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Mountain Valley High School students, from left, Cameron Gallant, Kylee Pelletier, Kierstyn Lyons, Emily Davis and Mackenzie Arsenault, collect debris during a former River Valley Community Clean Up in the Rumford Information Center parking lot.
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RUMFORD The River Valley Community Clean Up is back and organizers are asking for volunteers to go block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood in Rumford and Mexico this month.
The cleanup will be held from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25. The event is organized close to Earth Day, April 22, by an informal group of River Valley residents. The cleanup committee includes Lisa Arsenault, Tom Bourret, Glenn Gordon and Gary Dolloff.
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All five large trees near the Rumford Information Center were removed recently due to safety concerns, according to Town Manager Stacy Carter.
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RUMFORD The area around the Rumford Information Center on Bridge Street looks a lot different now that the town has removed five large trees.
“Trees were dying, limbs were coming down very close to parked vehicles,” Town Manager Stacy Carter said. “One of the trees only had about an inch and a half ring of live growth. Everything else in the middle was dead, so that was going to come down this winter, most likely, with the storms that we’re having.