Dixfield News

After a presentation and discussion about sharing or combining services, selectmen are discussing the scope of a study for this area.

Linda Pagels-Wentworth was appointed to the town manager's position during Monday night's selectmen's meeting, along with her new duties as the road commissioner, tax collector, town clerk and treasurer.

Dixfield residents Doug Duguay, left, Dan Richard, right, and a friend who asked to remain unnamed set up a table covered with motorcycle parts inside the American Legion on Saturday afternoon as part of the Dixfield League of Riders first annual motorcycle swap meet.

CAUSED BY HUMAN? - Ranger Kent Nelson from Maine Forest Service Tuesday said the cause of a fire that burned 10 acres of woods in Woodstock last week was likely caused by a human.

A Main Street resident was assaulted Thursday night by several young males after he asked them to quiet down, according to Lt.

June Giambattista knew when she was a child and playing school with her six siblings that she wanted to be a teacher.

The Dixfield League of Riders will hold its first Motorcycle Swap Meet from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May 11 at the American Legion hall.

Karley Poulin, left, and Julia Sirois, both of Rumford, react as they near the end of a 700-foot zip line ride above the Androscoggin River on Saturday during Envision Rumford's debut Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford.

An improperly discarded cigarette burned a deck at a Route 2 house and half an acre of woods and brush early Saturday afternoon, Deputy fire Chief Richard Coulombe said.

The cause of a fire that burned across 10 acres in Woodstock this week is still unknown, but the Maine Forest Service believes a "human element" may have been involved and is looking for information from anyone who saw people in the area Wednesday.

Next Monday, the RSU 10 board is expected to act on recommended cuts that would bring the 2013-14 budget to $36 million.

A headline event for the Saturday's Envision Rumford's Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival is dual 600-foot-long zip lines to carry people from near the Rite Aid street-side parking area over the Androscoggin River to a landing near the town's snow dump.

Maine's education commissioner is visiting schools in western Maine as part of his cross-state tour to observe innovative school practices.

As many as 60 firefighters from a dozen towns and three Maine Fire Service helicopters battled a 10-acre fire on a mountainside off Perkins Valley Road on Wednesday afternoon for about four hours.

After a six-month search, the Board of Selectmen announced Wednesday that it has signed a contract with Baileyville Town Manager Linda Pagels-Wentworth to become the new town manager.

The owner of a home that was damaged by fire Sunday on Spring Street said that his insurance adjuster told him the two-story structure would have to be gutted.

East Dixfield firefighter Brett Osgood soaks brush and grass that caught fire Friday afternoon behind a home at 19 Holman Road.

On Wednesday afternoon, United Steelworkers Local 900 members and officers gathered at the union hall off Route 108 in Rumford to discuss how to mount a memorial plaque on this nearly 1-ton dryer gear donated by NewPage Inc.

The RSU 10 board Monday learned of a new superintendent search, accepted the resignation of a longtime guidance counselor and listed the graduation dates for three high schools.