RUMFORD – A Jay woman was charged last week with felony theft from a motor vehicle following an investigation into a Cumberland Street incident.

Sherri L. Turner, 39, was summoned for burglary of a motor vehicle, Sgt. George Cayer said.

Turner “is the ex-girlfriend of the victim” and allegedly took compact discs and other items from a vehicle parked on Cumberland Street, Cayer added.

The items were recovered and returned to their owner.

Auburn family flees house fire

AUBURN – A Wood Street family fled their home last week when fire flared up on the second floor, sending smoke pouring from the eaves of the house.

Firefighters made quick work of the blaze at 10 Wood St., but part of the building sustained fire, smoke and water damage.

The couple and a grandchild who live in the house escaped without injury. Wood Street runs between Summer and Winter streets, near Union Street bypass.

The first police officer to reach the scene Tuesday reported seeing flames in a second floor window.

Thick smoke rolled from the eaves.

Firefighters smashed out windows and attacked the flames with jets of water. Crews manning firetrucks surrounded the house, on Wood, Summer and Parker streets.

Veterinary hospital opens again

FRYEBURG – Veterinarian Scott Johnson can’t say enough good things about the way the community has helped out since fire consumed the Fryeburg Veterinary Hospital April 25.

Because of the help, the hospital was able to relocate to a new space and was back up and running eight days after the fire.

Two days after the fire, a client who is a real estate agent found a vacant building for the veterinary hospital to rent at 85 Portland St. in town, and other clients have “really gone above and beyond,” bringing blankets, donating shelving, painting and cleaning the new temporary space.

It hasn’t just been clients of the vet hospital, either.

“So many people in the community have helped us, even people from other towns, to get back on our feet,” Johnson said.

Board gives Rec Department a year

OXFORD – Selectmen on Thursday agreed to give the Oxford Recreation Department a year to show how the former fire station on King Street can be used to expand recreational opportunities in town.

Selectmen told the department to use the building this year for storage and possibly as a meeting space, and bring plans for an expanded recreation department to next year’s town meeting.

The meeting space, which would include the bathroom and kitchen, could be used by the Oxford Baseball and Softball Association, Scouts, 4-H and senior citizen groups, by using a third of the building and making slight alterations, recreation committee members said.


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