Gardiner News

The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance is pleased to announce that the second annual Award For Distinguished Achievement will be presented to Jennifer Bunting, the publisher at the Gardiner-based Tilbury House, Publishers.

Augusta: Saturday, 11 a.m., East Side Boat Landing. Belgrade: Monday, 10 a.m., Old Town House.

American flags have been mounted on telephone poles across the city in time for a Memorial Day parade on Monday.

State investigators are trying to determine what sparked more than a dozen grass and wood fires Monday morning in Richmond and Gardiner.

Natural gas, whoever provides it, will be the main heating and cooking fuel at MaineGeneral Medical Center's new hospital in north Augusta.

A group of volunteers is planting trees this week to uphold a deed's provision that rows of trees must be maintained at the city's public park on Brunswick Avenue.

Keith J. Bragg, 40, of Livermore Falls, two counts of operating while license suspended or revoked, March 14 and April 8, both in Monmouth; $750 in fines.

9, 2011, in Gardiner; three-year jail sentence, with all but 60 days suspended, two years of probation, $400 fine.

It won't be decided until June 23 whether Hall-Dale schools will keep two full-time nurses and a foreign language program for elementary students.

In his OpEd piece in the BDN on Wednesday, May 2, Sam Adolphsen of the Maine Heritage Policy Center criticized the University of Maine for jacking up tuition costs by 30 percent while "university salaries were up 29 percent." I can't speak for other parts of the University of Maine, but I can assert that the faculty of some departments in my former ... (more)

The city's emerging theme of larger-than-life metal sculptures downtown and at the Waterfront Park is continuing this evening with the unveiling of another piece in Johnson Park on Water Street.

Councilors have decided against holding a referendum vote on a proposal to ban the retail sale and use of fireworks within city limits.

Jacie Twist, of Gardiner, reaches up and touches hands with Dierks Bentley during his concert Thursday night at the Augusta Civic.

Chantel Madina, 20, of Gardiner, who is a few months pregnant, was taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta as a precaution, said Sgt.

The Rev. Kevin Martin, who serves St. Michael Parish in the Augusta area, has been appointed to serve as the Catholic Chaplain for a local chapter of COURAGE, a worldwide spiritual support group is being set up in Maine.