RUMFORD, Maine — Local police will be conducting impaired driving patrols through the holidays, thanks to a $9,900 grant to the Rumford Police Department, Chief Stacy Carter said Thursday night.
The Bureau of Highway Safety grant will allow the department to provide extra patrols.
Throughout the year, the department receives grants to fund extra patrols in order to combat impaired driving. But this new grant is different.
“Generally, those grants are for a short period, but this is a year-long grant, so hopefully, we can best utilize it to keep the roads safe for our citizens,” Carter said.
Other departments throughout the state receiving similar grants are as follows:
Androscoggin County Sheriff, $4,900; Auburn, $9,862; Augusta, $10,000; Bath, $8,610; Berwick, $6,800; Biddeford, $8,568; Bridgton, $9,933; Caribou, $9,900; Dixfield, $5,000; Dover-Foxcroft, $10,000; Eliot, $10,000; Ellsworth, $9,964; Farmington, $9,620; Fort Fairfield, $9,897; Gardiner, $9,856; Gorham, $9,863; Houlton, $6,300; Kittery, $7,020; Knox County Sheriff, $9,858; Lewiston, $10,000; Lincoln County Sheriff, $10,000; Lisbon, $5,667; Mexico, $9,120; Millinocket, $4,000; North Berwick, $10,000; Norway, $7,630; Presque Isle, $10,000; Richmond, $9,920; Rockland, $,9,775; Rockport, $3,235; Sabattus, $7,040; Saco, $6,240; Skowhegan, $9,920; Scarborough, $10,000; South Berwick, $4,950; South Portland, $9,900; Topsham, $10,000; Waldo County Sheriff, $5,000; Waterville, $10,000; Wells, $5,000; Westbrook, $10,000; Wilton, $5,000; Winslow, $9,856; York, $6,003; Hancock County Sheriff, $9,599.
In other police news, Carter said he has accepted applications to hire an officer to fill the vacancy left last month when officer Donald Miller resigned.
Although he said applications have been slowly trickling in, a few good applications have arrived in the past few weeks.
He informed selectmen that a second officer has resigned. The chief didn’t name the officer at the time, but the officer in question is Joe Sage, who has returned to the Livermore Falls Police Department.
“So, I’ll be looking to bring two names to you, hopefully at the next meeting,” Carter said.
Selectmen Chairman Greg Buccina asked Carter about Rumford’s parking ban, which went into effect Dec. 1 since there were no measurable snowstorms before that.
“The first three nights, we issued warning cards as we usually do,” Carter said.
“We have started issuing tickets, so hopefully, people will very quickly get the message and stay off the streets. When we do have a storm, it makes it that much easier for the town crew.”
Bangor Daily News writer Ryan McLaughlin contributed to this report.
Hopefully this will get some drunks off the road for a while.
It’s a full time job in the River Valley.
lets see we pay taxes to the town for them to do there work now they need money to do there work .. Bureau of Highway Safety grant were do they get there money from ? So you see this is what you get when you people get when you cut cut cut
The money ,if divided up over the course of a year, will be
approximately $27 a day in increased funding.
Barring a movie crew coming to town and bringing with them
lots of other drunk drivers.
Then the money might go much quicker.
Dont forget to stop the DARK TINTED WINDOW vehicles
If you read faceb–k, the newest fad [which is actually not new] being chatted about is ‘get the windows all tinted up when chugging some brewskies down or smoking weed , if a cop in a cruiser appears out of no where and glances in, the cops see nothing,zip,nutter. Some of the dark tinted window vehicles drivers are giving the middle you-know-what at the cops and they dont even know it.
—now a direct link to faceb–k would be helpful to what is going on, but then the post gets deleted.
Should do it year round!
The police could make money if augusta past a law that says when you go to court for a driving infaction on top of the fine you will also pay court cost that would be another 70 bucks an the police would get 20 bucks per case out of the court cost .