North-Jay News

Police are looking for a vehicle, believed to be a pickup truck, that hit a guy wire Sunday night on Route 4 in North Jay, spilled some furniture and took off.

A fire believed to have started by discarded wood stove ashes destroyed a combined waste transfer station and office building early Friday morning.

Selectmen have agreed not to charge the School Department for sewer use in 2009-10. The charge had been included in the proposed budget, if voters had approved consolidating with Livermore and Livermore Falls ...

A five-vehicle collison on Paris Street in front of Science North Jan. 26 at around 8:30 a.m. sent three people to hospital.

The Jay Village Water District will hold a public meeting Wednesday to discuss its proposal to seek a federal loan or grant for $200,000 to help build a pump station and upgrade water lines.

David Montgomery, the exec-utive chairman of Mecom, has defeated an attempt to oust him by fellow directors, prompting the resignation en masse of six members of the publishing group's board yesterday.

Selectmen voted 4-1 Monday to increase the sewer rate $40 per unit, bringing the July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, fee to $290. Opposing was Selectman Tom Goding.

An Arab couple has been charged in the New Year's Day death of a 1- year-old boy.

Selectmen authorized the building inspector to work with people who have potentially dangerous situations pertaining to buildings.

Tickets for the Jan. 24 Farmington Inaugural Ball will go on sale Monday, Jan. 5, at three locations in Franklin County.

Three people were injured Tuesday morning when two cars collided head-on on Route 4 at its intersection with Route 17 in North Jay.

Dropped ash from a cigarette is being blamed for a fire that damaged an apartment at 28 Jewell St.