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.

Auburn:

Pump station repairs: $50K

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.

Lewiston:

Man hit by car dies of injuries

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.”

Farmington:

SAD 9 OK’s irradiated meat

FARMINGTON – Despite strong protests from several members, the SAD 9 Board of Directors voted 9-3 in November to authorize the district’s hot lunch director to purchase irradiated meat for use in school cafeterias.

Food irradiation is a process used to preserve food and improve its quality through the use of radiant energy to zap bacteria such as E.coli that can cause serious illness or even death.

According to a letter written by Susan Gendron, commission of Maine’s Department of Education, “… Irradiated foods can provide a critical extra layer of food safety for our school children.”

Although the 9-3 vote authorizes hot lunch director Cheryl Ellis to purchase irradiated meat at her discretion, Superintendent Michael Cormier said if the district does decide to serve the irradiated meat, parents and students will be notified first.

Farmington:

School district fined $2,100

FARMINGTON – An early October surprise inspection of SAD 9 by the Bureau of Labor Standards turned up 34 violations, costing the district $2,100 in fines.

Many of those citations have been corrected, SAD 9 facilities director David Gould said, and the district is appealing the fines.

The fines are levied for infractions that impact employee safety, not student safety, Superintendent Michael Cormier explained.

“This isn’t a real serious list,” Gould said.

Collecting the most citations was the district’s bus garage, which was cited eight times for everything from not having a guard on a large air compressor, which netted a $300 fine, to having no program for use of respirators in the spray booth, which cost $750.

Both the Mount Blue Middle School and the aged W.G. Mallett School received six citations each; Foster Tech and Mount Blue High School picked up four each and Academy Hill School collected two citations.

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