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Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
OLD TOWN, Maine — Authorities were in the woods near the Stillwater River in Old Town on Tuesday morning at the site where the body of Nichole Cable is believed to have been found. Maine State Police and other law enforcement personnel were gathered near the intersection of Routes 43 ...
Informational roadblocks, ground searches yield more tips on missing Glenburn teen Nichole Cable
GLENBURN, Maine — Police said Monday they are following leads developed from Sunday’s massive search for a 15-year-old girl who was last seen on Mother’s Day but are not releasing any information about what was found. In addition to the ground searches coordinated by the Maine Warden Service, police conducted ...
Items found, authorities pursuing leads in search for Glenburn teen
GLENBURN, Maine — Police said Monday they are following leads developed from Sunday’s massive search for a 15-year-old girl who was last seen on Mother’s Day but are not releasing any information about what was found. “We’re doing follow-up investigations,” Troy Morton, deputy chief for the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, ...
Education costs pushing up Brewer tax rate, city leaders say
BREWER, Maine — The total combined draft budget is going up less than 1 percent, but a reduction in the tax base and increased costs for education and county taxes means a projected property tax increase, city officials are predicting. “It’s a very unusual year,” Finance Director Karen Fussell said ...
Holden council holds first town meeting at renovated old town hall
HOLDEN, Maine — When the new Holden municipal facility opened in 1975, the old town hall built in 1873 was retired and for decades sat vacant, silently awaiting its fate. A 2009 mutually beneficial land swap with Jeff Leadbetter of Bangor, who built a 4,000-square-foot convenience store next door, led ...
Central Maine Power’s $15 million investment good for Orrington budget
ORRINGTON, Maine — Central Maine Power Co.’s $1.55 billion upgrade to double its electric grid’s capacity has meant a multi-million dollar investment in town that is helping offset projected state revenue cuts, Town Manager Paul White said. “The budget for the town of Orrington — the combined school and municipal ...
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Mother makes emotional plea for return of missing Glenburn teen
BANGOR, Maine — The mother of a missing 15-year-old Glenburn girl made an emotional plea on Wednesday for the safe return of her daughter, Nichole Cable, who was last seen Sunday evening on Route 221 in her hometown. “I would like to say, ‘Nichole, we love you and if you’re ...
Clifton wind farm project sent back to planning board by Superior Court judge
BANGOR, Maine — A Superior Court judge affirmed most of the Clifton planning board’s October 2011 decision to approve a $25 million wind farm on Pisgah Mountain, but also remanded the matter back to planners to review tower heights and sound levels. “It’s a real victory — the first victory ...
West Gardiner Firemen’s Association president says fired chief not qualified
WEST GARDINER, Maine — Vicki Dill, who became the town’s first female fire chief in March after agreeing to drop a 2009 sexual discrimination lawsuit against the town, was fired because she was unqualified for the job, a fire official said Tuesday. “There is no way she’s qualified to be ...
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New Brewer zoning plan relaxes rules to spur middle school plan
BREWER, Maine — The Brewer Housing Authority expressed an interest in redeveloping the historic Brewer Middle School into affordable senior housing back in 2008, and signed a purchase and sale agreement last year. But the project has been stalled by residential zoning limits. The housing authority’s plan is to change ...
LifeFlight helicopter called to scene of rollover on rural Frankfort road
FRANKFORT, Maine — A man driving on North Searsport Road apparently lost control of his vehicle shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday and rolled it, a Waldo County Communications Center dispatcher confirmed. The accident was reported at 265 North Searsport Road at about 7:10 p.m., but details about the driver, his ...
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Illegal Bangor pool dumping incident spurs reminder about safe water disposal
BANGOR, Maine — Workers who violated a city ordinance by discharging old water from an inground swimming pool on Falvey Street directly into a nearby catch basin that empties into a nearby brook has led the city to issue a reminder about safely draining swimming pools. The pool water contained ...
Hampden woman accused of shooting couple with pellet gun facing assault charge
HAMPDEN, Maine — A local woman was charged with misdemeanor assault Sunday after allegedly shooting her former roommates with a pellet gun when they returned to her residence to search for a missing dog. Kara Sickles, 29, was summoned after she used a Crosman air gun to shoot her two ...
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Motley Crue, Hinder concertgoers first to experience new multimillion-dollar waterfront pavilion
BANGOR, Maine — Modern rock band Hinder and rock legends Motley Crue take the stage Thursday at the new multimillion-dollar Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion that is designed to give both artists and concertgoers a better experience, while also redirecting the noise. “It’s an absolutely different experience,” Alex Gray, promoter for Bangor’s ...
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Tyler Walsh, son of legendary Black Bear hockey coach, graduates from UMaine
ORONO, Maine — Tyler Walsh, the eldest son of legendary hockey coach Shawn Walsh, followed in his grandfather’s footsteps to Michigan State, but felt a calling from the University of Maine and transferred after just two years. “It was the best decision he ever made,” his mother, Tracey Mason, said ...
UMaine families create graduation legacies
ORONO, Maine — University of Maine new media graduate Jeff Spaulding walked up on stage at UMaine’s 211th graduation ceremony traveling the same path that his mother, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather took years before. “My grandfather, his great-great-grandfather, was in the Class of 1915,” said Spaulding’s grandfather, Calvin Luther, ...
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Collision leaves car lodged under tractor-trailer in Hampden
HAMPDEN, Maine — The young man driving an Audi that somehow got stuck under a tractor-trailer at the junction of Route 202 and the Mecaw Road Saturday afternoon was trapped inside the smashed vehicle for awhile but was talking by the time firefighters removed him. Dakota El-Hajj, 20, of Winterport ...
Annual Penobscot River cleanup postponed to May 18
BREWER, Maine — The annual May cleanup of the Penobscot River and other waterways in Brewer, originally scheduled for this weekend, has been postponed by a week because of the inclement weather, Ken Locke, the city’s environmental services director, said Friday. “We had to reschedule until next Saturday, May 18,” ...
Maine Air National Guard veteran retires after nearly 30 years of service
AUGUSTA, Maine — Chief Master Sgt. Jerard “Marty” Lurz joined the U.S. Marines in 1984 and has spent the last three decades in uniform, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar and Oman as part of the Maine Air National Guard’s 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron of South Portland. Lurz of Minot, who ...
Holden’s Gagne & Son Concrete grand opening Saturday
HOLDEN, Maine — Gagne & Son Concrete’s new location at 252 Main Road will hold a grand opening from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 11, Darrell Pelotte, program development and sales manager, said Thursday. It is the company’s eighth location in Maine. The 8000-square-foot retail facility, which has ...
Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
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