RUMFORD — An Active Community Environment team, made up of a group of volunteers, will meet again at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, in the conference room at the Rumford Town Hall to continue discussing possible locations to construct a recreational bridge over the Swift River.
The process began four years ago, when Carl Constanzi, program coordinator for the Let’s Go! 5-2-1-0 program in Oxford County, received a Community Transformation Grant that created four Active Community Environment Teams for Rumford-Mexico, South Paris, Bethel and Sacopee Valley.
One of the projects the Rumford-Mexico team chose was building a recreational bridge a short distance north of the Hosmer Field complex, the site where a wooden covered bridge was built in 1870 and was wiped out in a windstorm in 1900.
Emery said the team was investigating plots of land that Rumford owns on both sides of the river. The piece on the Rumford side is near the Hosmer Field parking lots.
Send questions/comments to the editors.
