Buckfield News

Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.

Partners Lisa Brackbill, left, and Lisa Pugh, right, both from Buckfield, Maine console one another along with Darlene Huntress, center, of Portland, after learning about the unofficial defeat on Question 1 at election night headquarters in Portland, Maine, early Wednesday morning, Nov.

Share + Oct 13, 2009 9:45 am US/Eastern BUCKFIELD, Maine The Maine duo who brought the world Mentos-and-Coke geysers and falling sticky notes now has a new trick.

Stephen Voltz, left, and Fritz Grobe of Diet-Coke-and-Mentos fame demonstrate their latest stunt in Buckfield involving flames that respond to sound waves generated by music using propane gas and a piece of metal pipe.

Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 10:58am. It's partridge hunting season in Maine, and on opening day, a friend of mine set out with his shotgun to fill David Cassidy with birdshot.

Ken Schuler was still cleaning debris after a summer tornado destroyed an attached barn when his house in Hartford was burned to the ground in an early morning fire on Sunday.

A house is destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. Firefighters were called to 189 Carey Hill Road around 3:15 Sunday morning and are still at the scene.

Buckfield High School art students have been painting pumpkins grown in the school's garden.

Mike Miclon, front, with Aaron Dewitt, left, and Shane Miclon of the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield will be among the performers participating in a 24-hour-long fundraiser for Camp Sunshine in Casco.

More than 35 entertainers will perform non-stop for twenty-four hours on September 19 & 20 to raise funds and awareness for children with terminal illnesses Buckfield, ME - September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and the Oddfellow Theater will turn its own theater spotlight onto children with cancer.

The Maine City and Town Management Association has named Mark Green the 2009 Linc Stackpole Manager of the Year, according to information released by the Weekly Observer.

Corrine Turner of Buckfield carries her 11-month-old border collie, Ellie, as she walks in the annual Labor Day Parade in Buckfield on Monday morning.

The Puiia Gymnasium in Mountain Valley High School was filled Monday morning with 600-plus employees of the Western Foothills School District.

The National Weather Service confirmed Saturday that a tornado moved through western Maine Friday evening.

PARIS a ' Several people entered initial pleas to criminal charges Thursday at their arraignments before Justice William Brodrick in in the Oxford County Superior Court.

Correction: Because of an error by the Associated Press, a stand-alone photo in yesterday's Metro section of two jugglers in Vermont gave an incorrect hometown for the young men.

I feel compelled to write about the disgrace of the Prince Cemetery in Buckfield.

Jared Mongeau, a 17-year-old Cumberland resident, is on tour with Circus Smirkus for the second year.

Smart work by fireighters helped prevent a lumber yard fire from spreading. The owners of the R.E. Lowell Lumber Yard estimate they lost about 1-Million dollars in the fire.

BUCKFIELD a ' Firefighters from several towns responded to a fire Saturday afternoon at R.E. Lowell Lumber on North Hill Road.