Maine State Police Trooper Jason Wing, left center, and Trooper Tim Turner of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division examine the underside of a 22-wheel tractor-trailer that flipped on its side late Friday morning on Route 120 in Roxbury.

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

MEXICO a ' The following incidents were handled recently by the Mexico Police Department.

Inside Mountain Valley High School's Muskie Auditorium in Rumford, Roxbury resident Colleen Martineau testifies at Tuesday night's Public Utilities Commission hearing about Central Maine Power's proposal to build an 8-mile-long powerline upgrade and corridor expansion between Roxbury and Rumford.

RUMFORD a ' The Maine Public Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing Tuesday on Central Maine Power's proposal to build a 115-kilovolt transmission line.

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.

RUMFORD a ' Former town parks and recreation superintendent Timothy J. Gallant was arrested Friday morning and accused of selling a piece of town equipment in 2007 and pocketing the $1,500 proceeds.

As Maine preps for wind power, medical staff at Rumford Hospital say turbines may make people sick.

ROXBURY a ' The Maine Board of Environmental Protection on Thursday will consider a petition from Concerned Citizens to Save Roxbury and other appellants who want to halt development of a $120 million wind farm atop Roxbury peaks.

Residents at Tuesday night's Roxbury Board of Selectmen meeting learned that town officials will soon replace the worn planks on this bridge over the outlet of Roxbury Pond.

DIXFIELD a ' Selectmen on Monday unanimously authorized Town Manager Eugene Skibitsky to sign a letter of agreement with a consulting firm that would provide information on tax incentive financing for wind farm development.

ROXBURY a ' Owners of a wind-power company set to erect 22 turbines on local hills have decided to delay the project by a year because the energy market has fallen in the recession.A A Record Hill Wind LLC is building a $120 million wind farm along the 4-mile ridgeline that connects Partridge Peak, Record Hill and Flathead Mountain.

Two groups came to the State House on Monday to ask the state to slow down wind power development, which they say is gobbling up environmentally sensitive mountain ridges for questionable results.

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.

RUMFORD, Maine a ' A wind-power company says a western Maine site it's been looking at is too windy for turbines.

Steve Thurston, a summer resident of Roxbury, decribes what he believes would be the noise impact of a wind farm on a ridge in Dixfield and Canton at a forum in Dixfield on Friday night.

HIGHLAND PLANTATION a ' A $250 million project to erect 48 wind turbines on four peaks in Somerset County was outlined at a meeting of about 30 people Thursday night.

At Tuesday night's nearly two-hour informational meeting, about 70 people learned that blasting begins Wednesday morning on Record Hill Wind LLC 's $120 million, 22-turbine wind farm project.

" With dozens of wind turbines proposed in a half-dozen towns in various stages of planning, the Wind Farm Development Committee of Rumford is planning a panel discussion on the pros and cons of such development.

"You begin to feel like you're being used," a long-time Maine Audubon supporter and state legislator told me about the wind power movement in Maine.