Manchester News

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.

The Town of Fore's and Fly's So, you're watching the budget this year. You've decided that you can't afford a getaway to the Hamptons and you are just Bar Harbor'ed out and need an escape from the tourist traps.