RUMFORD — Selectmen voted 5-0 Thursday to push the due date for taxes from Oct. 1 to Nov. 3, after learning the tax rate likely won’t be set until after Sept. 17. Voters must approve the change at a special town meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22. Town Manager John Madigan told the board […]
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New Rumford tax rate not expected until after Labor Day
RUMFORD — The 2014-15 tax rate isn’t expected to be set until sometime after Labor Day because the assessors are still gathering information. They’re looking for normal valuations from Rumford paper mill NewPage Corp. and Brookfield Power, which operates the Pennacook Falls Dam on the Androscoggin River. “This is nothing out of the ordinary,” Linnell […]
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Rumford assessors grant partial tax abatement to NewPage paper mill
RUMFORD — NewPage Corp.’s bid to pay $1.5 million less in taxes than it did in fiscal year 2013-14 for its Rumford Paper Co. mill fell short by $1.2 million Thursday afternoon. Following an executive session, the Rumford Board of Assessors voted 3-0 to grant an abatement of $223,000, based on the recommendation of its […]
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Rumford paper mill recalling 41 laid-off workers for No. 12 paper machine
RUMFORD — Forty-one hourly NewPage Corp. employees who were laid off in February are being recalled to operate the No. 12 paper machine, Tony Lyons, NewPage spokesman, said late Wednesday afternoon. The No. 12 paper machine manufactures coated paper used in catalogs and magazines. “This is good news,” Lyons said. In November 2013, the Rumford […]
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Rumford paper mill seeks $1.5 million abatement from last year’s taxes
RUMFORD — The Rumford Board of Assessors will meet with NewPage Corp. officials Thursday to consider the paper mill’s tax abatement request of $1.5 million. That’s on top of the reduction by a little more than $1.1 million in taxes last year, Linnell Geronda, assessors’ agent, said Wednesday morning. Geronda said the mill doesn’t usually […]
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MDOT reveals plans to rehab Upper Canal Bridge in Rumford
RUMFORD — Business owners, town and paper mill officials provided information Wednesday night to state transportation engineers about the planned rehabilitation of Upper Canal Bridge. The 260-foot-long span carries Route 108 traffic over Mill Canal, through which the Androscoggin River flows beside the downtown area. It is a three-span bridge with 80-foot-long end sections and […]
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Rumford town manager ‘disappointed’ with mill’s machine shutdown after tax reduction
RUMFORD — Town Manager Carlo Puiia said Tuesday that he is disappointed that NewPage Corp. will shut down its No. 12 paper machine indefinitely by mid-February. Ron Hemingway, president of the Local 900 United Steelworkers, told the Sun Journal that “around 120 people” may be affected by that shutdown. “Well, the mill’s been very forward […]