Bangor News

Way to show up, Oroville!!!! Y'all knock my boots off. As a friend of mine shouted over the noise of laughter, chatter, clanking dishes and order calls at Mike's Grande Burger Thursday night, "God bless small towns." "And God bless the people who live in them," I shouted back as more people squeezed their way into the already crowded dining room.

An Oroville man who had served time in prison for a previous killing, entered a surprise plea of no contest today in court to the first-degree murder of his wife at the couple's home late last month.

Butte County Historical Society will hold a program concerning the history of the Bangor community and its historic Bangor Church on Nov.

Butte County Sheriff Perry L. Reniff Thursday confirmed his plans to retire Dec.

Bill Connelly and I are co-chairs of the Oroville Veterans Memorial Park Honoring All of Butte County.

A state ethics commission has voted to launch an investigation into fund-raising efforts by the National Organization for Marriage and Stand for Marriage Maine.A By Lisa Keen The Maine Ethics Commission voted 3-2 on Thursday to launch a formal investigation into the National Organization for Marriage's funding of a state ballot measure that would ...

Art works by 22 Butte County artists are on display through Sept. 19, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Artists of River Town Gallery and Gifts, 1435 Myers St.

Anyone who doubts the power of a general plan - especially a freshly written one like Butte County's - should have been at the county Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday .

In a mixed message, Butte County's supervisors voted to oppose a drug and alcohol treatment center for American Indian youth at a location in the foothills east of Oroville, but they also said they supported such a facility somewhere else in the county.

This Sept. 18 reunion is open to all former softball players. Held at Western Pacific Brewery and Dining; no host cocktails 5-6:30 p.m., buffett dinner 6:30 p.m. $20 per person.

A proposed treatment facility for American Indian youth with psychiatric or chemical dependency problems that has generated much concern, will be up for discussion before the Butte County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.

On Sept. 15, the Butte County Board of Supervisors will hear a discussion about the American Indian and Native Alaskan Youth Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center proposed on Oro Bangor Highway.

Tonight, Indian Health Service representatives will discuss intentions to locate a Youth Regional Training Center east of Oroville.

About 100 people attended a meeting Friday evening at the Foothill Community Church to express concerns about a proposed American Indian Substance Abuse Center on Oro Bangor Highway about a half mile north of Foothill Boulevard.

A meeting Friday at the Foothill Community Church, 2475 Foothill Blvd., will address concerns about a proposed Native American Youth Substance Abuse Center in Oroville.

About 2,700 south Oroville residents lost power Wednesday morning after a Bangor woman crashed her car into a power pole, causing the pole to collapse and tangling the vehicle in a web of power lines.

Walking down Myers Street, one can't help but notice the bright new addition to downtown Oroville.

Exactly one week after a lawn mower started a blaze in the Lemon Hill area of Oroville, an individual completing brush work Monday afternoon may have sparked a blaze that burned five acres near Bangor.

A site has been chosen in Oroville for a federally funded regional center to treat American Indian and Alaskan Native teens with drug and alcohol addictions.

Pottery by Kelly is on display, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Wednesdays-Saturdays through June 26; State Theater, 1489 Myers St.