RUMFORD – A young Hanover man was charged with stealing a pickup truck from a Route 108 residence early Wednesday morning.

Travis Cyr, 18, was charged with unauthorized use of property, operating under the influence, criminal mischief and operating without a license. He was released on $700 unsecured bail.

The hunt for Cyr and the stolen 1993 Chevrolet pickup truck began at 2:11 a.m. when Neal Giberson of Route 108 reported that someone had just stolen his vehicle from his dooryard.

As officers were searching for the truck, a Rumford Center caller reported that a suspicious person was asking to use a telephone, Sgt. Stacy Carter said.

While responding to that complaint, officer Eric DeWitt found the truck and Cyr at the second caller’s Route 2 location, Carter added.

Lewiston:

Man hit by car dies of injuries

LEWISTON – A man struck by a car while walking on Russell Street earlier in November died at Central Maine Medical Center.

Daniel Michaud, 54, died of head and other injuries 10 days after he was struck while walking to a friend’s house from his Main Street home.

Michaud was struck in front of the 44 Russell St. home of Raymond Audet, the friend Michaud had been going to visit at the time of the wreck.

“He was coming to see me, and I was waiting for him,” Audet said Wednesday. “We were going to go to Burger King together.”

Auburn:

Pump station repairs: $50K

AUBURN – Sewer District trustees were informed Tuesday that costs associated with the failure of the Little Andy Pump Station earlier this month are likely to cost about $50,000.

A temporary bypass system was used while the 27-year-old station near the Little Androscoggin River was out of service for about a week for repairs.

A nearly foot-wide, T-shaped check valve at the discharge side of one of the three pumps in the station leaked, causing the station to flood. As a result, all of the electrical equipment inside the station failed. Vacuum trucks were used to extract water. District employees and an electrical contractor used a crane to extract the pumps. They were dried in large “ovens,” according to district engineer John Storer.

New Gloucester:
SAD 15 school finance director fired

NEW GLOUCESTER – SAD 15 directors fired the district’s director of finance and operations following a short executive meeting with their attorney.

By 10-0 vote, the board terminated Brian McDonnell’s employment, effective immediately.

Superintendent Victoria Burns was directed to issue a certificate of dismissal to McDonnell, attaching a copy of the board’s written findings and conclusions.

McDonnell was placed on paid leave by Burns on Sept. 25.

Lewiston:
Progress made on projects

LEWISTON – Five condominiums arrived on Maple Street. Down the road, work continued on new townhouse apartments, outer shells complete. Closer to Kennedy Park, interior rehab work above Speaker’s Variety was nearly finished.

Downtown housing projects are coming right along.

Excavation began in June along Maple and Knox streets to make way for 16 new apartments, built by Community Concepts. Units are at various stages, said Wayne Petersen of the P.M. MacKAY Group, the general contractor.

The porch columns are up, the windows in. Buildings on the right side of the road, looking up the hill, have three-bedroom townhouses. On the left side, there’s a mix of three and four bedrooms. A one-story building along Knox Street has two handicap-accessible units and a community laundry room.

The first building will be done by the first of the year, Petersen said.

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