Rumford News

Cecil E. Jay passed away on Oct. 24, 2009, in Wilmington, N.C. He was 88. He was born in Rumford, Maine on Dec.

Matthew Kearns, vice president of business development for First Wind, a Boston-based wind power company, shares information with Rumford selectmen at Thursday night's board meeting.

DIXFIELD a ' The Dixfield Police Department received two Tasers last week with a little something extra attached to one of them a ' a mini audio and visual camera to record actions whenever the tool is used.

This is in response to Bryan Dench's column against school district consolidation.

MEXICO a ' A South Carthage woman remained behind bars on Saturday, charged with elevated aggravated assault in Friday night's brutal beating of a Mexico woman.

MEXICO a ' A woman was flown to a Lewiston hospital Friday night after being struck in the head with a metal pipe, and police were investigating and unavailable to give details.

Midwest Price Co. chip truck driver Jamie Murphy, center, of Canton, talks with an unidentified man after the tractor-trailer Murphy was driving slammed into the Michael J. Mills Landscaping trailer at right at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday on Route 2 in Bethel.

Terry Karkos/Sun Journal Rumford and Mexico firefighters and chiefs watch Rumford firefighter Jeff Harren soak smoking eaves after ripping boards apart to get at a hotspot at Wednesday morning's fire in one of two apartments at 25 Erchles St.

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Missoula on October 21, 2009, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, ANTHONY SCOTT RICHARDS, a 34-year-old resident of Rumford, Maine, pled guilty to distribution of child pornography.

Emery Deabay, secretary of the United Steelworkers of Maine Local 1188, said he was worried when he heard Congress was looking into clean energy and climate change legislation.

Dylan Voorhees, clean energy and global warming project director with the National Resources Council of Maine, speaks Friday during a forum on wind power in Paris.

For Tom Prendergast, skateboarding in school only led to trouble. Now he is being graded on his form.

PORTLAND a ' One of three defendants charged with burglarizing a Mexico gun shop on Jan.

This is in response to an article in the Sun Journal on Oct. 7. I was appalled to find such a small article, reporting that a Maine soldier, Sgt.

NORTHPORT a ' The Sun Journal daily and Sunday newspapers were named the best in the state at the Maine Press Association's annual conference Saturday night.

RUMFORD a ' An Andover man remained behind bars early Thursday evening in Paris and a Jay man was free on bail after police accused both of participating in a home invasion in Rumford that sent one tenant to the hospital.

Babe the Blue Ox passes the Paul Bunyan replica as the 6-foot-tall, 10-foot-long fiberglass bovine arrives in downtown Rumford on Thursday afternoon.

RUMFORD a ' Several representatives from First Wind LLC plan to attend a public forum on a proposed wind farm for three Rumford mountains.

Americans have a great propensity for philanthropy, but we're not the only ones capable of charitable giving.

The east peak of Borestone Mountain is outlined in the foliage of its shadow near Lake Onawa in Elliotsville Township in 2008.