Rumford

So, as Patrick has said, my name is Rachel Henderson.

I live in the western part of the state, so my hometown is Rumford.

I represent six communities in my district in western Oxford County.

You know, having grown up mostly in Maine, I spent some time in New Hampshire as a teenager.

You know, so...

When it comes to the needs of my community, yes, we're looking to build, we're looking to expand.

We want to return Rumford to what it once was back in its glory days, you know, when it was a booming metropolis.

But really, I think, you know, especially for the next eight to 10 months, the focus needs to be, you know, how we're going to help our neighbors and our community and ensure people are getting through the winter.

You grew up watching him on the sports reporters.

My first memory of Bob Ryan was the Sunday Boston Globe that we would get in Rumford, Maine on Tuesday.

And Bob knows what I'm talking about.

So do you have any questions for Bob or anything you want to say or?

And he was the first to do that.

the small mill town of Rumford, Maine, perfectly embodies how this used to work.

It has a Carnegie library across the street from Straith Glass Park, which is full of high-end company housing for workers from the local paper mill.

The mill owner, Hugh Chisholm, took so much pride in what he was doing and what he was building that he hired an architect to build the company housing, but not just any architect.

So get this bill.

We serve Rumford in Mexico.

Wow.

Right from Brunswick.

It's really a big state, and it takes a long time to drive across it.

It does.

So we serve Rumford, Mexico, Auburn, Lewiston, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, and now we are newly associated with the Dempsey Center in Westbrook.

Wow! Bill, our van has more requests to provide programming than we can actually do.

He had forty-six.

Uh, a woman named Sue came in with forty-six, and she's from Rumford, Maine, and she has won, uh, two, two seats, two VIP tickets to next, uh, spring's, uh, one of our VIP, uh, appearances at the, uh, at the sh- at the show in, uh, in Boston.

So congratulations, Sue.

I'll s- I'll be seeing you and a guest soon.

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Howie Carr is back.

Again, one more time, the winner of the, uh, the Trump name-dropping contest by Ed Markey was Sue from Rumford, Maine.

She won.

As Patty White reports, it's the latest shakeup since Prime Healthcare took ownership of the health system earlier this year.

Blue Water Health began providing services at Central Maine Health's three hospitals in Lewiston, Bridgeton and Rumford in 2025.

At the time, says Blue Water President Jay Mullen, the emergency departments were short roughly 17 physicians and relied heavily on temporary staff.

But Mullen says in a written statement that Blue Water has rebuilt the workforce and now provides 35 clinicians.