Kyle Hewins gets treated for burns on his hands and is in satisfactory condition at Maine Medical Center.

Saturday morning’s rain is long forgotten as balloonists are treated to a sunny Sunday morning for final liftoffs at the Great Falls Balloon Festival in Lewiston.

Funds raised at the Muskie Lobster Bake in Freeport will be used for legislative races as Democrats try to win back State House majorities they lost two years ago.

BRISTOL — Dennis Hopkins was waiting late last month at the stop sign at Walpole Meetinghouse Road, where he lives. Across Route 130, a worker from Asplundh Tree Expert Co. was high above the highway in a bucket, pruning pine and maple branches away from the power lines.

AUGUSTA — In September 1670, Daniel Stone and Patience Goodwin registered their intention to marry with the Kittery town clerk.

“You’ve probably seen or heard the national debate that is raging over the $716 billion robbing of Medicare that will directly impact costs and care for tens of millions of seniors across this country.”
– Email from Maine People Before Politics, a conservative interest group, to supporters

RICHMOND — Firefighters were called to 665 Alexander Reed Road in Richmond shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday to respond to a mobile home fire.

OAKLAND — With proposed school budgets falling like dominoes in referendum votes, school districts across the state are learning the hard way that their budgets are facing more rigorous challenges from residents focused on keeping local property taxes as low as possible.