Monmouth News

A Monmouth man was ordered Wednesday to serve 30 months in prison for a series of thefts and a burglary earlier this year that netted him $24,557 in cash and valuables.

The two Democratic candidates who are squaring off in the June primary vote for House District 82 differ in what they would like to accomplish if elected to represent the communities of Winthrop and Readfield.

When the Shakespeare Theatre Company calls, you listen. Dawn McAndrews listened and jumped at the chance to move to Washington, D.C., to work for one of the most storied theater companies in the United States.

Lewiston: Sale and use are generally prohibited, though use is allowed in the city's firearms discharge zone on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and July 4. Rumford: Residents will vote June 12 on a proposal to allow the use of fireworks and the regulated sale of fireworks.

Beverly Girouard, 74, was taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston with what were believed to be non life-threatening injuries, said Monmouth Police Chief Kevin Mulherin.

When Tim Simons was a teenager working at a video store in Winthrop, he sometimes would get starstruck when actors from the nearby Theater at Monmouth would come into the store.

Keith J. Bragg, 40, of Livermore Falls, two counts of operating while license suspended or revoked, March 14 and April 8, both in Monmouth; $750 in fines.

But then the fuse reaches the coil. In less than 60 seconds nearly 16,000 explode in a controlled mayhem of sound, smoke and light.

It's a new comedy, set in Maine, about an overbearing father and an upstart teenage son brought together by a zombie apocalypse.

Ending a relationship is almost always painful, but it remains to be seen just how much it would hurt for the community to break up with Regional School Unit 2. Voters will decide next month whether they want to begin the withdrawal process, but the few dozen residents who turned out for Wednesday's public hearing learned they will have to make ... (more)

Congressional campaigners in Kennebec County say they don't see the state redistricting changes taking effect with June's primary election having much of an impact at the ballot box.