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Sunday Jan 3 | WMTW-TV Auburn

Cuba's Santeria Priests See Unrest In 2010 35min

A panel of Afro-Cuban priests are predicting a year of social and political unrest, struggles for power, treachery and coups d'etat, and they say the world will see the death of an inordinate number of political leaders in 2010.

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Sat Dec 26, 2009

Sun Journal

Committee forming to determine future of former school

PERU a ' Selectmen are looking for three or four residents to serve on a new committee charged with helping to determine the future of the former Peru Elementary School.

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Thu Dec 24, 2009

Sun Journal

Peru firefighter credited with saving neighbor's house from fire

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.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Marines arrive in Bangor on Thanksgiving Day

Rhonda Sperrey of Washburn and her sister Sharon Gates of Peru watch as Gates' son-in-law and Sperrey's nephew Cpl.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

Sun Journal

Carthage woman charged in brutal Mexico assault

MEXICO a ' A South Carthage woman remained behind bars on Saturday, charged with elevated aggravated assault in Friday night's brutal beating of a Mexico woman.

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Fri Oct 30, 2009

Sun Journal

Chip truck driver rear-ends Rumford landscaping trailer, truck

Midwest Price Co. chip truck driver Jamie Murphy, center, of Canton, talks with an unidentified man after the tractor-trailer Murphy was driving slammed into the Michael J. Mills Landscaping trailer at right at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday on Route 2 in Bethel.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

Sun Journal

Family left homeless after Rumford fire

Terry Karkos/Sun Journal Rumford and Mexico firefighters and chiefs watch Rumford firefighter Jeff Harren soak smoking eaves after ripping boards apart to get at a hotspot at Wednesday morning's fire in one of two apartments at 25 Erchles St.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

Sun Journal

Second fire in six months hits vacant Dixfield house

Firefighters from Dixfield, Mexico, Peru and Rumford responded to a structure fire late Friday night in a vacant house at 20 Park Ave.

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

Sun Journal

Congrats Mom:) xo

Pie judges Jason Decker, Mike Melville and Randy Hall savor each piece of seven pies Thursday during the annual pie baking contest at Farmington Fair.

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Sun Sep 13, 2009

Sun Journal

Lithuanian picnic attracts large ethnic crowd

Rumford-area Lithuanian Heritage Club members Julie Koris, left, Christine St. Cyr and Barbara Arsenault, all of Rumford, show off the traditional Lithuanian meal of kielbase, potato-based kugelis, beet salad, rye bread and sauerkraut, which they served at the first annual old-fashioned Lithuanian-style picnic on Saturday at the Mountain View ...

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Wed Sep 09, 2009

Sun Journal

Underage booze party nets 4; Kids text "Mad Cops" warning to alert others

PERU a ' A State Police trooper said Wednesday that he walked into an underage drinking party Sunday night off Old Valley Road, where unwitting booze-toting teens kept arriving, along with a 37-year-old man who brought alcohol and his girlfriend's teenage daughter.

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Sat Sep 05, 2009

Sun Journal

Remembering my beloved

Richard Ellsworth Haines, 73, of Peru died Sept. 1 at Rumford Hospital. He was born in Houlton, June 19, 1936, the son of Verna Haines McGill and received his education in New Brunswick schools.

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Wed Sep 02, 2009

Sun Journal

First day of school opens smoothly

Sixth-graders prepare to board their buses from Mountain Valley Middle School after completing the first day of school for the new year.

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Sun Aug 30, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Skowhegan logger ordered to pay a

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' A Maine logger has been ordered to pay nearly $95,000 in restitution to 10 victims after he is released from prison for timber theft.

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Sun Aug 16, 2009

Sun Journal

Rumford greets Birdie, raises hundreds for heart association

Birdie Googins, aka the Marden's lady, pulls a name out of a straw bag to select the winner of a Marden's gift certificate in the Marden's lady look-alike contest at the retail store in Rumford on Friday.

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Tue Aug 11, 2009

Sun Journal

Future of old school building discussed in Peru

PERU a ' Townspeople will decide the former Peru school building's fate this fall, and there are some questions as to what should happen to it.

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Wed Aug 05, 2009

Sun Journal

Future of old school building discussed in Peru

PERU a ' Townspeople will decide the former Peru school building's fate this fall, and there are some questions as to what should happen to it.

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Mon Aug 03, 2009

Sun Journal

Art meets technology at the River Valley Technology Center

The walls of the River Valley Technology Center are adorned with artwork from the Pennacook Art Group.

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Sat Aug 01, 2009

Village Soup

The Obama Administration and Foreign Policy course offered in Belfast

MIDCOAST : Belfast. University of Maine is offering the course: POS 359 Topics in American Government: The Obama Administration and Foreign Policy at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast.

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Tue Jul 28, 2009

Sun Journal

Citizen challenges selectmen

PERU a ' At a special town meeting Monday, resident Dennis Thibodeau demanded to know why selectmen refused to accept a bid that he had placed on a 24- by 56-foot portable structure located behind the Town Office.

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