🌱 Mexico driver injured after dump truck plunges off New Sharon roadway

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• Mexico driver injured after dump truck plunges off New Sharon roadway

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Hot with periods of sun, with a high of 92 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Hot with a couple of showers, temps: high: 91, low: 67.
• Saturday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 84 and low of 67 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Maine dump truck crashes into concrete culvert while passing a tractor-trailer (bangordailynews.com) — A Mexico resident was injured Monday morning when his dump truck crashed off Mile Hill Road in New Sharon after passing a tractor-trailer and striking a concrete culvert. First responders freed the 53-year-old driver from the wreckage and took him to a Farmington hospital, while officials noted the crash caused significant damage to the culvert.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Rumford

• Region 9 Adult Ed in Rumford begins new healthcare partnership (sunjournal.com)
• Where labor and delivery stands in Maine (wgme.com)
• Obituary: Keith Elton Pollis (sunjournal.com)

Dixfield

• Obituary: Doris Mary (Thibodeau) Fuller (sunjournal.com)

Wilton

• Annual Chicken Barbeque at Wilton Congo Church for Blueberry Festival (dailybulldog.com)
• RSU 9 leaders angered by state rejection of student homelessness grant (dailybulldog.com)

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