Newfield News

Newfield, home of the Willowbrook Museum Village. The museum has more than two dozen buildings, including farmhouses, barns, and an original one-room schoolhouse.

A 10-year-old boy suffered a broken leg while he was trying to push an ATV on his parents' property in Newfield Monday afternoon.

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WATERBORO : Residents in the six towns that make up School Administrative District 57 passed the $34.2 million budget by a 3-1 margin Tuesday.

Ron Collins, a critic of a proposed water extraction ban in Wells, speaks at a special town meeting Saturday.

There's something in the water. No, not swine flu, although this contaminant has been known to make people feverish.

A key battle in Maine's ongoing war over water will be decided in Wells on Saturday.

Listening to my basement sump pump hard at work the other day, I got to thinking.

Supporters of a measure to prevent companies such as Poland Spring from extracting groundwater in Wells will present a ballot proposal to the town's selectmen tonight.

AUGUSTA : A bill that was sent back to its authors for revision after a rough start with the Legislaturea s Health and Human Services Committee has received unanimous support on its second try.

AUGUSTA : People paid to gather signatures in pursuit of citizen-initiated laws are targeted in two pieces of legislation that seek to cast private and special interest money out of the process.

There has been a general store in the York County town of West Newfield since the 18-hundreds. But the West Newfield General Store will close next week unless the owners can find the money to keep it open.

The state's highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Poland Spring in its effort to build a water pumping station in Fryeburg.

This Sunday, maple sugar makers around the state will open the doors of their sugarhouses for Maine Maple Sunday, a chance for the public to join them in a rite of spring.

While some people attempted to be frugal at the 3 1/2-hour Town Meeting Saturday, one resident volunteered to save the town a little money by installing a gas line for free.

Longer days and warmer temperatures are exactly what maple syrup producers have waited for all year.

The town of Newfield is now the second in Maine to ban large-scale water extraction.

A 50-year-old woman who was on probation from a previous drug conviction is back behind bars following a raid at her home in Newfield.

A West Newfield woman remains at the York County jail without bail after investigators found more than $8,000 in cash, two loaded firearms and hundreds of prescription drugs at her home Monday.

Cora B. MacDonald, 94, a longtime resident of West Kennebunk and Wells, passed away peacefully Thursday, Feb.