Area police run Special Olympics Maine Summer Games torch from Rumford to Dixfield
Early Thursday morning, Rumford police Cpl. Douglas Maifeld, center, and Rumford and Mexico police officers and a Mexico Police Explorers Club member ran the Special Olympics Maine torch to Dixfield on Route 2 in Mexico.

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Editorial: This is why we are sports fans
The 1980 U.S. hockey team was not supposed to beat the USSR in the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. But they did. The 1950 U.S. soccer team was never supposed to beat the Three Lions of England in the World Cup. The Red, White and Blue weren’t supposed to tie the English last Saturday, either.

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