Fairfield News

A man accused of robbing a credit union in Skowhegan almost three years ago was in federal court in Bangor on Tuesday.

It's not just any home; it's the place she loves most, in rural Winslow, where the birds sing at her window and she falls asleep to the sounds of frogs and crickets.

And in making the announcement, officials revealed the new name of the property that the college acquired in January: Harold Alfond Campus.

In February 1834, a fight broke out about damming the Kennebec River. Petitions poured into the state Legislature, some predicting that the "business of the whole Kennebec County will be brought into bondage for all coming time." At issue was the largest dam project ever conceived in the United States.

A state human rights panel on Monday unanimously sided with a woman who said a Hallowell-based business discriminated against her because of race, color, national origin and ancestry.

The boy, Ethan Evers, of Albion, was driving on a dirt section of Barnes Road Thursday evening when the car left the road, Department of Public Safety Spokesman Steve McCausland said.

An underwater search for a driver who crashed into Martin Stream on Saturday was suspended on Tuesday night, Fairfield police Sgt.

State education officials had anticipated letters from four groups -- proposing a statewide virtual charter school, a primary school in Cornville, a high school in Portland and a conversion of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Fairfield to a charter school -- but they weren't expecting one that came in for a school in the Piscataquis County ... (more)

Six companies that demonstrate "a high level of commitment to their community, employees and to manufacturing or service excellence" were presented with a 2012 Governor's Award for Business Excellence on Monday.

FAIRFIELD, Maine -- Watching as Wardens search the Kennebec River, one family is hoping to find a body -- and find closure.

Audience members listen as Miss Christabell Rose, a Civil War re-enactor, describes the circa-1862 dress modeled by K Hartsgrove of Newport.

Fairfield Primary School, in Toton Lane, Stapleford, was one of 300 groups that claimed a share of the prize last year in the Post's Cash For Your Community campaign.

A 24-year-old New Hampshire man was arrested on cocaine trafficking charges Monday after a month-long investigation by area police.

CRASH: Driver Sharon Roderick of Fairfield is treated on a gurney after being removed from her vehicle that crashed through a wall and into the Darrell's Pizza building in Waterville on Monday.

Fairfield - State funding cuts have hit Central Maine schools hard. Thursday night in Fairfield the school board from MSAD 49 asked local lawmakers to step in and help fix the problem.

Zeke Ames, 22, had "several warrants out for his arrest" for failing to report for a sentencing on a previous charge, Fairfield police Chief Joe Emery told the Bangor Daily News.

Adults and children who frequent the North Street Recreation area think banning smoking from city playgrounds is a great idea.