Millinocket News

Maine's chief justice said Thursday that she is hopeful the judicial branch can find ways to weather the next round of deep budget cuts without closing courthouses in rural areas of the state.

Inspector Ed Archer from the Maine State Fire Marshal's Office picks through the remains of a house at 157 Pattagumpus Road in Medway on Thursday.

The State Fire Marshal's Office says a man has been arrested and charged with arson for a series of fires in Medway.

State investigators are probing whether an arson that destroyed an abandoned house on Pattagumpus Road early Thursday is connected to at least three other fires in town that they say also were set intentionally.

Firefighters were called Sunday night to two adjacent fires, one of which gutted an abandoned home, and a state investigator said Monday they are being investigated.

Fire investigators will be in Medway Monday morning, trying to figure out what sparked a fire at an abandoned house Sunday night.

Officer Kevin Ingersoll resigned from the Police Department effective Nov. 1 for personal reasons, the town manager said Tuesday.

Several hundred people cheered past and present veterans at a ceremony to dedicate the 18th memorial stone at Veterans Memorial Park on Wednesday afternoon.

Brookfield Renewable Power has bid to supply electricity to the state's utilities from a biomass boiler it hopes to install at its local paper mill, a next step among several needed to restart the mill, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Editor and publisher Kevin Tenggren intends to have the next issue of the Lincoln News on the stands and in mailboxes on time next Thursday, he said Friday.

Fire swept through the offices of the Lincoln News on Thursday, Nov. 6. Lincoln Fire Chief Phil Dawson told the Bangor Daily News that the building which contained the printing press, computers and files for the weekly newspaper appeared to be a total loss.

Medway businessman James B. Lee has been placed under house arrest for violating bail while awaiting trial for manslaughter.

The results for today's election are in, and Millinocket had a 59% turnout. Of the 3,599 registered voters, 2,119 voted in today's election, including more than 375 absentee ballots.

Although disappointed by the City Council's decision, City Manager Tom Stevens said late last week he would not pursue any further legal avenues to request that the council reconsider recruiting a new city manager.

Medway businessman James B. Lee, who is awaiting trial on a charge of manslaughter, was returned to jail Thursday because the state was unable to complete his bail violation hearing before the close of the court's business day.

Residents at Freeses assisted living facility in Bangor got a chance to meet the people who are now managing their facility.

Maine State Police believe the two Millinocket men they arrested Monday night for burglary of a camp on Mattaseunk Lake in Molunkus Township in Aroostook County committed more than 30 other camp break-ins in a four-county area.

Police Officer Kevin Ingersoll hasn't been on duty since September, but Town Manager Eugene Conlogue and Police Chief Donald Bolduc weren't saying why on Wednesday.

Taxpayers likely will get a tax break of about $1.30 per $1,000 of taxable property in the first-half municipal tax bills they will receive late next week, Assessor Michael Noble said Thursday.

Jason Levesque, candidate in Maine's 2nd Congressional District, challenged Rep.