East Millinocket News

BANGOR, Maine a ' Police announced that due to the expected winter storm and astronomical high tides the Kenduskeag Stream East and West parking lots downtown will be closed from 6 a.m. Friday, Jan.

HARPSWELL, Maine a ' The Maine Marine Patrol says a 27-year-old Bath man died after falling from a lobster boat into icy water off the coast.

Town leaders are studying whether to close Opal Myrick Elementary School and house pupils at Schenck High School, possibly in a new addition.

Fire Chief Les Brown is working to combine the town fire and ambulance services as part of a plan to save the town at least $140,000 annually, town officials say.

Firefighters from five towns spent about seven hours Wednesday battling a fire that consumed several tons of recycled newsprint amid miserably smoky, foggy and icy conditions at the Katahdin Paper Co.

Crews were called to a camp fire in Grindstone Sunday night. The call came in around 9:30. Fire fighters from Medway, East Millinocket, and Mattawamkeag responded.

Sgt. Kevin Giberson resigned his job this week, joining two other officers who have left the Police Department abruptly since the summer, town officials said Friday.

Instrumentation devices that communicate wirelessly may still need power supplied the old-fashioned way.

A federal judge raised a few eyebrows in a Bangor courtroom yesterday while sentencing a Millinocket man on child pornography charges.

A Millinocket man sentenced Monday to 61 2 years in prison for possession of child pornography was identified by a federal judge as "a person of interest" in the homicide of Joyce McLain.

Sara Alberts will retire effective June 30 as superintendent of the Katahdin region's public schools, ending five years of what Millinocket School Committee Chairman Thomas Malcolm called "an impossible job." Alberts announced her retirement to a combined Union 113-Millinocket School Committee meeting Monday night.

Thanksgiving is a day for family, friends and altogether too much food. Even the Maine congressional delegation, whose day-to-day lives are different than most - weathering elections and long floor battles, allocating billions in federal funds to help the folks back home - will give their power suits a break and celebrate a largely traditional ...

A 39-year-old Medway man has been arrested and charged with Arson in relation to a fire yesterday morning that destroyed an abandoned house.

The State Fire Marshal's Office says a man has been arrested and charged with arson for a series of fires in Medway.

State investigators are probing whether an arson that destroyed an abandoned house on Pattagumpus Road early Thursday is connected to at least three other fires in town that they say also were set intentionally.

Firefighters were called Sunday night to two adjacent fires, one of which gutted an abandoned home, and a state investigator said Monday they are being investigated.

Fire investigators will be in Medway Monday morning, trying to figure out what sparked a fire at an abandoned house Sunday night.

Medway businessman James B. Lee has been placed under house arrest for violating bail while awaiting trial for manslaughter.

Medway businessman James B. Lee, who is awaiting trial on a charge of manslaughter, was returned to jail Thursday because the state was unable to complete his bail violation hearing before the close of the court's business day.

Medway businessman James Bryant Lee was returned to jail Wednesday pending a hearing next week on whether he violated his bail conditions while awaiting trial for manslaughter.