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This week’s agenda

Tuesday Newry: Selectmen, 7 a.m., Town Office Wednesday Bethel: Board of Assessors, 8 a.m., Town Office Mexico: Mexico Water District Board of Trustees, 4 p.m., Town Hall Mexico: Region 9 School of Applied Technology, 6:30 p.m., River Road school Newry: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Office Peru: Planning Board, 5 p.m., Town Office Thursday Andover: […]

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Today’s agenda

Franklin NEW VINEYARD: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Oxford Hills HARTFORD: Food pantry, 4 p.m., Town Hall HARTFORD: Planning Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall River Valley PERU: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office

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Well done: Students honored for achievements

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Kristen Lavallee of Lisbon has enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the nation’s first and largest technological college for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. She is a graduate of Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., and the daughter of Nancy and Jim Lavallee of […]

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Peru selectmen want accounting from Recreation Committee

PERU — Selectmen voted Monday night to send a letter to Recreation Committee member Timothy Holland about Recreation Department funds. Board of Selectmen Chairman Jim Pulsifer said Wednesday morning that the board has received complaints about how Holland handled the funds. “So we’ve asked for Tim to account for the funds,” Pulsifer said. “Some funds […]

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This week’s agenda

Tuesday Mexico: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Board of Appeals, 6 p.m., Town Office Rumford: River Valley Health Communities Coalition, noon, Rumford Public Library

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Korean War veterans reunite in Peru

PERU — During a harrowing firefight atop a mountain in North Korea 62 years ago, two Maine buddies saw each other for the last time. Or so they thought. Glen Tompkins of Peru was a radio operator with the Army’s 7th Infantry Division and Donn Chadbourne of Wells was an Army medic with the 2nd […]

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Peru checking recreation committee records

PERU — Board of Selectmen Chairman Jim Pulsifer said officials will review town records and talk with former Recreation Committee members to be sure recreation money was used properly. The topic was raised at Monday night’s board meeting due to ongoing concerns by selectmen and Peruvians for Honest Government. In the past, the committee raised […]

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Two Peru men charged with trafficking drugs

PERU — State police arrested two local men Thursday afternoon on felony drug trafficking charges. Trooper Jason Wing charged Corey Noel Beale, 33, of 100 Pleasant St. and Dwight F. Millett, 26, of 71 Pleasant St. with unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. They were taken to Oxford County Jail in Paris. Both men were freed […]

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Selectmen to accept applications for board opening

PERU — Longtime Selectman Laurieann Milligan has resigned, according to a letter read by Chairman Jim Pulsifer at Monday night’s board meeting. Her term expires in 2015 and an election to replace her will be held in February. Milligan was the only member of the board to survive a recall election in 2012. The recall […]