Canton News

DIXFIELD a ' Selectmen heard a presentation from Todd Presson and Tom Carroll on a proposed wind farm project at a special meeting Monday night that could add as much as $40 million to the value of the town.

PARIS a ' A Canton man pleaded no contest Thursday in Oxford County Superior Court to two charges that he shot and killed his neighbor's two dogs March 15 when they got loose and came onto his porch.

Steve Thurston, a summer resident of Roxbury, decribes what he believes would be the noise impact of a wind farm on a ridge in Dixfield and Canton at a forum in Dixfield on Friday night.

Midwest Price Co. chip truck driver Jamie Murphy, center, of Canton, talks with an unidentified man after the tractor-trailer Murphy was driving slammed into the Michael J. Mills Landscaping trailer at right at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday on Route 2 in Bethel.

On November 3, Maine voters will be asked, "Do you want to repeal the 2007 law on school district consolidation and restore the laws previously in effect?" It's Question 3 on the ballot, and has garnered a lot of attention from around the state.

I'm the rider of the Arabian mare that crashed through the snowmobile bridge. I'm writing this to express my gratitude to everyone who was involved in a bad day that could have turned out even worse.

PERU a ' A State Police trooper said Wednesday that he walked into an underage drinking party Sunday night off Old Valley Road, where unwitting booze-toting teens kept arriving, along with a 37-year-old man who brought alcohol and his girlfriend's teenage daughter.

Aquila the Arabian horse was contentedly munching hay Wednesday afternoon as her owner, Leigh Shields, petted and spoke to the gray mare.

The driver of this Chevy sedan was killed on Thursday afternoon after colliding with the fuel tank and dual tires of a west-bound Kenworth B.D.S. Waste Disposal Inc.

WILTON a ' Wilton police are investigating a fatal accident involving a car, pickup truck and tractor-trailer Thursday afternoon on Route 2 just west of East Dixfield village.

Canton firefighters remove debris from Canton Point Road on a rainy Saturday afternoon after driver Elijah Johnson, 24, of Canton, lost control of his 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee, according to Maine State Trooper Kyle Tilsley.

OXFORD a ' Just as race teams from around the northeast are preparing to descend on western Maine for the season's biggest short track event, the local track champion is hitting his stride.

CANTON a ' Work on the temporary dam on Whitney Brook is holding well and the dam might be classified as permanent, Board of Selectmen Chairman Scott Kilbreth told fellow board members Thursday night.

More than 2 inches of rain that fell Thursday night into Friday, coupled with an emergency dispatcher's call sending firefighters to Canton Dam, sparked fears the dam had breached.

Selectpersons appointed Donald St. Laurent of Canton as the new Highway Department foreman, effective on or about July 15, select board administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said Wednesday.

Air temperature hovering around 50 degrees Saturday did not deter 15 or so hardy citizens and a dog from finishing the temporary dam at the Whitney Brook outlet on Lake Anasagunticook.