Mars Hill News

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.

Firefighters from six communities were on the scene of a major warehouse fire on Rice Street, a side street off this community's main street, for more than 13 hours this weekend.

Two groups came to the State House on Monday to ask the state to slow down wind power development, which they say is gobbling up environmentally sensitive mountain ridges for questionable results.

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A home on Shorey Road was heavily damaged Thursday afternoon after a fire ripped through the dwelling just before 1 p.m. Stuart Craig, first lieutenant for the Mars Hill Fire Department, said Friday that the two-story dwelling was owned by Dana York.

Mike Breau, left, collects signatures and hands out information on a petition calling for a special town meeting to act on passing a moratorium on the development of wind farms in the corridor of Mountain Valley High School Tuesday night prior to a panel discussion on the energy producer.

Ever wonder where the sun first shines in the state of Maine? We dispatched observors to West Quoddy, Cadilac, Katahdin, and Mars Hill to find out.

A trash truck driver prepares to dump his load of municipal solid waste at Penobscot Energy Recovery Company in Orrington recently.

Among the mountains of Maine and offshore sites in the Gulf of Maine, there are many places where wind energy companies are thinking about erecting turbines to generate electricity for the region.