without incurring the cost of overtime.
Lochness monster, castle in Rumford's future?
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- If a longtime resident of Strathglass Park realizes his dream, the lochness monster and a Scottish castle will join a palladium in the center of the park on a 1.5-acre parcel of land known as "The Pines."
Gary Morrison, who moved here in 1980, issued a letter to the Board of Selectmen on July 21, offering the town his services as caretaker of a "The Pines," which bisects the center of Strathglass Park.
He is seeking to implement a personal 10-year, three-phase plan to add amenities to the overall landscape incrementally.
Dr. Johns joins hospital’s Rural Track Residency Program
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Dr. Michael Johns, a second year resident in the Central Maine Medical Center Family Residency Program, has begun seeing patients at Swift River Family Medicine and Rumford Hospital.
A Canadian native, Johns did his undergraduate work in finance and economics at Bishop’s University in Quebec and earned his MD degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana in the Dominican Republic.
Johns is in his second year of residency and will spend this year and next in the Rural Track Residency program based at Rumford Hospital.
Bluegrass band to play at Skye
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amREGION -- New England Celtic Arts will present The Spinney Brothers. Performances will be held at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in South Carthage on Wednesday, and at Unity College Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday.
Curtain is at 7 p.m. at Skye and 7:30 p.m. in Unity. There is a pre-show jam session 1hour prior to curtain at Skye and Unity. Audience members are encouraged to bring their instruments and jam with the artists for a few minutes.
Accidental drowning is ruled
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amNORTH SURPLUS TOWNSHIP -- The Maine Medical Examiners Office has released the cause of death of the two swimmers found on the afternoon of July 26 in Lower Richardson Lake by the Maine Warden Service.
According to Edith A. Smith, director of information and education for Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the deceased have been positively identified as Hoang Vo, 26, of Kingston, MA and Phi Ngoc Le, 30, of Wilmington, MA.
Lending a helping hand for Hope
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD- Are you the type of person that wakes up each day and asks yourself how you may be able to help those in need around you? If you answered yes, then you have something in common with Patrick Milligan, a disabled Navy veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
An air-head balloon festival
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Recently, 49 Franklin hosted the Air-Head Balloon Festival.
The event featured the amazing and zany Jer Remian and the incredible and foolish antics of Scot Grassette.
Remian performed his amazing and wacky stunts for families. His specialty is his giant balloon creations. Youngsters marvelled at the giant birds, masks, hats, and zoo animals.
SHARE THE BREAD
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amSHARE THE BREAD -- Jane Rich (second from left) of Andover Food Pantry in Andover, poses with, from left, Catie Scribner, a member of the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger’s Social Responsibility Committee, Rick Small, executive director of Good Shepherd Food Bank, and Jon Paradise of Maine’s Credit Unions after Richs’ organization received a loaf of bread and the “other” kind of bread, a check for $500, from the Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger.
Run, buy, sell; Outdoor Market will have it all
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amDIXFIELD- The Outdoor Market committee is pleased to announce that their plans for the August 21 event have begun and they're looking forward to another successful year.
Ralph and Norine Clarke have led the charge for the past 20-plus years and the history started long before that in the 1950's when the Tributary Arts Council started the tradition.
Hospital auxiliary purchases solarium furniture
Aug 05, 2011 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Furniture items ordered by the Rumford Hospital Auxiliary are now in use in the hospital solarium in the John H. Welsh inpatient wing.
Artwork for patient rooms, also purchased by the Auxiliary, is awaiting hanging.
