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Leaving Regional School Unit 2 would likely take months to complete, could deliver a substantial financial blow and would jeopardize the town's chances for a new middle school.

This is an undated handout photo of Devon Ayer, a former Monmouth Academy student who just returned from a month teaching Tanzania.

Communities on both sides of the Sabattus-Lewiston town line are pulling together to help a local family who lost everything but the clothes on their backs after fire ripped through their Sabattus mobile home on Saturday.

Three subjects were summoned at an unspecified location in Augusta for selling liquor or imitation liquor to a minor.

Fire Chief Andre Poulin said nobody was hurt and the home was not damaged when the chimney fire broke out around 5:30 p.m., at 61 Neal Lane.

A man called police Jan. 22 when he heard gunshots and shouting. Officers responded to the area on Bearce Road and discovered a neighbor target shooting while someone else was inside the residence scolding a dog.

Bring your own cross-country skis, snowshoes and sleds, and spend the afternoon exploring the 360-acre conservation property.

A trial began Tuesday for a 63-year-old city man accused of setting fire to his Federal Street home nearly two years ago in an attempt collect insurance money.

Jeff Fairfield, left, portrays Charlie Brown and Dustin Shepherd-Bussiere is his dog Snoopy in the Monmouth Community Players' production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." Snoopy's song about the joys of suppertime is a show highlight.

Nobody was hurt in the blaze, but Monmouth Kwik Shop co-owner Kim Willette said her business had taken a hit.

With the price of oil increasing and help from the government reduced from previous years, two local women are trying to bridge the gap.

The Maine Heritage Policy Center on Tuesday released a list of vendors its says Maine State Housing Authority has paid over the past 13 years.

Monmouth - A Maine paperboard manufacturing plant is shutting down, putting nearly two dozen employees out of work.

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Justin A. Legendre, 19, of Mt. Vernon, was summoned for harassment, operating after suspension, and driving to endanger, according to police reports.

Nearly two dozen employees at Newark Paperboard Products learned Friday that they will be out of work within the next two months.