Nicholas Sambides Jr.
Katahdin Bureau
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Lincoln couple charged with assaulting man, woman
LINCOLN, Maine – A Lincoln couple was being held at Penobscot County Jail on a total $10,020 bail Wednesday after they were charged with assaulting another couple, officials said. Walter Cote III, 43, and Andrea Carlow, 22, were both charged on Friday night with aggravated assault, police said. Lincoln police ...
East Millinocket leaders set roof project referendum date
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Voters will decide during a special referendum on July 18 whether to repair the roof of Schenck High and Opal Myrick Elementary schools for about $1.87 million, officials said Wednesday. The Board of Selectmen voted 5-0 on Monday to set the date and to approve the ...
Second tornado verified from Sunday’s storms in Maine
PLEASANT RIDGE PLANTATION, Maine — The second of two very weak tornadoes to touch down briefly during last weekend’s heavy thunderstorms left a 60-yard swath of snapped and uprooted trees, National Weather Service officials said Wednesday. Weather service meteorologists discovered the damage during their survey of the woods of this ...
School board member feared dead following Winn fire
WINN, Maine — A SAD 30 school board member is missing after a fire destroyed her home. Investigators said an autopsy will be performed to identify the body they found in the wreckage.
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School board member feared dead following Winn fire
WINN, Maine — A member of the SAD 30 school board is missing and feared dead in a fire that destroyed a Phillips Road log cabin home on Tuesday that she shared with her husband, officials said. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland confirmed that Lisa Fogg is ...
Firefighters seek occupant of home destroyed by fire in Winn
WINN, Maine — Firefighters have an unconfirmed report that one of two occupants of a Phillips Road home destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning is missing, interim Mattawamkeag Fire Chief Michael Coombs said. Emergency responders had strung yellow boundary tape around almost the entire property of 391 Phillips Road and ...
National Weather Service verifies tornado near Eagle Lake
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Arielle Smith knew that the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning, but she still felt jolted when she saw the swirling gray clouds dancing near Katahdin Avenue on Sunday. “It didn’t look like it had a long-enough funnel to touch down,” the 21-year-old Husson University ...
East Millinocket faces tangle of thorny options with its schools
East Millinocket voters will have no easy choices when it comes to the future of Schenck High and Opal Myrick Elementary schools in the 1957-vintage Schenck building.
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Can mill town rivals consolidate schools? Rumford and Mexico did it
RUMFORD, Maine — To Andra Beauchesne and others of her generation, the section of the Androscoggin River separating Rumford and Mexico was once more like the Berlin Wall than a mere body of water. The 65-year-old receptionist graduated with the Class of 1965 from Rumford’s Stevens High School, Mexico High ...
Despite spending cuts, proposed Lincoln school budget increases
LINCOLN, Maine — Shrinking state aid will leave taxpayers in the three-town RSU 67 paying $205,764 more for services next year under the board’s proposed $12.05 million budget, officials said Thursday. The school district’s board of directors cut spending in the proposed 2013-14 budget to a level about $86,000 less ...
Oakland couple to retire from restoring Pockwockamus Rock mural at Baxter State Park
TOWNSHIP 2 RANGE 9 — An icon to recreationalists headed toward Baxter State Park, the often photographed Pockwockamus Rock has been a fresh yet almost entirely original face to the world for 23 years thanks to Abbott and Nancy Meader. The artists and annual Baxter park campers from Oakland have ...
Mattawamkeag selectman claims illegal meeting
MATTAWAMKEAG, Maine — Two selectmen might have violated state law Friday when they met with a state trooper who interviewed them as part of an investigation into an alleged misappropriation of funds, according to the chairman of the board of selectmen. State police Trooper Thomas Fiske met with town Administrative ...
Lincoln town treasurer ends administrative leave by retiring
LINCOLN, Maine — Town Treasurer Gilberte Mayo has retired, interim Town Manager William Lawrence said Tuesday. “We are grateful for her 27 years of service. I have no other comments,” Lawrence said in an email released late Friday afternoon. On Tuesday, Lawrence said town officials will begin searching for Mayo’s ...
Lincoln’s Coffee Pot Cafe shuts its doors
LINCOLN, Maine — The Coffee Pot Cafe has closed. Neighbors of the West Broadway eatery said it shut down Saturday and that workers were inside the business emptying it of much of its contents on Tuesday. A woman who answered the telephone Wednesday at The Coffee Pot Cafe in Bangor, ...
East Millinocket selectmen oppose repairing Schenck High roof
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Voters will probably get a chance next month to decide whether to fix Schenck High School’s roof in a $1.87 million project that the school board supports and selectmen oppose. The Board of Selectmen voted 3-2 on Tuesday to recommend against the project if the referendum ...
East Millinocket selectmen considering second offer on former elementary school
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Town leaders say they want to ensure that they have the best offer before they sell the former Opal Myrick Elementary School for $1. Selectmen agreed during a meeting at the town office on Monday to delay selling the building until they had entertained other offers. ...
Selectman: Mattawamkeag firefighting family used town credit card for personal gas
MATTAWAMKEAG, Maine — Credit card receipts show that suspended Fire Chief Robert Powers and his wife, Lynne, bought at least $9,000 in gasoline for personal vehicles with a town credit card intended for Fire Department use, Selectman Bion Tolman said Tuesday. The board’s chairman, Tolman and selectmen, who reviewed the ...
East Millinocket leaders delay vote on Schenck roof repair project
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — The Board of Selectmen will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday to consider the repair of Schenck High School’s roof as part of a project with a cost that might increase to $2.1 million, officials said. Selectmen met for about 40 minutes at the town office on ...
Medway leaders delay budget process until state leaders complete theirs
MEDWAY, Maine — Uncertainty about what the state Legislature will do with Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed state budget has prompted town leaders to delay their own budget work indefinitely, town Administrative Assistant Kathy Lee said Thursday. “How do you put together a budget without knowing what your revenues are going ...
![East Millinocket School Committee members Angel Danforth [left] and Chairman Dan Byron listen to Millinocket School Committee members during a meeting at Stearns High School on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.](http://bdnpull.bangorpublishing.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/10048401_H10521083-250x250.jpg)
‘We need to consolidate’: Stearns student scolds Katahdin school boards
MILLINOCKET, Maine — Tanner McLaughlin had heard enough. A Stearns High School sophomore, the student representative on the Millinocket school board, scolded his fellow board members and the East Millinocket school board during a meeting on Wednesday night for failing to aggressively pursue consolidating the towns’ two school systems. “I ...
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