Dixfield News

CANTON a ' Becky McDonald describes herself as the little girl who was always bringing stray cats and dog home.

DIXFIELD a ' Everyone was back to work Monday morning at Irving Forest Products after a fire damaged a portion of the specialty mill a week before Christmas.

Maine's highest court has upheld a ruling that a 1999 sex offender law can not be applied retro-actively. In its ruling, the Maine Supreme Court gave the legislature until March 31st to revise the law.

PERU a ' Quick thinking by Peru fire Capt. Jeff Wade saved his next-door neighbor's Main Street house from going up in flames late Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.

Maine's highest court has upheld a lower court ruling that a 1999 law requiring certain sex offenders to be placed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry for life cannot be applied retroactively.

Maine's highest court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that a 1999 law requiring certain sex offenders to be placed on a sex offender registry for life cannot be applied retroactively.

To the most caring people of Dixfield and surrounding areas a ' thank you so much for all the generous donations made when a call for help went out from my sister, Vickie Carrier, and the other ladies from the Town Office to send Christmas joy to my son Scott Brown's unit currently serving in Afghanistan.

EAST DIXFIELD a ' A purse and gun were reported stolen from a vehicle on Gordon Road on Saturday morning, said Wilton Police Chief Dennis Brown.

Maine state police said a fatal car crash in Livermore was caused by snowy weather conditions.

LIVERMORE a ' An East Dixfield man died Sunday from injuries he received when the van he was a passenger in slid in the snow on Route 4 and collided with another vehicle Saturday night, State Police Lt.

Dixfield town employees, led by Leo Jolin,A haul boxes of donated toiletries, food, phone cards and other items to the Dixfield Post Office on Friday morning to ship to the Army's 82nd Infantry Division serving in Afghanistan.

A Good Shepherd Food-Bank volunteer works at the bank's Auburn warehouse in 2008.

BUCKFIELD a ' Buckfield Junior-Senior High School is midway through its reaccreditation process, and has submitted its response to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

WEST PARIS a ' The investigation into the cause of a crash that killed a Naples man Monday night on Route 26 continued Tuesday, with drug and alcohol tests done on two surviving drivers, Maine State Police Lt.

Firefighters work at the scene of Monday evening's fatal crash on Route 26 in West Paris.

A small earthquake rocked western Maine Thursday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site, the 2.5 magnitude quake occurred at 2 a.m. People living in the towns of Mexico, Rumford and Dixfield felt the earth move.

Forestry education technician Ben Welch, right, discusses various species of tree samples with Roger and Brenda LaCroix and their son, Josh, of Greenwood at Tuesday night's annual Region 9 open house.

DIXFIELD a ' Selectmen heard a presentation from Todd Presson and Tom Carroll on a proposed wind farm project at a special meeting Monday night that could add as much as $40 million to the value of the town.

Passing bag after bag of food items they had collected, about 200 students at Academy Hill School in Wilton lined Main Street Friday from the neighboring Cushing School driveway to the Wilton Area Food Pantry located at the United Methodist Church.

RUMFORD a ' Despite a lack of proposed commercial wind power development projects in town, backers calling for a 180-day moratorium on such projects still believe the action is warranted.