Dexter News

The Penobscot County Soil and Water Conservation District is working with the Dexter Lakes Association to improve the quality of Lake Wassookeag by eliminating runoff from the adjoining school property.

Mayor Nicholas Mavodones Jr. and City Manager Joseph Gray are urging Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter to reconsider his decision to stop subsidizing the ferry service between Nova Scotia and Maine.

Officials in southwest Nova Scotia are urging the provincial government to reverse its decision to eliminate the subsidy for the ferry service between the province and Maine.

This 1924 image from Maine photographer Bert L. Call depicts Ambajesus Lake in the heart of the Maine wilderness.

Pete Tinker of Searsmont has been trapping for 50 years. Sometimes, he's looking for pelts to sell.

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With financial help from the federal and state governments, this town in the future could generate half of the electricity used in its municipal buildings through hydroelectric power, thus reducing its consumption of fossil fuels, according to a town official.

Korean War veteran Clayton Lancaster, 78 of Dexter walks back to his car after visiting the Togus Mobile Healthcare Clinic for some lab work in Dover-Foxcroft Wednesday.

Fire destroyed a home in Garland today. A passerby reported the blaze on the Dexter road around 11:00 this morning.

A young family lost virtually everything they owned Thursday when a fire raged through their home at 29 Dexter Road.

Sangerville man reported missing this morning, Nov. 5, was located at approximately 2:15 p.m. today at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

Wayne David DuPlessis of Bethel died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. He was born Jan. 10, 1952, in Van Buren, the son of Ludger and Theresa DuPlessis.

Fourth-generation dairy farmer Mark McKusick leads two stragglers of his mostly Holstein herd in for milking Thursday in Dexter.

Something was amiss with the cosmos during the third week of July 1926. The temperature hovered near 100 all up and down the eastern seaboard and as far west as Ohio.

Population: 1900: 3,770 1910: 6,777 1920: 8,576 1930: 10,340 1940: 10,230 1950: 9,954 1960: 10,005 1970: 9,363 1980: 8,240 1990: 7,078 2000: 6,472 2008: 6,310 Source: Census) School enrollment 1970: 2,473 1980: 1,495 1990: 1,080 2000: 1,033 Number of jobs in town 1990: 4,158 1997: 3,576 Drop: 14 percent Limestone has been there.

The Maine Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the Hall of Flags in the State House.

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A federal investigation has been launched into a report that a Dexter postal worker pepper-sprayed a small dog Saturday and allegedly sprayed a young girl who came to the dog's rescue.

Mail Carrier Sprays 5-pound Dog, 7-year-old Girl Share + Sep 14, 2009 10:10 am US/Eastern Mail Carrier Sprays 5-pound Dog, 7-year-old Girl DEXTER, Maine Maine State Police are looking into a report of a mail carrier using pepper spray on a 7-year-old girl and her Chihauhau puppy.

BREWER : Jackson Daniel Tolman and Jordan Dexter Tolman were born Aug. 24, 2009, to Emily and Steve Tolman Jr.