PERU – Dozens of frustrated residents, including two selectmen, walked out of Monday night’s public hearing on recalling all five selectmen. Before the hearing began at Dirigo Elementary School, Town Clerk Vera Parent announced she invited Terry Hayes, a state legislator from Buckfield, to be an independent moderator. Hayes began by setting some ground rules. […]

PERU — On Monday night, citizens will gather for a public hearing to discuss the recall of five selectmen, comprising the entire Board of Selectmen. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Dirigo Elementary School, Route 108. This is the first exercise of the town’s recall ordinance, which was overwhelmingly […]

PERU — Town Clerk Vera Parent presented a list of delinquent property tax payers to the Board of Selectmen at Monday night’s meeting. She said the liens were from 2010 and before. Selectman Ed Ferland said the town didn’t have to maintain foreclosed properties, as they had been previously told. Parent said the town had […]

DIXFIELD — A fire in a wood shavings silo at the Irving Forest Products plant caused minimal damage Thursday morning, plant Manager Susan Coulombe said. “The cause is under investigation,” she said. Firefighters from Dixfield, Peru, Mexico and Rumford responded to the call just before 8 a.m. The fire was contained in the silo and extinguished in […]

PERU — Selectman Dickie Powell said he or another selectman should be able to preview what is going to be posted on the electronic sign at the fire station before it gets posted.  Powell asked who places the information on meetings on the sign, saying he got a complaint about it.   Selectman Kathy Hussey […]

PERU — Voters on Saturday narrowly passed an ordinance that requires selectmen to include a 20-minute public session at each board meeting and to put on the agenda any issue requested by a resident. A capacity crowd at the special town meeting at the former Peru Elementary School voted 49-43 to approve the local law. […]