East Millinocket News

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.

The Town Council wants to use regional funding to hire an economic development agent a day a week to promote economic development in the Katahdin region.

The Town Council and Town Manager Eugene Conlogue love the idea of sharing Katahdin Area Television with East Millinocket and Medway.

A bomb threat that forced evacuation of Mattanawcook Academy last week was a hoax that likely will result in criminal charges, interim Police Chief Phil Dawson said Tuesday.

Police are investigating the vandalism of the gravesite of an East Millinocket murder victim.

Joyce McLain was 16 years old when she was murdered. That was 29 years ago. Now, all these years later, both the site in East Millinocket where her body was found and the place where it was laid to rest, her gravesite, have been vandalized.

A Husson University student was summoned by police twice over the weekend, once on Saturday for allegedly stealing a wallet from a fellow student and again on Sunday after he allegedly tried to pick a fight with the student whose wallet he is accused of taking.

Lt. Lamont Ouellette of the East Millinocket Fire Department very seldom misses a weekend Mass in his home parish, Christ the Divine Mercy.

Four additional defendants pleaded guilty this week and two are scheduled to plead guilty today in U.S. District Court to being part of a drug conspiracy that funneled cocaine and other drugs from Costa Rica through Florida to Maine between January 2002 and November 2005.

All four of you should be ashamed of yourselves! You were elected by the people of this town who believed you would look out for their best interests.

Developer Matthew Polstein hasn't had much luck luring investors to his proposed $65 million ecotourism resort, but he is finishing the upgrade to his Twin Pine Camps establishment just outside Millinocket.

Isa Kuivanan, 15, of Millinocket watches as Katie Leavitt, 20, of Millinocket abruptly shoves ice cream into the mouth of her boyfriend, Toby Kidney of Millinocket, in front of Pins - N Cues on Thursday.