Hampden News

Area veterans were treated to a Fourth of July chicken barbecue in City Park, protected from a Saturday afternoon downpour at the Wilma Moses Pavilion.

It's a new beginning for Masons in Maine. More than five years ago, a massive fire wiped out their historic hall in downtown Bangor.

The Bangor Yacht Club opened officially on June 29, 1909. Bangoreans already had a canoe club, a bicycle club and a horse club a century ago.

A task force made up of regional health workers and law enforcement officials brainstormed Friday about how to get the word out about the dangers of underage drinking.

Whata TMs canceled and whata TMs not? Canceled Below is a partial list of local paving projects that have been canceled for 2009-10 due to lack of funding: a ' 8.8 miles of Route 69 in Carmel, Hampden and Newburgh a ' 3.1 miles of Williams Road in Corinna and Newport a ' 7 miles of Route 177 in Blue Hill and Penobscot a ' 5.5 miles of Route 137 in ...

Mrs. Barbara Bush announced today that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy's Maine Family Literacy Initiative has awarded $445,000 supporting family literacy programs in 21 Maine communities.

There's an old saying, "you are what you eat." Our physical bodies are fueled with what we choose to feed it - so, when we put on extra weight or are a little cranky, maybe we should take a closer look at our food choices .

When the University of Maine Cooperative Extension approached officials in Hampden about installing a rain garden outside the town office, folks there jumped at the chance.

Students in Hampden say they are fed up with drug use in their schools and community and they are working to do something about it.

AUGUSTA : The Maine Department of Transportation will close two rest areas along I-95 in Pittsfield on Wednesday, June 17, and privatize the custodial services at five other rest areas along I-95 and I-295, all of which will remain open.

It had all the makings of a lousy day for the teams competing in the Eastern Maine team tennis championships.

HAMPDEN, Maine a ' Residents in Newburgh and Hampden a ' two of the three towns that make up SAD 22 a ' approved a proposed $23.4 million school budget on Tuesday for fiscal year 2010.

The sunshine, music, food and fashion were like a magnet Saturday, drawing people from all over the region to downtown for the second annual West Market Festival.

The town of Hampden is hosting a bone marrow drive on Friday to help a local man who is fighting cancer.

Organizers are getting ready for two separate bone marrow donor registration drives in the next week in Maine.

Maine public health officials are on alert for new cases of whooping cough and E. coli food poisoning.

The city's renowned troop greeters gathered at Bangor International Airport on Sunday to celebrate their sixth year of supporting military members deployed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Soap Box Derby 2009 is underway. The Derby will take place Friday and Saturday, . The trial runs will be held on Friday beginning at 11:00 AM.

HAMPDEN : On the Coldbrook Road, there was a recent buzz of activity in the old stone house at the Route 202 intersection.

A man from Newburgh has been indicted in a case tied to the death of a teenager from Hampden.