Peru News

After a presentation and discussion about sharing or combining services, selectmen are discussing the scope of a study for this area.

CAUSED BY HUMAN? - Ranger Kent Nelson from Maine Forest Service Tuesday said the cause of a fire that burned 10 acres of woods in Woodstock last week was likely caused by a human.

June Giambattista knew when she was a child and playing school with her six siblings that she wanted to be a teacher.

Karley Poulin, left, and Julia Sirois, both of Rumford, react as they near the end of a 700-foot zip line ride above the Androscoggin River on Saturday during Envision Rumford's debut Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford.

An improperly discarded cigarette burned a deck at a Route 2 house and half an acre of woods and brush early Saturday afternoon, Deputy fire Chief Richard Coulombe said.

The cause of a fire that burned across 10 acres in Woodstock this week is still unknown, but the Maine Forest Service believes a "human element" may have been involved and is looking for information from anyone who saw people in the area Wednesday.

Next Monday, the RSU 10 board is expected to act on recommended cuts that would bring the 2013-14 budget to $36 million.

The selectmen and finance committee were able to finally come together last week to finalize the budget for their April 29 deadline.

As many as 60 firefighters from a dozen towns and three Maine Fire Service helicopters battled a 10-acre fire on a mountainside off Perkins Valley Road on Wednesday afternoon for about four hours.

East Dixfield firefighter Brett Osgood soaks brush and grass that caught fire Friday afternoon behind a home at 19 Holman Road.

Evergreen Ridge Alpacas was started at Warren, Maine, in the Spring of 2006 by Alton and Carolyn Johnson, who were then in the process of retiring from their former careers of shipbuilder and psychologist.

Free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer will be done from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 15 at the Friends of Peru Elementary School at 30 Main St.