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Jose Leiva/Sun Journal Mark Plummer of Manchester and 11 time Maine Armature Champion plays a practice round at the Augusta Country Club, SPTplummer2P0705.jpg Jose Leiva/Sun Journal Mark Plummer of Manchester and 11 time Maine Armature Champion reacts to some ribbing from a fellow golfer during a practice round at the Augusta Country Club, Mark ...

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.

WINTHROP : The Winthrop Police Department has moved into a completely renovated building with up-to-date facilities housed in a building, the shell of which dates back to 1855.

To explain the dauntingly massive, multi-faceted, all-encompassing reach of the U.S. health care system, Everett Page pointed to the term "reification." It means regarding something abstract as a physical, material thing.

A Miracle is something that happens that only God can perform. Some miracles are immediate-fast. Others are slow moving.

There comes a point in a relationship when the guy becomes content with the way things are.

KENNEBEC COUNTY : At 4:36 p.m. June 12, a caller on Dinsmore Road in Sidney complained that a motorcyclist was ruining his driveway by doing donuts in it.

By the time Warden Jeffrey Merrill revealed on June 3 that three Maine State Prison employees had been put on paid leave as a result of a state police investigation of an inmate's death in April, probes of corruption and other issues at the 925-inmate lockup had already cast a harsh light on its management.

The chance to get ahead in a brutal job market could come in the form of a dump truck for inmates at a local pre-release center.

MANCHESTER : Elaine Fuller didn't know it at the time but an ad she saw in the late 1940s would change her life and eventually lead her to Maine.

AUGUSTA : Fewer than 300 local voters turned out Tuesday to pass the city's $27 million school budget.

AUGUSTA : An employee of the Fayette Town Office reported at 9:40 a.m. May 27 that pranksters had stolen some of the town's street signs.

HOULTON, Maine a ' Over the years, Hammond artists Glenn and Diane Hines have created several statues that are on display throughout the state.

AUGUSTA : A Waterville woman was swerving as she drove on Route 27 in Pittston, according to a report filed at 5:51 p.m. May 21.

BELFAST : bus to Portland, planes to New York->Bangkok->Chiang Mei->Hangzhou->Shanghai->Beijing to New York to Bangor then a bus back to Belfast.

AUGUSTA : At 12:27 p.m. May 14, a resident of Birch Drive in Sidney complained that someone had been driving on his lawn and causing damage to it.

CAPITAL AREA : ARLINGTON GRANGE 528 The first supper of the season will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at the grange hall, located at 505 Cooper Rd., Whitefield.

CAPITAL AREA : MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CHURCH The church, at 21 Readfield Road in Manchester, will hold its Spring Sale and Luncheon from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, May 1 and again from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Come early and enjoy a doughnut and coffee in Manchester Community Church's Country Kitchen CafA© and stay for lunch with Jackie & ...

Apr. 27--MANCHESTER -- Some 27,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers are without cable and Internet service following a fire this morning at the intersection of Western Avenue and Granite Hill Road.

AUGUSTA : At 6:10 p.m. Sunday, a woman on Main Street, Wayne, reported that her landlord had gone into her apartment without permission while she was out and her cat was missing.