Fryeburg News

A day trip into the Gulf of Maine offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the ocean giants who summer just off our coastline.

Three men who were gunned down during a botched robbery in a Conway store two years ago are being remembered.

KENNEBUNK, Maine a ' The father of a New York Times reporter who escaped captivity in Afghanistan says he had to keep his sona TMs abduction secret for seven months.

Terry Swier, of Mecosta County, Mich., demonstrates outside Nestle Waters North America headquarters in Greenwich, Conn.

Portland Museum of Art Between Plan and Elevation: The Work of George Lloyd. Architectural spaces filled with light and energy are the focus of a new exhibition of work by Portland artist George Lloyd.

One of the two journalists held over seven months by the Taliban in Pakistan is David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter with ties to the Kennebunks.

A reporter from Maine has escaped from the Taliban in Afghanistan. David Rohde fled his captors on Friday, along with an Afghan reporter.

Preliminary state data indicates that 61 of Maine's 130 high schools and private academies will equip their students with Apple laptops under the state's Learning Technology Initiative.

The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society has seen a dramatic drop in the number of cats brought into the shelter, which the director credits to a low-cost spay-neuter program offered over the past year.

The following arrests were recorded at the Oxford County Jail: Troy W. Masterman, 33, of Waterford, May 29, violation of bail conditions, no bail listed as of June 1, Oxford County Sheriff's Office.

Local police said an officer was assaulted Sunday after responding to a call at a local ice cream shop.

Police and the Saco River Recreational Council have new plans to curb the littering and heavy drinking that often occurs on the Saco River during the summer.

May 22, 23: BAR MILLS , Maine's champion fiddlers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Saco River Grange Hall, 29 Salmon Falls Road.

Kevin Flynn will be performing at The Comedy Connection in Portland on Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23.

The 18-year-old driver accused of hitting and killing a woman who was walking along the road with a flash-light pleaded, "not guilty" to charges of manslaughter, aggravated OUI and leaving the scene of an accident Friday in Oxford County Superior Court.

LINCOLNVILLE : Olivia Karin Blake and Kennedy Grace Blake were born on May 5, 2009, at Penobscot Bay Medical Center to Danielle Mills Blake and Dr.

Hannah Groom and Shannon Episcopo were due to return from a hike in the White Mountains Tuesday afternoon.

PORTLAND a ' Patricia Quinn knows exactly how to bring the Amtrak Downeaster to Brunswick a ' and how to make sure the state continues paying its share of the passenger rail service's cost.

The District Attorney's Office has dismissed assault charges against five individuals in connection with an incident in Fryeburg last year, because the victim is not cooperating.

After years of delay while the issue was tied up in the court, Poland Spring has begun work on a $2.1 million spring water pumping station off U.S. 302 in Fryeburg.