Dexter News

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.

BANGOR, Maine a ' Two bottles of baby powder brought back to court Friday a woman who served nearly six years in prison for killing her husband and cutting his body into 13 pieces.

A 65-year-old woman who served nearly six years in prison for killing her husband and chopping him up into pieces is behind bars for allegedly stealing two containers of baby powder from a grocery store in Dexter.

Dover-Foxcroft farmers Fred Sherburne and his nephew Shawn Sherburne stand among five acres of sunflowers on their Top of Maine Farms farm in Dexter on Monday.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the manslaughter conviction against a Corinna man whose excessive speed in 2005 caused a fatal accident on Route 7. In his appeal, Bradley S. Theriault, 30, claimed the evidence presented during his jury-waived trial in July 2008 in Piscataquis County Superior Court was insufficient to both support the ...

Quite a discovery for three children riding their bikes Monday evening on Route 23 in Dexter.

Authorities are investigating the death of a Guilford man found floating in a Dexter stream.

Two boys and a girl who were riding their bicycles along Route 23 on Monday found a dead body floating faceup in Main Stream.

A group of organic farmers representing three different producers is calling for a nationwide boycott of all H.P. Hood branded products and Stonyfield Organic Milk, also produced by Hood, because of what they term unfair business practices.