Farmingdale News

ROCKPORT : Bay Chamber Concerts will present a free concert, on Friday, July 10, at 7:00 p.m. at the Rockport Opera House.

HALLOWELL : An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at criminal proceedings.

GARDINER : The Johnson Hall Whatever Festival Talent Show on Saturday, June 20, beat out the weather odds and presented 20 great acts to a large, admiring audience on the banks of the Kennebec River in Gardiner.

KENNEBEC COUNTY : At 4:36 p.m. June 12, a caller on Dinsmore Road in Sidney complained that a motorcyclist was ruining his driveway by doing donuts in it.

MANCHESTER : Elaine Fuller didn't know it at the time but an ad she saw in the late 1940s would change her life and eventually lead her to Maine.

AUGUSTA : Fewer than 300 local voters turned out Tuesday to pass the city's $27 million school budget.

AUGUSTA : A Waterville woman was swerving as she drove on Route 27 in Pittston, according to a report filed at 5:51 p.m. May 21.

HALLOWELL : A woman at 2:45 p.m. May 21 expressed concern that a mother duck and her chicks were trying to cross Water Street, near the boat landing, and she was worried a vehicle might run over the family of waterfowl.

The following area events are planned for Monday, May 25, unless otherwise noted: Belgrade 10 a.m. Parade followed by memorial service at the Old Town Hall.

GARDINER : At 8:49 p.m. Monday, a woman returned to her Central Street home and heard something in her bedroom.

AUGUSTA : At 11:34 a.m. Monday, a man reported that he had found a box full of bones on Fire Road 25 in China.

HALLOWELL : A Pleasant Street man at 2:14 p.m. Monday reported that his cat had been missing for more than 20 hours, so police put out a a oemissing cat report.a Fortunately, the feline returned home the next morning.

CAPITAL AREA : Here's a look back at what was happening in the capital area more than a decade ago, taken from the pages of the Capital Weekly, April 1998: Emily Rines of South Gardiner and 14 of her University of New Hampshire classmates spent spring break building houses for poor families in Georgia with Habitat for Humanity.

HALLOWELL : The Kennebec River Rail Trail has become a tourist attraction. Clayton Putnam of Livermore Falls and five other members of his family, three children and two adults, journeyed from Androscoggin County to Hallowell to ride their bikes on the rail trail.

AUGUSTA : At 6:10 p.m. Sunday, a woman on Main Street, Wayne, reported that her landlord had gone into her apartment without permission while she was out and her cat was missing.

WEST GARDINER : The meat at Fullera s Market is so good that some folks buy a montha s worth of it at the market, waiting for the truckload sales when prices are especially low.

AUGUSTA : At 7:16 a.m. April 1, on Pond Road, Manchester, a suspicious husband reported a pair of shady-looking guys whom his wife barely knew asked to use the phone.

AUGUSTA : The Legislature's Education Committee has refused to change or repeal the state's new school consolidation law, thus opening the door for a statewide repeal vote.

GARDINER : A high-speed chase that began at 1:11 a.m. April 4 on Maine Avenue, Farmingdale, ended in the arrest of a 34-year-old Farmingdale man.

AUGUSTA : A disgruntled man on Burke Street, Farmingdale, complained at 3:45 p.m. March 25 that a couple of destructive youths had broken a window in his garage by throwing ice at it.