Local News
[May 05th 2012] If you took one look at the crowd gathered at Waterville City Hall on Saturday, you would know who they were there to support. Whether it's on a button or a t-shirt, little Ayla Reynold's face catches your eye. This group wants to keep the missing... - read on...
[May 05th 2012] Senator Susan Collins praised her fellow senator, Olympia Snowe in a speech before the state republican convention. Collins said it's been an honor to serve alongside Snowe. collins also told delegates they left the 2010 convention with a fe... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Students from the Capital Area Technical Center were honored Friday morning for another amazing accomplishment. Forty students from the school did most of the work in building this energy efficient home at Cony Village in Augusta. Students i... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A 200 mile long pipeline that once carried jet fuel from Searsport to Loring Air force base in limestone is being sold. The 6-inch pipeline was built in the 1950s. It was shut down in 1994 when Loring closed. The owner will auction off the ... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A restaurant that has been serving up fried seafood to Turner residents for nearly eighty years is serving food no more. The Chick-a-dee Restaurant on Rt. 4 had a sign outside Wednesday that says "Sorry, we have closed." Another sign indicat... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Far from Alaska in Tremont, Maine, students competed in their own version of the Iditarod race. They called it the Idita-Read. "We started reading on the day the Iditarod started and then we read all through the days of the Iditarod," explained... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Travelling around Acadia National Park is becoming easier. That's thanks to the Island Explorer Gateway Center that had its grand opening on Friday. The Gateway Center will be a place for folks to park their cars before boarding one of the free... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] You could help a hometown hero take to the skies this summer. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority is teaming up with the Air Force to give a chosen few a flight with the Thunderbirds. It'll be at the Great State of Maine Air Show... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] The Maine Center for Disease Control set up shop at Epic Sports in Bangor Friday. May is Lyme Disease awareness month and they hope to educate mainers. They have plenty of suggestions on how to avoid tick bites. They say Epic Sports seeme... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Those with the Maine Discovery Museum and Junior Cchievement say it seemed like a perfect fit to join forces. " We're really hoping on just the awareness factor that as parents bring their kids in, learn more about Junior Achievement, they may ... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A meeting of the minds gave community leaders the chance to voice their concerns to lawmakers about proposed cuts to the Supplemental Department of Health and Human Services budget. The Waldo County Leadership Circle held a meeting Friday morni... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] State funding cuts have hit Central Maine schools hard. Thursday night in Fairfield the school board from MSAD 49 asked local lawmakers to step in and help fix the problem. Four State Representatives and one area Senator came to the school boa... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Two Destination Imagination teams from Hampden need some help getting to the Knoxville, Tennessee. The Weatherbee DI Team and the Glue Crew are working hard to raise funds to head to the global finals. Saturday, there will be a yard sale a... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Maine State Police is investigating two burglaries at the Surry Elementary School and the Surry Town Office. Police say the crimes happened on or about the evening of Thursday, May 3rd. If you have any information you are asked to call Mai... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] There's a new way for Augusta residents to stay informed about crime in the city. The Augusta Police Department now has an online crime map. It's called RAIDS Online and it maps and analyzes crime data as well as alerts residents about crime... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] We'll never know what caused a fire in Owls Head Thursday. Investigators say there was too much damage to the home on Great Marsh Lane. It started in a barn that has an apartment overhead, then spread to the home. No one was hurt. - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Bangor High School's Destination Imagination team is holding a big fundraiser Friday night. "The Crazy Gang" earned a trip to the global finals in Tennessee for the third year in a row, they are the only team from Bangor going. Destination I... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Police are trying to figure out if a man who robbed a pharmacy in Pittsfield Thursday night committed the same crime last fall. It's the second time the Rite Aid on Somerset Avenue has been targeted in less than seven months. Authorities sa... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Fiddlers from around the area will descend on Bangor for the 2012 Penobscot County Fiddler's showcase Saturday, May 5th. Penobscot Fiddles is an amateur group out of Bangor. They'll kick off the show at the Bangor Grange Hall on Ohio Street at ... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A former Maine high school track star has been sentenced to two years in jail for his role in the robbery of a Lewiston man's medical marijuana. Ricardo Hairston was also sentenced Thursday in Androscoggin County Superior Court to three years o... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A romantic relationship between two Maine state legislators has turned sour, with one of them obtaining a protection from abuse order against her former boyfriend. Democratic Representative Erin Herbig of Belfast filed for the order on Monday a... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] Maine Republican officials say Mitt Romney's brother, Scott Romney, will be the keynote speaker at the party's convention this weekend. Scott Romney, the presumptive presidential nominee's older brother and an attorney in Michigan, is scheduled... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] The only bridge observatory in the Western Hemisphere, the Penobscot Narrows Observatory in Maine, is open for the season. The sightseeing tower that's part of the cable-stay bridge between Prospect and Verona Island opened for its sixth season... - read on...
[May 04th 2012] A new stock assessment of American eels has concluded the eel population is technically depleted in U.S. waters. Baby eels, known as elvers, provide a valuable fishery to hundreds of Maine fishermen, who catch them each spring as they migrate u... - read on...
[May 03rd 2012] The head of the Smiley family dinner table is missing these days. Lieutenant Commander Dustin Smiley was deployed overseas back in November. Starting this January, Sarah Smiley and her kids decided to invite one guest a week to fill his seat... - read on...











