Rumford News

Three Rumford women got a nontraditional Mother's Day "gift" when they had their heads shaved to help children being treated for deadly illnesses.

Five candidates for two Board of Selectmen seats spent 70 minutes answering questions and sharing opinions Thursday night about why they want to help run the town for the next three years.

Enough is enough. The following is a list of our local lawmakers that are holding up meaningful welfare reform.

Mountain Valley Middle School Title I literacy specialist, Rose Osborn of Hartford, will retire in June after nearly 40 years of teaching.

Amanda Hamner, playing a woman about to give birth, grabs the shirt of Dawson Walton, playing her husband, and yells at him during a rehearsal for Friday Night Live at 49 Franklin in Rumford on Wednesday night.

Flames engulfed and destroyed this riding lawnmower after a tenant at 1806 Route 2 in Rumford finished mowing the lawn late Saturday afternoon, Rumford fire Deputy Chief Chris Bryant said on scene.

Robyn Pellerin of Byron may very well have had the most unusual piece of art on display at Mountain Valley High School's annual Night of the Arts on Thursday.

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

Envision Rumford will host a presentation Tuesday by Delilah Poupore, executive director of Heart of Biddeford, on the concept of "pop-up" stores and how Rumford can get involved with it.

At the turn of the century, Rumford was a hub for western Maine. The mill, which opened in the late 1890s, attracted workers - citizens and immigrants alike - to the town on the Androscoggin River.

A local man wanted on seven warrants was arrested Thursday on five more charges, including eluding police and being a fugitive from justice, interim police Chief Jerry Hinton said Friday.

Carlisle's in Rumford will be placing cards that highlight the recent statewide downward trends in underage drinking in the lapels of each tuxedo they rent out to students.

There was something for everyone during the first Lumberjack Festival on Saturday.

One of the big attractions for Rumford's Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival Saturday was the dual 600-foot zip lines crossing over the Androscoggin River.

A 15-year-old Rumford boy was charged with criminal mischief Tuesday after a quarter acre of woods was set on fire behind Mountain Valley High School, according to Sgt.

In a narrow decision, lawmakers on the Legislature's Judiciary Committee sided with Maine Attorney General Janet Mills on the issue of the how police here can employ unmanned aerial vehicles in criminal investigations.

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.

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.

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.

There will adult and young-adult Tall Tales Contest at the Friday Kaleidoscope event held in the Mystic Theater at 49 Franklin.