The Skowhegan State Fair, the oldest fair in Maine, is in its 194th year.
It continues at Skowhegan Fairgrounds for 10 days with rides, animal exhibits and competitions, music, demolition derbies, harness racing and other entertainment. The fair is billed as the nation’s longest continuously operating agricultural fair.
August 2012
Insurer Maine Community Health Options to receive federal start-up money
A new nonprofit health insurer for Maine will receive $62.1 million in financing from the federal government to help it start offering affordable insurance options to individuals and small businesses in 2014.
Lightning ignites Fayette home
FAYETTE — Meredith Pepper had just put a movie in for her three children to watch Thursday afternoon when she heard a loud boom.
MLB: Doubront to miss next start
CLEVELAND (AP) — Boston Red Sox left-hander Felix Doubront will miss his next turn in the rotation and right-hander Aaron Cook will start Wednesday against Baltimore.
Alleged pharmacy robbers indicted
AUGUSTA — A Kennebec County Superior Court grand jury this week handed up indictments charging three men with five recent pharmacy robberies, including two in Fairfield and Waterville.
Former Border Trust bank branches rebranded to new owner Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
AUGUSTA — Bar Harbor Bank & Trust locations officially open Monday in central Maine, replacing bank branches that had previously been owned by Augusta-based Border Trust Co.
Gas prices skyrocketing again, but analysts say price will drop after Labor Day
NEW YORK — A surprise surge in gasoline prices is taking some of the fun out of summer.
ALLEN AFIELD: Gray fox sighting causes a stir
One recent dawn, still plenty dark with the first sliver of saffron light on the horizon, I opened the front door to let out our yellow Lab to do her morning duties.
HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS: Honor long time coming for Begin
Waterville school officials have tried for years — six to be exact — to commemorate the renaming of the North Street tennis courts in Jim Begin’s honor. That day finally came Friday after much pressure from the many people whose lives Begin impacted.
NBA: Howard traded to Lakers
Dwight Howard is off to play alongside Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles, after a megadeal was worked out Thursday and completed Friday after the NBA reviewed and approved the particulars. As far as the other headliners involved, Andrew Bynum leaves the Lakers for Philadelphia and Andre Iguodala is heading to Denver.