The Bangor Daily News was honored in six categories at the annual New England Newspaper and Press Association Better Newspaper Contest awards banquet Saturday night at the Park Plaza Hotel.

Ray Merrill, former Waterford Memorial School student and a father of three Waterford residents and grandfather of two, speaks to a proposal regarding the school Wednesday night.

Teacher, composer and vocal coach Maurice Finnell, who taught talent including Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Tyne Daly and Warren Beatty, died Jan.

Jessica Morrill, 30, of Harrison was driving this 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee when she became distracted, leading to the single-vehicle crash on Hayes Road in Norway on Sunday evening.

For the past 20 years Tim Harrison, editor of Lighthouse Digest, has been searching for photographs of lighthouses keepers and the family members that lived at lighthouses in an effort to save lighthouse history for future generations.

Selectmen unanimously appointed Philip M. Tarr on Monday to be the next town manager.

NORWAY a ' The Western Foothills Land Trust has purchased the historic John Roberts House and five-acre lot on the edge of the Roberts Farm Reserve on Pikes Hill.

Emergency responders examine damage caused by a fire at an Otisfield home Monday morning.

For the thirteenth straight year, a whimsical lighthouse painting, by Wells, Maine, artist Virginia Souza, will adorn the December cover of Lighthouse Digest, the Maine based national lighthouse news and history magazine.

Without vocalist Kristen Burkholder to keep them in line, the musicians of Agharta Jazz get silly.

In a Harold Pinter play, the things that lie beneath the surface are what actually are in the spotlight.

Bridgton: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 26 Old North Street at the old Town Hall. Three local questions: approval of a special amusement ordinance, a "pooper scooper" ordinance and a straw poll about fixing up the old Town Hall Casco, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Central Fire Station, one local question to allow the school board to issue bonds to renovate the Lakes ...

First Ever Natural Spring Water to be Bottled Straight from the Ground Without Filtration or Treatment Harrison, ME - Summit Spring , the bottled water company based out of Harrison, Maine that recently announced the release of RAW WATER, the first-ever spring water to be bottled directly from the source without any filtration or treatment ...

The Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School's Team Green designed and built a wind turbine that will power the lights on the school's signboard.

HARRISON a ' An Oxford Hills School District student threw a plastic soda bottle out of a school bus window Monday afternoon, prompting the driver of the struck car to try to board the bus once it stopped, a Cumberland County deputy said Tuesday.

Summit Spring , the bottled water company based out of the small town of Harrison, Maine, has announced the release of RAW WATER, the first ever spring water to be bottled directly from the source without any filtration, treatment, pumps or boreholes used in the process whatsoever.

PARIS a ' Selectmen voted Thursday to begin a search for a new town manager. The board approved a motion by Selectman Troy Ripley to advertise the position.

BLUE HILL : The Blue Hill Bay Gallery is featuring a fall inspired collection of paintings entitled "Autumn Splendor" with a reception, Saturday Oct.

A woman and her car took a ride into a lake in Harrison Saturday night. It happened just before 8pm at a boat launch off of Main Street.

Wet weather in the forecast has some vendors at the Cumberland County Fair worried.