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100 Years Ago: 1921
The judiciary committees in Augusta reported ought to pass on an act to authorize the County of Androscoggin to enlarge and repair the county buildings in Auburn, erect a new building, and to enlarge and construct safety vaults, and an ought not to pass on an act to require women to pay a poll tax.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Miss Mary Beth Kendall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kendall of Stevens Mills Road, Auburn, and Albert Rowbotham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rowbotham of Whitney St., Auburn, reigned as queen and king at the annual Valentine Dance at Webster Junior High School Saturday night. The dance theme was “Love Story.” Mary Beth was crowned by Miss Diana Collins, last year’s queen and was presented a bouquet of flowers. Serving as crown bearer was Linda Philbrook.
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RUMFORD Rumford Elementary School is closed for two weeks because several cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the past two weeks, Principal Jill Bartash advised in a letter Thursday.
“The (Center for Disease Control) believes that these cases are due to community spread, not to contact at school,” she wrote.
The building will be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
Students will use “snow day packets for learning” Friday, Bartash said, and participate in online classes thereafter until the school reopens Feb. 5.
Earlier this month, Regional School Unit 10 closed three of its seven schools for the same reason. Mountain Valley High School in Rumford and Hartford-Sumner Elementary School in Sumner reopened Tuesday. Mountain Valley Middle School in Mexico is scheduled reopen Monday, Superintendent Deb Alden said Thursday.
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RUMFORD Two Regional School Unit 10 schools and a special education program have closed for in-person learning because of COVID-19, Superintendent Deb Alden told directors Monday.
“The cases are not coming from our schools,” Alden said Tuesday. “The problem is we have so many people that have to quarantine.”
The closures were due to staff being quarantined because of close contacts with people who tested positive for the virus.
Alden said she thinks the staff and everyone involved in the district are “taking the precautions” of the pandemics seriously since those who have quarantined “don’t come down with COVID.