Browse past news stories for Peru Elementary School in Peru, ME.

• Residents vote to keep school, sell former town office (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 05:12:00 am
  PERU — Residents this week agreed to keep the former Peru Elementary School as a community resource, and rejected a proposal to retain ownership of the former town office site. The ballot count Tuesday was 448-316 to keep the school, and 353-402 to continue searching for a new own...
• RSU 10 to set long-term goals, approves European trip for high school students (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 04:12:40 am
  DIXFIELD — The Western Foothills School District board approved a field trip to Europe next summer for any student in the district's high schools in Rumford, Dixfield and Buckfield. Superintendent Tom Ward said approval was given Monday night for Mountain Valley High School Spani...
• Parents hunt for back-to-school bargains (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 07:42:54 am
  PLATTSBURGH — Debbie Pereau took her two granddaughters shopping for a few back-to-school items this year, just as they always do.
• Citizen challenges selectmen (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on July 28, 2009 at 04:14:50 am
  PERU — At a special town meeting Monday, resident Dennis Thibodeau demanded to know why selectmen refused to accept a bid that he had placed on a 24- by 56-foot portable structure located behind the Town Office. "We have offers," said Chairman James Pulsifer, noting the ...
• Fence in Peru right-of-way damaged (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on July 14, 2009 at 07:39:40 pm
  PERU — Winter snow removal has its hazards, including damage to property within a town's right of way. At a selectmen meeting on Monday, the board discussed what to do about a fence on East Shore Road that was damaged during snowplowing last winter. The landowner who had put it up...
• Future of some Peru buildings uncertain (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on June 16, 2009 at 09:11:47 am
  PERU - It is unclear what the future of several Peru buildings will be, and a recent town referendum turning down $10,000 to maintain the former school further muddied the waters.
• Voters turn down new plow truck (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 09:12:21 am
  PERU - In a town budget referendum Tuesday, residents turned down $70,000 toward the purchase of a new road department plow truck, with 86 in favor and 97 opposed.
• Tempers heat up in Peru (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
  posted on June 3, 2009 at 09:11:48 am
  PERU - Bitter words were exchanged between several Peru selectmen and residents at an informational meeting on the town budget Monday. Selectman Rodney Jamison accused fellow board members of lying about the figure spent on town office renovations.
• Schools looking at sales tax for answers (Bureau County Republican)
  posted on March 13, 2009 at 01:23:51 pm
  LASALLE — School boards and administrators across the state are looking at sales tax dollars as a way to renovate and replace their aging buildings. At Tuesday’s Spring 2009 IASB Starved Rock Division Dinner, held at Seneca’s Oak Ridge Golf Club, Cherry Superintendent Stephen Westrick conducted a panel discussion on the details and possibilities of a 1 percent County Facility Sales Tax. The ...