Buckfield News

Celebration Barn Theater will present Amanda Huotari in "The Soiree," an unconventional dramatic comedy, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

All Maine artists are invited to participate in the annual Judged Art Show hosted by the Western Maine Art Group, which will open with a reception Friday, Aug.

PALERMO : The 2008 Palermo Days schedule included a bus tour of historic places, a family fun night and car show, a basketball challenge and talent show.

High-tech juggling. Fire eating. Physical comedy. Full-body contortion. These are all part of brothers Matthew and Jason Tardy's show, "TWO: High Energy Juggling," which they'll perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug.

A Buckfield man who was struck by a car while walking on Route 26 on Sunday night remains in critical condition at a Lewiston hospital while Oxford police continue their investigation.

A Buckfield man who was struck by a car while walking on Route 26 on Sunday night remains in critical condition at a Lewiston hospital while Oxford police continue their investigation.

Gone Mentos? Fritz Grobe, of www.eepybird.com, watches some of his diet Coke-mentos show take to the air at Capital EX on July 21.

Gone Mentos? Fritz Grobe, of www.eepybird.com, watches some of his diet Coke-mentos show take to the air at Capital EX on July 21.

A race fan walking on Route 26 from the Oxford Raceway Sunday evening is in critical condition after being struck by a passing vehicle.

Capital EX crowds are being entertained this week with "pyrotechnics" that use little more than Diet Coke and Mentos mints.

Ryan Muncey told his girlfriend they had to flee Maine because he was involved in a New Auburn stabbing and had learned the victim was dead, court records say.

Directors for SADs 39 and 17 have about three months to determine whether they can successfully implement a plan that would combine the two educational systems.

Details for the rip-roaring smash-bang Fourth of July celebration in Turner are completed and it is evident that the town will see the biggest event in its history aside from the centennial 25 years ago.

The following arrests were recorded at the Oxford County Jail: Stephen Curtis Holden, 45, of Otisfield, June 23, unpaid fines, $170, Oxford County Sheriff's Office Ryan Thomas Child, 21, of Rumford, June 23, ...

It was supposed to be a fun evening ride. The Legere family had made the trip before, clomping down Route 117 in one of Phil Trundy's pony carts.

Since 1998, "The Early Evening Show" with Mike Miclon has been playing to packed houses at Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield.

LINCOLNVILLE : John Meader, who raises woody plants in Buckfield, has a neat system for propagating some shrubs, vines and trees from softwood cuttings .

Despite the fact that midnight was fast approaching, more than half of the original 80 voters in attendance continued to look for every penny they might cut from the town's budget Wednesday.

Polly Ouimet, a longtime news editor at the Sun Journal, died Friday of cancer at home with her family by her side.

One of the survivors of a deadly crash in Buckfield is out of the hospital. Grace Legere, 9, was killed Monday when a truck ran into the horse-drawn buggy in which she was riding along Route 117.