Winxnet, a growing information technology company in Portland, is enjoying an 18 percent drop in health insurance premiums after years of painful double-digit increases. Surprised managers even double checked all the numbers to make sure the good news was true.

FARMINGTON — Another bomb threat at Mt. Blue High School caused students and staff to leave the building on Friday.

BELGRADE LAKES — The Planning Board on Thursday will discuss an application to remove one half of a 60-year-old building on Mill Stream.

GARDINER — Contact is a integral part of Andrew Doody-Veilleux’s job as an offensive tackle.

SKOWHEGAN — State education officials and the local school board have approved a borrowing package of up to about $2 million for a biomass boiler system to heat Skowhegan Area High School and nearby Bloomfield Elementary School.

MONMOUTH — Last spring, Megan Ferland wrote “America: the Way Life Should Be?” as a scholar in the Michael D. Wilson Research Program at the University of Maine in Farmington.

NEWPORT — The following cases were closed from Sept. 9, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2011, in Newport District Court.