Peru News

A Dixfield firefighter places a traffic cone while chatting on Thursday morning with a Maine Department of Transportation employee who was detouring traffic around a 6:45 a.m. accident in which a tractor-trailer carrying a load of birch lumber flipped over on Route 2 while avoiding a sliding car in his lane.

PERU a ' Selectmen are aiming to develop a municipal budget that will have little or no increase from this year and to keep the tax rate at $16.20 per $1,000 of valuation.

In the current climate of closing schools, cutting programs and trimming jobs in education, we must not forget that we can't sacrifice real-life education in the process.

In 1992, professor John Kenneth Galbraith, a renowned professor of economics at Harvard University with an exemplary public career, academic career and author of many widely read books on economics, wrote the book "The Culture of Contentment." This book depicts the need for a commitment to the human needs and remedies of the economically and ...

DIXFIELD a ' Firefighters from Dixfield, Peru and Mexico responded to a chimney fire at the home of Edward Daley of 12 Daley Road on Monday morning.

PARIS a ' Oxford County Democrats will caucus on Sunday, Jan. 31, throughout the county, joining fellow Democrats as they caucus across the state.

Jose Leiva/Sun Journal Charles Rotmil 77 of Portland held a group of students spell bound during Diversity Day at Dirigo High School on Friday.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's department is advising all drivers to take it slow because of slick roads.

BETHEL a ' At a special town meeting next month, residents will decide if they want to keep the local police department or disband it and switch to coverage through the Oxford County Sheriff's Office.

PARIS a ' Two men pleaded guilty in Oxford County Superior Court on Thursday to charges stemming from unrelated assaults.

DIXFIELD a ' An ambitious wood-turning project to create a small-scale replica of the historic Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Narrow Gauge Railroad Engine No.

PERU a ' School district Superintendent Tom Ward will meet with selectmen from area towns Tuesday to review the carryover funds towns retained when SADs 43, 39 and 21 became one district.

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.