Rumford News

Maine's chief justice said Thursday that she is hopeful the judicial branch can find ways to weather the next round of deep budget cuts without closing courthouses in rural areas of the state.

The New England Seismic Network says a small earthquake shook parts of western Maine early Thursday morning.

RUMFORD a ' The reaccreditation process for Mountain Valley High School kicked off this month when the school's team was formed, and a representative from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges visited the school.

WAYNE a ' Richard Plante was an educator in every sense of the word. For most of his life, he taught kids from elementary age to junior high, earning the title of Teacher of the Year along the way.

Veterans Harvey Manson, Chummy Broomhall and Felix Ricci salute during the singing of the national anthem at theA Veterans Day ceremony at Mountain Valley High School on Wednesday.

RUMFORD a ' Despite a lack of proposed commercial wind power development projects in town, backers calling for a 180-day moratorium on such projects still believe the action is warranted.

Two groups came to the State House on Monday to ask the state to slow down wind power development, which they say is gobbling up environmentally sensitive mountain ridges for questionable results.

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.