PERU — Selectmen agreed at Monday night’s meeting to review several property assessments after hearing a resident’s tax complaint. Norman Miley said he paid several hundred dollars more in taxes on his 52 acres than the owner of 52 acres across the road. Board secretary Angela Barkhouse said she has a list of several properties […]
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River Valley Animal Advocates holding yard sale
DIXFIELD — River Valley Animal Advocates is hosting its fifth annual yard sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 15 to 17, at the corner of Weld and North streets. President Becky McDonald said the organization has “received some nice donations this year.” “The Oxford Federal Credit Union from Mexico […]
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Selectmen discuss status of Worthley Spring, dog complaints
PERU — Selectmen discussed the latest test of Worthley Spring’s water at their regular Monday night meeting. The July sample tested positive for coliform bacteria. Selectmen’s Secretary Angela Barkhouse posted a boil-water notice at the spring, where many people regularly get their drinking water. It must have three good tests before the boil-water order can […]
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Dogs kill, injure animals in Peru
PERU — Two German shepherds were quarantined Thursday after they killed a guineafowl, injured two other birds and attacked two goats, Animal Control Officer Sue Milligan said. According to investigators, neighbor John Gallant’s dogs went onto the property of Steve Fuller and Nathalie Anctil on Stage Coach Road, where the attacks took place Thursday morning. […]
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Boothbay man charged with leaving dog in hot car at Mass. concert
MANSFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Maine man is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly leaving his dog in a hot car while he attended an all-day concert in Massachusetts. Police say 60-year-old Edwin Harrington Jr. of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, left the Boston terrier-bulldog mix in his car in the parking lot at the Xfinity Center […]
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Rhinoceros in Georgia zoo finds peace with new donkey friends
TBILISI, Ga. — Animals in the zoo in Georgia’s capital are not allowed to be lonely, even if it means they end up with rather unusual companions. A female rhinoceros called Manuela has made friends with donkeys, after failing to hit it off with either zebras or goats, while a lion cub neglected by his […]
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After nearly three decades, the case of Baby Jane Doe still a mystery
FRENCHVILLE — Although a little over 28 years have passed and retired Maine State Police Maj. Charles Love has long since put away his badge and gun, he can still remember the sights and sounds on that December morning after the child he would know only as Baby Jane Doe was born and subsequently abandoned […]
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Bradbury shines in dog sled race
SAINT-JUST-DE-BRETENIERES, Quebec — International Sled Dog Racing Association (ISDRA) musher Jocelyn Bradbury of Oxford took fifth in the Adult 6 Dog speed class at the Daaquam River International Championship sled race on March 9. She finished the 12-mile course with a total time of 00.36:59. The Daaquam River International was sanctioned by the ISDRA and […]
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Bradbury grabs second
LACONIA, N.H. — ISDRA musher Jocelyn Bradbury of Oxford took second place in the Adult 6 Dog Speed class at the World Championship Sled Dog Derby seld race on Feb. 16. Bradbury finished the 18-mile course with a time of 00:58:26 The event was sanctioned by the International Sled Dog Racing Association and counts toward […]
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Man accused of ‘barking like a dog’ at supervisor may have been victim of discrimination
AUGUSTA — A Skowhegan man who was dismissed after working for Pan Am Railways Inc. for 15 years claims that the company demanded he see a pricey brain specialist but refused to pay, according to a complaint filed with the Maine Human Rights Commission. David Crockett, who worked as a carman for the railway company, […]