Gray News

YORK, Maine - The Planning Board on Thursday accepted the new $8.4 million police station and connector road plan for preliminary review, starting its analysis of the town's biggest building project since the construction of the York Public Library more than 10 years ago.

A new open-road tolling plaza on Interstate 95 between Portland and Auburn is a step toward all-electronic tolling, according to Maine Turnpike Authority Executive Director Peter Mills.

From left, Ernie Forgione, of Gray, helps Donald Ketcham of Farmington, with the aid of Don Ware, of Norway, as they ski on the Nordic trails at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester last month.

If Androscoggin County wants to create an emergency dispatching hub - one place to answer 911 calls and send help - it can be done.

While about 2 inches of rain falling on the Seacoast last Friday, crews from the town's Department of Public Works lowered the Great Dam as a precaution.

Katrina Seeley, a senior class leader at Poland Regional High School, signed a pledge promising to abstain from texting and driving after a representative from AT&T visited the school to talk about teens who paid the ultimate price for texting behind the wheel.

While only 1.33 inches of rain have fallen on the Seacoast this morning, crews from the town's Department of Public Works have lowered the Great Dam as a precaution.

A Gray man was arrested at his workplace here Monday and charged with having sexual contact with a minor at his home on Christmas Day, police said.

According to Michael Cempa, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, a light snow will begin falling after midnight.