Rumford prepares to seek bond for $4.7 million fire station

Town Manager Stacy Carter believes only half the project will require a loan.

Gary Dolloff of Rumford is a Mainer to be thankful for, improving his community one kindness at a time

The Rumford Community Center manager can usually be found helping someone or raising money for a good local cause, like running 2,132 miles this year for veterans.

Photo: Suffering for the sport

Sun Journal and western Maine weeklies earn press awards

The newspaper's staff was awarded a first place in the spots news writing category for its coverage last April of a massive explosion at the Androscoggin Mill in Jay when poorly welded joints on a digester failed, causing an explosion following what was later determined to be a rupture in the equipment’s pressure vessel.

School staffing shortages persist, worsened by rising COVID-19 cases

With few substitute teachers or bus drivers to fill in for absent and quarantined staff, school employees from administrators to custodians are stepping up to help. Sometimes, it's not enough.

Rumford veterans’ posts remember ‘nation’s heroes’

Prisoners of war and those missing in action were not forgotten.

Photo: Women veterans honored in Rumford

Jiujitsu training and ‘situational awareness’ may help protect potential victims

Dawson Walton, a personal trainer and black belt jiujitsu instructor at the Greater Rumford Community Center, says learning personal protection techniques can help prevent physical attacks.

Vaccine rollout for children 5 to 11 underway, nursing home outbreak grows to 70

Ten residents of Rumford Community Home have died thus far as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak that began last month.

Rumford voters opt in on amendments to marijuana ordinance

Voters approved all eight ordinances allowing medical marijuana sales, manufacturing, testing and more.