Nicholas ‘Tiny’ Rolling, of New York, who held two people hostage in Winthrop in January and terrorized them with a baseball bat and machete, was sentenced on two counts of criminal threatening and one of assault.

Some of the most important issues facing the town, according to the four candidates, include how to promote economic and population growth in town as well as proposed lakefront property purchase.

Dennis Lalime was charged after he went off the road early Sunday morning in Pittsfield and hit a tree after attending a Halloween party as the Batman villain.

West Gardiner women did $34,000 in damage to gravestones, according to Monmouth Cemetery Association, and were charged Friday with aggravated criminal mishchief, as well as other charges.

Peter Reny engineered the final trip of a two-mile stretch of Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad as the track is set to be converted to a walking trail.

The percentage of last year’s juniors who met or exceeded standards rose from 39.3 to 52.6 in math, from 39.9 to 54.3 in reading and 36.4 to 48 in writing on the college entrance exams.