Area students graduate from Emerson College

Residents approve $13.4 million budget for Pittsfield-area school district

Residents of the three School Administrative District 53 towns — Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield — voted 240 to 124 last week to approve the district budget.

Residents give preliminary approval to Pittsfield-area school district’s $13.4 million budget

Maine School Administrative District 53, which serves Burnham, Detroit and Pittsfield, held its annual budget hearing Thursday.

Road work planned on Interstate 95 from Waterville to Pittsfield

The work by the state Department of Transportation will include paving and striping from Waterville to Pittsfield and will include paving on- and off-ramps.

Drones join battle against browntail moth as Kennebec County becomes epicenter of pest

In the county hardest hit by the invasive browntail moth, Litchfield arborist Eben Mann is taking to the air with a drone and a specially developed tool to cut down the nests before hungry toxic hair-bearing caterpillars start emerging.

Local students make Emerson College dean’s list

Clinton resident receives Boston Post Cane

Burnham completes beach stormwater erosion project as it battles algae blooms

Project part of watershed protection plan that is to start in 2023.

Skowhegan hospital reports around 10 inoculations during fair’s first clinic

The hospital's EMS department offered to assist with a vaccine clinic at the Skowhegan State Fair, and a pharmacist reports that around 10 people took advantage of the free clinic during its first session over the weekend.

Burnham man who survived building collapse 34 years ago wants those in Florida to know ‘people care about them’

The L'Ambiance Plaza building collapsed April 23, 1987, and Edward LeBel still harbors vivid memories of surviving the tragedy that killed 28 people.