NORWAY — Drivers who escaped injury in a collision Thursday afternoon on Route 118 were identified by police Friday as Deborah Howe, 72, of Waterford and Leonard Sioch. 49, of Solon. Norway police officer John Lewis said the crash involving a large dump truck loaded with tar and a Volkswagen Rabbit could have been much worse. […]
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Dump truck flips in Norway; no injuries
NORWAY — Police blocked off a section of Route 118 after a dump truck tipped over at about 4 p.m. Thursday. No injuries were reported in the wreck, but traffic was snarled because two wreckers were needed to pull the overturned dump truck out of a ditch. Police were not releasing the drivers’ names Thursday […]
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Dump truck snags utility wires, rolls over in Kingfield
KINGFIELD — A dump truck snagged utility wires and rolled over Monday near Tufts Pond Road and Route 27, according to Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. No one was injured, Nichols said. Gilbert Taylor, 69, of North New Portland was driving east on Tufts Pond Road, approaching the Route 27 intersection, when the raised dump body […]
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Vehicles, equipment shot with BB's in Jay
JAY — Police are investigating several reports of vehicle windows being shattered or shot out by BB’s on the Old Jay Hill Road over the Memorial Day weekend. Windows and doors were damaged in five private vehicles, a bulldozer and two dump trucks owned by C.H. Stevenson Inc. of Wayne, Police Chief Richard Caton IV […]
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Lewiston police say bicyclist injured after riding into dump truck
LEWISTON — Police say a bicyclist collided with a dump truck about 7 a.m. Tuesday on Lisbon Street. Police say a man in his early 20s was riding his bike on the sidewalk and ran into a dump truck that was turning left. He sustained a large cut to his leg and was taken to […]
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Town plow truck, car collide in Jay
JAY — A town plow truck and a car collided at Oak and Main streets on Wednesday morning, police said. No one was injured. Shari Ouellette, 45, of Jay was driving on Oak Street toward Main Street, also known as Route 4, and Public Works Department employee Terry Greenleaf, 51, of Jay was turning right […]
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Peru residents OK bidding for truck
PERU — A small number of residents voted Sept. 1 to put a 1999 dump truck out to bid, secretary Angela Barkhouse said Tuesday. “We figured that the town wouldn’t have a problem with it, which is why so few people showed up,” she said. Road Commissioner Joe Roach said at a previous meeting that […]
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Peru selectmen put dump truck out to bid
PERU — The Board of Selectmen voted 5-0 Monday evening to put the town’s 1999 dump truck out to bid until Sept. 14. Road Commissioner Joe Roach told the board that he got the town’s 1999 Ford F-550 dump truck with a sander appraised and learned that its trade-in value was $7,500, though it was […]
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Livermore Falls culvert repairs to cost up to $30K
LIVERMORE FALLS — The replacement of two 50-foot culverts on Moose Hill Road and Claybrook Road are estimated to cost between $20,000 and $30,000, the town’s public works foreman, Bill Nichols, told selectmen on July 15. During heavy rains in early July, they started to lose the two 4-foot diameter culverts. “I put some rip-rap […]
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Problems with Livermore’s 2008 dump truck continue
LIVERMORE — The Highway Department continues to have problems with the 2008 GMC dump truck, Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said Wednesday. Highway Foreman Roger Ferland reported the issues to selectpersons Monday night, he said. The truck has less than 40,000 miles on it. There are problems with the wiring harness, Schaub said. Sometimes the truck […]