Machias News

Bill Green has been travelling the back roads and byways of Maine for NEWS CENTER for more than 25 years.

Veteran reporter Diana Graettinger, who covered much of Washington County for the Bangor Daily News for more than two decades, has announced her retirement effective today.

Despite being in the midst of a recession, despite being in the middle of Washington County, and despite being hours from any major city, two music lovers have opened up a music supply store on Route 182.

A $20,000 planning grant from the Maine Department of Conservation will help Machias officials study the feasibility of a river walk, part of a major downtown revitalization program.

After July 10, Down East Community Hospital will lose the ability to collect Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements after the hospital failed to correct numerous deficiencies cited in a recent investigation.

MACHIAS, Maine - After being told by her daughter that a man in their home was an armed intruder, a 77-year-old woman pulled a gun on him and sent him running, according to court documents.

Basel Soukarieh, owner of the Four Corners Shopping Center in Columbia, says it is vital to his business philosophy to keep the money he makes and his customers spend in Washington County.

A Williston man suspected of drugging and molesting a 13-year-old girl before fleeing to Maine has waived extradition.

The wife of a Sumner man accused of killing two men in West Paris last summer testified at his murder trial Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court.

A 46-year-old Lubec woman allegedly has stolen nearly $30,000 from an East Machias gasoline station and convenience store, Sheriff Donnie Smith said Wednesday.

The central legal principle of the National Labor Relations Act, or NLRA, is to provide workers in the private sector with the democratic right to organize unions in the workplace.

While May weather disappointed Mainers from Kittery to Machias, environmentally speaking, May was a wonderful month - for reducing mercury production, for advocates of solar grids across the state, and, closest to home, for York County folks who had the opportunity last week to learn how the Gulf of Maine has the potential to become the Saudi ...

Dorothy Estey Chase, widow of Martin G. Chase, of Portsmouth, formerly of York Beach, Maine, died Monday, June 1, 2009, at the Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth.

Three people accused as accomplices in a string of burglaries and thefts that stretched from Lubec to Machias appeared in Washington County Superior Court on Thursday.

Rep. Jayne Crosby Giles of Machias Savings Bank and the Rockland CareerCenter were among four Midcoast Champions honored for their efforts by Women, Work and Community as part of its 30th Anniversary celebration this spring at Kennebec Tavern in Bath.

Sussette Welzant of the U.S. Navy and Kristin Tripp of Searsport District High School practice using an automatic external defibrillator during a training session run by the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross last month at the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center in Bangor.

Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith in a May 29 e-mail to the Bangor Daily News accused the District Attorney's Office of allowing three felony suspects to walk out of jail this week without being arraigned in Machias District Court.

The state's scallop advisory council is proposing to close nine areas along the coast during the 2009-10 winter scallop fishing season.

Bridgette Koch, a 16-year-old who attends Machias Memorial High School, is a gifted student, a good community member and a loving daughter and sister.

The Machias Valley News Observer is ready to launch its own Web site - www.machiasnews.com - according to editor Karen Hinson.