Limestone News

LEWISTON, Maine a ' State police say a high-speed chase on the Maine Turnpike ended when the car they were chasing crashed and burst into flames, killing the driver.

The town will use more than $4.2 million in stimulus funds to make wastewater system improvements in the municipality.

Vernon Baker, 32, of Woodland , arrested in connection with Caribou stabbing on Friday, Nov.

With the end of another campaign season, it's time to recognize those who may not have been successful in influencing voters, but were clear winners in eliciting derisive snorts.

Although disappointed by the City Council's decision, City Manager Tom Stevens said late last week he would not pursue any further legal avenues to request that the council reconsider recruiting a new city manager.

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PRESQUE ISLE, Maine - While the chairman of the Presque Isle City Council said Thursday that the board is grateful to City Manager Tom Stevens and what he has done for the city for the past 17 years, he said that councilors want the city to "move into the 21st century." That, council Chairman Ed Nickerson said, is why the council has decided not to ...

AUGUSTA : The Maine Arts Commission has named the 2010 Traditional Arts Masters.

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' The Maine Arts Commission has named five Maine artists, including a woodcarver from Limestone and a Penobscot basketmaker from Exeter, as 2010 Traditional Arts Masters.

Population: 1900: 3,770 1910: 6,777 1920: 8,576 1930: 10,340 1940: 10,230 1950: 9,954 1960: 10,005 1970: 9,363 1980: 8,240 1990: 7,078 2000: 6,472 2008: 6,310 Source: Census) School enrollment 1970: 2,473 1980: 1,495 1990: 1,080 2000: 1,033 Number of jobs in town 1990: 4,158 1997: 3,576 Drop: 14 percent Limestone has been there.

By Dr. Erik Steele "Twenty years now, where'd they go? Twenty years now, I don't know.

A U.S. Air Force parachute found near Nollesemic Lake in this remote part of the Katahdin region might have come from a C-45 cargo plane that crashed in 1956, state police said Monday.

18--PRESQUE ISLE, Maine -- Even if you did not get to the concerts, most people who live in Aroostook County can remember the three Phish music festivals that took place in Limestone in 1997, 1998 and 2003.

PORTLAND a ' Radical changes could be in store for the 50-student Peaks Island Elementary School, considered by many islanders the life-blood of the community.

A hearing that had been scheduled for this month to determine whether a Limestone teenager will be tried as a juvenile or an adult in connection with the April death of his 3-month-old daughter has been postponed.

Angela Welch of the WGCC was in a tie for 21st with 16.5 points, while Janice Hughes, also of the WGCC, was in a tie for 53rd two two points.

Officials in this community on the fringe of the North Maine Woods want to create an outdoor leadership academy, possibly a charter school that would attract students from throughout the country.

BELFAST : While many of their neighbors are strolling the beaches or enjoying the quiet of the Maine woods this summer, a group of people from the Belfast United Methodist Church will be building wheelchair ramps, repairing roofs and doing other home-repair jobs for residents of the Machias area who can't afford to have those chores taken care of ...

ROCKLAND : Beginning Tuesday, July 7, the Farnsworth Art Museum will offer historic walking tours of downtown Rockland, led by Janice Kasper, the museum's curator of historic sites.

Math teacher Pete Pedersen directs studentsa attention to the dry-erase board as they crunch numbers in an accelerated advanced math class at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics recently.