Second season of the MPA-sanctioned sport opens Friday with 15 new teams.
2016
Storm prompts Portland Jetport to advise air travelers to monitor – or alter – flights
The airport’s director predicts ‘a ripple effect’ as a major storm targets the mid-Atlantic states.
Birth announcements
Stuart, Stockford, Ellsworth, Gregory, Ashton, Harris, Yard families welcome new additions.
Maine sheriffs say cooperation making jail system work despite challenges
Six months after the state’s jail consolidation was dissolved, legislators are told a state funding shortfall hurts, but local control is a plus.
Starks to consider moratorium on medical marijuana businesses
The move to put the ordinance on a March 11 referendum was spurred by an informal proposal to bring a medical marijuana research laboratory to town.
Roland Cummings sentenced to life in prison for murder of 92-year-old in Waterville
Cummings was convicted in November of stabbing Aurele Fecteau to death as he slept in his bed.
Missouri farm family buys Uncle Dean’s Good Groceries in Waterville
‘Our objective is to steward it well,’ new co-owner Jim Hoving says of the store Dean and Kathy Bureau have owned since 1981.
Four men arrested in Lyman home invasion, assault
They are accused of holding a family of five at gunpoint and sexually assaulting one person.
Franklin County courts Dec. 7-11, 2015
Closed cases for Franklin County Superior Court and Farmington District Court.
Maine Senate president seeks opinion on whether ranked-choice voting would be constitutional
Michael Thibodeau has asked the attorney general to advise whether lawmakers can, or should, intervene to settle the question.