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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.
Don't sacrifice the lessons in real life
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 ...
Oxford County caucus times, locations
PARIS a ' Oxford County Democrats will caucus on Sunday, Jan. 31, throughout the county, joining fellow Democrats as they caucus across the state.
Students learn about many forms of diversity
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.
Icy roads making for dangerous driving
The Cumberland County Sheriff's department is advising all drivers to take it slow because of slick roads.
Police coverage depends on special town meeting vote
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.
Wood-turning train engine project steaming ahead
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.
Western Foothills district to begin budget development
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chip truck driver rear-ends Rumford landscaping trailer, truck