Levant News

ROCKPORT, Maine - A stream of hungry people poured into the new Farmers Fare cafe and marketplace Thursday afternoon to enjoy a free community "Feastival." "It's been amazing," said Teri Thompson-Christie, who co-founded the marketplace and cafe with her husband, Peter Christie.

Two motorists were taken to a Bangor hospital Wednesday evening for injuries they suffered in a head-on collision on Riverside Drive, about a mile off Route 9. Injured were Debra Donelan, 53, of Levant, and Timothy Libby, 23, of Old Town, Deputy Daren Mason of the Penobscot County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday night.

The following divorces were recorded in Fifth District Court in Belfast in October.

Several area fire departments responded to a blaze that tore through a Hermon business early Monday evening.

Firefighters and trucks from Hermon, Hampden, Levant and Bangor surround the Carmel Electric building in Freedon Industrial Park in Hermon as they battle a blaze on Monday November 9, 2009.

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Elwood Mason began his farming career at the age of 7A1 2, milking cows on the family farm.

Children's museums are a place where kids -- and their parents -- are encouraged to touch anything and everything.

The co-owner of the Levant Corner Store is asking for help in locating the man who robbed them two nights ago.

A man who broke into the Levant Corner Store early Sunday took out three surveillance cameras before doing so, but he didn't get them all and was caught on tape stealing more than $700 in cigarettes from the store.

The Carmel Auto Rest Park, which closed in the late 1950s, was resurrected and in full swing in downtown Bangor Saturday, marking the 72nd anniversary of the Central Street shooting of crime boss Al Brady and the 175th anniversary of the founding of the city of Bangor.

Take the EMMC Auxiliary's annual kitchen tour on Sept. 26 and you'll see why rooms like this one in Veazie are the centers of attraction Ellen Flagg watches as Nebbie, her chocolate Lab, greets a photographer in the kitchen of the 160-year-old farmhouse she shares with her husband, Bruce, in Veazie.

Treat yourself to a plate of hummus, pita hot from the oven, and an icy beer at an outdoor cafe in this pulsing city and you'll understand how different hummus is from the versions that have been around in the in the United States since the hippie days.

While the rain this summer may have hurt some crops, experts say the apple crop is in great shape.

Aug. 28--HERMON, Maine -- If not for the smoke detectors in her Swan Road home, Jennifer Stalter says that she and her toddler might not have survived a fire that began in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

A mother and her baby escaped from their burning home Thursday morning...all thanks to a working smoke detector.

ETNA, Maine a ' Damage to a mobile home involved in a fire Thursday was limited to about $1,000, thanks to quick response from firefighters from three towns.

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents were busy on Wednesday arresting three men in two separate drug-related incidents, Garry Higgins, MDEA's supervisory special agent for the Bangor-based North Central Regional Taskforce, said Thursday.

Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents were busy on Wednesday arresting three men in two separate drug-related incidents, Garry Higgins, MDEA's supervisory special agent for the Bangor-based North Central Regional Taskforce, said Thursday.

Naples ME Scott McDaniel looked high and low for a way around race leader Gary Norris in Sundays' 40 lap Pro All Stars Series Mod feature at Unity Raceway, and when the white flag unfurled the young racer from Livermore Falls Maine found a way by Norris to capture his first PASS Mod series feature win.