Mars Hill News

U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that Maine is receiving investments for projects designed to protect public health by improving water quality and public sanitation services.

MARS HILL, Maine a ' Maine Drug Enforcement Agency officers have arrested and charged two Mars Hill men and a Florida man with smuggling large amounts of oxycodone into Aroostook County where it then was sold.

Mars Hill, ME - AspenCross Financial Group, a community-based financial advisory, investment management and employee benefits firm, is pleased to announce that Eldon F. Lawrence, a resident of Mars Hill, Maine, has joined the firm as a Senior Associate.

A plea for the state to put a moratorium on large-scale wind power projects reflects sincere and perhaps well-founded concerns, but it is the wrong step for government to take.

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' A Maine man who pleaded guilty to attacking a Pittston father and daughter with a machete has been ordered to serve 50 years in prison.

A Mars Hill woman facing state charges of child sexual abuse pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to production of child pornography.

An environmental group is announcing plans today to oppose a 48-turbine wind-generation project proposed in Highland Plantation, in the shadow of the Bigelow Preserve in rural Somerset County.

Are we "expendable"? John Wayne made a movie about the sacrifices PT boats made to secure victory.

A new state law aimed at speeding up wind energy development will be tested for the first time today in an appeal before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Late last year, voters in Dixmont approved an ordinance to regulate wind power development.

A handful of local municipal officials and a few residents got an advance look Tuesday night at what kind of effect a large-scale wind farm might have on their town, which has fewer than 400 year-round residents.

An Old Town company will design and oversee the creation of a $625,000 walking and biking trail along Millinocket Stream slated for completion by November.

With the announcement that longtime District Attorney Michael Povich plans to retire, multiple candidates are emerging in the contest to take over the office.

As the debate over wind farms intensifies in towns across Maine, state lawmakers are considering a proposal that would guarantee minimum tax payments to communities near the enormous and oftentimes controversial turbines.

Julie Bragdon-Carr, alleged Mars Hill sex offender. BANGOR, Maine a ' Mars Hill woman facing state charges of child sexual abuse pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court to production of child pornography.

LEWISTON, Maine a ' A prominent Lewiston businessman has been ordered to pay $1.25 million to a Massachusetts man who accused him of sexual abuse.

I am updating the forecast to bring light snow into eastern parts of Aroostook County from about midnight Saturday night until about midday Sunday.

In most parts of Aroostook County on Monday, it was not possible to make a snowman, but there was enough snow and slush to send unprepared drivers skidding off roads in parts of the region.

A 17-year-old from Mars Hill has been arrested and charged with several crimes stemming from a series of car burglaries and a home invasion earlier in the week.

Although opponents of Maine's school consolidation law failed to make their case to the voters earlier this month, members of the Legislature's Education Committee hope they can make some changes in the law to accommodate the critics.