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Girls wrestling: 2025 Varsity Maine All-State team

by Dave Dyer March 26, 2025March 26, 2025

Our first-ever girls All-State squad contains multiple New England champions from the top programs throughout the state.

Local & State, News

Historic home razed in wind-swept fire in Rumford

by Bruce Farrin March 23, 2025March 25, 2025

Winds reportedly gusting to 40 mph carried embers that started a second fire at 33 Franklin St., the site of the Waldo Pettingill House, built in 1891. Pettingill was the first president of Oxford Paper Co.

Local & State, News

Rumford students sent to hospital after truck strikes bus in Farmington

by Donna M. Perry March 13, 2025March 14, 2025

Four were taken to a Farmington hospital with suspected minor injuries after a bus and truck collided at a ‘very low speed,’ police said.

Local & State, News, Politics

Republicans in Maine Senate balk at budget compromise

by Randy Billings and Rachel Ohm March 11, 2025March 11, 2025

A compromise proposal for funding a MaineCare shortfall failed to get the two-thirds support needed to pass it as emergency legislation Tuesday night in the Senate, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board.

Local & State, News

Tests show no dangerous contamination from Rumford paper mill discharge, senator says

by Bruce Farrin March 10, 2025March 11, 2025

Sen. Joseph Martin collected samples after ND Paper’s inadvertent discharge of black liquor into the air Dec. 10, 2024, and sent them to the Department of Environmental Protection for testing.

Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Maine colleges, Sports, Varsity Maine

Maine Basketball Hall of Fame announces 2025 inductees

by Staff Report February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

Eighteen individuals will be honored in August, along with the 1976 Rumford High boys team.

Times Record

Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association serves fish tots to local tots

by Laura Sitterly February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

Feeding the future generation, Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association has taken to lunch lines, serving up sustainably harvested local seafood. On Feb. 11, the group crafted a fish tot suitable for tiny hands, which was well received by Kate Furbish Elementary School students.