Peru News

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.