Peru: Veterans database

PERU – Len Greaney recently told selectmen about his project to honor local veterans. In 2002 Greaney realized local towns didn’t have a proper list of buried veterans. He has spent the last four years reviewing history books, military books and walked through each River Valley cemetery to record names of veterans who served in one or more of the following: Revolutionary War, War 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict and Vietnam War. He came up with 9,000 names of living and deceased veterans.

His database now shows where the deceased are buried and the section and row where they can be found. He has secured funding for a first-in-the-nation regional war memorial for those veterans who never came home and are buried in distant places. The database is available in local libraries and on the Internet. Donations to the project are being accepted.

– Mary Standard
Buckfield: Water rates set

BUCKFIELD – Town Manager Glen Holmes said the Buckfield Village Corp. has sent customers announcement of new water rates that show the average cost for a household will be $585.36 per year, or $146.34 per quarter.

A committee is meeting every first and third Thursday until the end of the year and will submit its findings on the debt situation to selectmen in January.

Holmes, who is also code enforcement officer, said 25 building permits have been issued so far this year, nine of them for private dwellings. He said this is on par with 2005 permits.

– Mary Standard
Sumner: Growth plan

SUMNER – Mary Ann Haxton of the Comprehensive Plan committee announced Thursday night that the State Planning Office has accepted the town’s document for public comments. The public has until Nov. 25 to respond. The plan is available in the Town Office and on the Sumner Web page www.sumnermaine.us.

Town Registrar Susan Runes said if anyone needs an absentee ballot they may phone the town office at 388-2866.

Also Runes said if residents will send their e-mail address to the office at [email protected], notices, newsletters and any other pertinent information can be e-mailed to them and save the town money.

– Mary Standard
Hartford: Ballot clerks appointed

HARTFORD – Selectmen appointed Tanya Johnson and Susan Funtsch as ballot clerks for the upcoming election.

Approved building permits were reviewed by the board for the following people: Craig and Nicole Millett for a 28- by 26-foot modular cape home on Bear Pond road: Mark and Susan Hurd for an 8- by 34-foot porch addition to their camp on Nezinscot Mesa off Labrador Pond road; and Kenneth Charity for an 8- by 24-foot addition to the back of a house on Sumner Road.

– Mary Standard