RSU 56 backs $12.79M budget for fourth round of voting

The RSU 56 board of directors is proposing a $12.79 million budget as their fourth school budget proposal of this year. The budget is an increase of 4.1% over current spending.  

Demolition of former Peru schoolhouse begins with asbestos removal

Voters approved using $85,000 from surplus to complete the job.

RSU 56 prepares for 3rd budget vote

An informational meeting and vote is set for Sept. 10; the validation referendum is at town polling stations Sept. 17.

Peru voters asked to pay for equipment repairs

A total of $24,500 from surplus is requested to fix a backhoe and a plow truck.

This week’s agenda

Peru to ask a third time for a new truck

Road Commissioner Brad Hutchings said the 22-year-old dump truck is sidelined because it was losing a gallon of oil an hour at the end of the winter.

Peru votes against highway equipment a second time

Six other warrant articles that also failed to pass in June were approved Tuesday.

Photo: Family visits fairy houses in Peru

The one-eighth-mile wooded pathway has about 100 fairy houses free for public viewing from dawn to dusk starting Memorial Day to just after Labor Day.

Worthley Pond Association creates Watershed Protection Plan, sets summer events

The Watershed Protection Plan that includes annual milestones aimed at addressing road and landscaping issues identified in a watershed survey.

Peru officials retool defeated budget items for second try

Since the June 11 referendum, Peru now has an additional $212,000 in its surplus.