Easton News

Presque Isle Deputy Fire Chief Rich Wark at the firehouse. Wark and all other firefighters on duty Thursday, were surprised to hear that Timothy MacFarline was the person who allegedly set the fire at the Northeastern Packaging Company warehouse last month.

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

A volunteer firefighter has been arrested for starting a fire that destroyed a warehouse in Presque Isle on Friday night.

Mother Nature smiled on the Blue Hill Fair this year, providing a perfect long weekend of sunny weather that boosted attendance at the fair.

Martha J. Gladman, 73, 44 Raydon Road Extension, was traveling on Route 1 in the same lane of travel as Roy in her 1992 Ford sedan, and allegedly did not see the Volkswagen stopped.

Rilla Cecelia Manzer died in the early hours of Wednesday, July 15, 2009, just over 100 years from the day she was born in Glassville.

Rilla Cecelia Manzer died in the early hours of Wednesday, July 15, 2009, just over 100 years from the day she was born in Glassville.

Farmers in southern and central Maine have already reported cases of late blight in potato and tomato crops.

ROCKPORT : Dog waste has filled trash cans at Rockport parks, especially at the harbor, and the town's public works department is suggesting pet owners start hauling their own pet feces away.

Freelance journalist Mark Arsen-ault of Easton, Mass., stands atop wreckage of the tail section of the military transport jet that crashed on Fort Mountain in Baxter State Park in 1944.

State police say they're investigating the theft of copper grounding wire from utility poles along a 14-mile stretch in northern Maine.

Officials at the National Weather Service office in Caribou said Tuesday afternoon that a storm on Sunday produced two tornado funnel clouds and was responsible for damaging trees and structures in parts of Aroostook County.