Looking Back on May 12
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100 Years Ago: 1921
E.L. Smith, cashier of the Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn, recently received a May basket in the form of a box of chocolates and a bouquet of carnations from the clerks at the bank. The whole company was invited into the home and spent a most enjoyable evening.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Miss Tizz Crowley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Crowley of 143 Pleasant St. Auburn, has been named to the Eagles Honor Society at the University of Maine at Portland. Tizz is a member of the freshman class and is a political science major. She also is a freshman class senator and was social editor of the Viking. A graduate of Edward Little High School in the class of 1970, Tizz took a prominent part in school activities. She served as president of both the American Field Service Chapter and the Junior Classical League, was editor of Station ELHS, served as historian for the senior banquet and was a member of the Pep, Dramatic, Biology and Interna
Rumford area school district budget approved by directors
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Statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control on Monday showed Androscoggin County had a rate of 645 cases per 10,000 residents. Oxford’s rate is third among the counties with 547 cases per 10,000. Franklin County’s rate is 400 cases per 10,000.
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The state average is 448.3 cases per 10,000.
In Oxford County, Maine CDC outbreak investigations are ongoing at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School, N.D. Paper mill in Rumford, Guy Rowe School in Norway, Rumford Elementary School, Sacopee Valley Elementary School and Sacopee Valley Middle School, both in Hiram, Norway Health and Rehabilitation Center and Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris.
In Androscoggin County, outbreak investigations are ongoing at many schools, three nursing homes, a business and a church. The list includes Auburn Middle School, Bruce Whittier Middle School in Poland, Clover Health Care in Auburn, D’Youville Pavillion in Lewiston, Durham Community School, Edward Little High School an
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State investigates rising COVID-19 outbreaks in Oxford County schools, businesses
The rate of cases is rising in Oxford and Androscoggin counties at schools, workplaces and gathering spots.
By Bonnie WashukSpecial to the Sun Journal
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Patrick Boland of FEMA holds open the tent flap to the mobile vaccination unit at Oxford Casino where Cynthia Venoit set up to five shots April 12.
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Statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control on Monday showed Androscoggin County had a rate of 645 cases per 10,000 residents. Oxford’s rate is third among the counties with 547 cases per 10,000. Franklin County’s rate is 400 cases per 10,000.
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The Regional School Unit 10 board of directors meet Monday at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford and online via Zoom.
Marianne Hutchinson/Rumford Falls Times
RUMFORD The Regional School Unit 10 board of directors will vote on the 2021-22 budget April 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School.
The $29.94 million spending plan was reviewed by directors Monday. It compares to $29.44 million for this fiscal year, which ends June 30. It represents an average decrease of 2.51% for the district towns of Buckfield, Hanover, Hartford, Mexico, Roxbury, Rumford and Sumner.
Superintendent Deb Alden said the district’s health insurance costs increased 3.9%, much less than the 10% increase budgeted.
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