CANTON — People visiting the Town Office next month will find it in a bigger and more structurally sound building. Selectmen decided Thursday night to close the Town Office at 9 Staples Hill Road and move its contents into the new building beside the fire station on Route 108/Turner Street on April 9. Administrator Scotty […]
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Dryer fire guts Route 108 house in Peru
PERU — A malfunctioning clothes dryer started a fire Tuesday morning that gutted a single-story cottage beside Route 108 just south of Greenwoods Road, Peru fire Chief Bill Hussey said. There were no injuries. He said the fire began sometime after Wanda Holmquist left for work after drying or warming some clothing in the laundry […]
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Police: Sleeping Lisbon man’s truck plows into Peru cemetery
PERU — Police said a Lisbon man escaped injury when he fell asleep and his truck struck gravestones and a monument in Demeritt Cemetery beside Route 108 on Friday. Ronald Roy, 68, told police he fell asleep, Oxford County Deputy Sheriff William Nelson said on scene. The accident happened shortly before 4 p.m. Med-Care Ambulance […]
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Multiple MDOT paving projects start next month in Rumford
RUMFORD — Starting on Monday, heavy equipment and signs will be moved into Rumford for multiple paving projects that begin next month. Pike Industries of Fairfield was awarded the $2.8 million Maine Department of Transportation project, according to a MDOT news release on Friday. All work includes pavement milling and resurfacing, along with drainage and […]
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Three injured, one seriously, in Rumford collision
RUMFORD — A Winthrop motorcyclist was flown to a Lewiston hospital Wednesday with injuries from a collision with a Western Maine Driving Academy car on Route 108, officials said. Two people in the car were injured and taken to Rumford Hospital. Theodore Bryant, 83, who wasn’t wearing a helmet, suffered a head injury from striking […]
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Peru traffic stop nets police two Rumford men on felony drug charges
PERU — Two Rumford men pleaded not guilty to felony drug trafficking charges at arraignments on Friday afternoon in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris. They were arrested by state police early Thursday evening following a traffic stop on Route 108 and taken to Oxford County Jail in Paris after failing to post $5,000 cash […]
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USW Local 900 to hold second annual Workers Memorial Day April 27 in Rumford
RUMFORD — United Steel Workers Local 900 has invited the public to attend and observe Workers’ Memorial Day, Sunday, April 27. It will be held from 11 a.m. to noon at the Local 900 Union Hall on Route 108 in Rumford’s Smith Crossing neighborhood. “There will be a short service to remember all workers everywhere […]