Old Town News

Authorities said Maine Rep. Richard Blanchard of Old Town tried to use his position improperly when a fire marshal was cited him for illegal fireworks possession.

State Rep. Richard Blanchard of Old Town tried to use his position to dissuade a state fire marshal from citing him for illegal fireworks possession during a heated discussion at Blanchard's camp on Abbott Road on the Fourth of July, authorities said Tuesday.

The rain just wouldn't go away. Wet weather once again canceled racing at Speedway 95 Saturday night.

Paradegoers and participants dodged intermittent rain drops Saturday morning and afternoon, and a dreary forecast may have kept some people away, but thousands of area residents lined main thoroughfares in Bangor and Brewer for the annual Greater Bangor Kiwanis Club Fourth of July Parade.

It's a new beginning for Masons in Maine. More than five years ago, a massive fire wiped out their historic hall in downtown Bangor.

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Creamy white frosting covered some of their chins Saturday and their fingers were coated with chocolate, but the mess didn't bother participants of the inaugural Whoopie Pie Festival.

ROCKLAND : "The Way We Get By" will be shown 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 27 and 28, at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St.

Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine Middle Jun. 25--ORRINGTON, Maine-- Lt. Tim Kenney, who has fought fires in town for more than a quarter-century, went to work at UPS in Brewer on May 1 without a worry, but shortly after arriving fell to the ground unable to breathe.

You'd like to think you could at least slide into the season and if you have to hit snags later on - when you've got your curtain-legs under you.

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A Greenbush man charged with robbing two banks less than two weeks apart was indicted Monday by the Penobscot County grand jury for allegedly having 30 pounds of marijuana mailed to himself at the Old Town post office from Texas, and for the Bangor robbery.

The award-winning documentary about three Bangor International Airport troop greeters has a prime-time slot for its television premiere, and continues to rack up stellar notices and prizes.

At this time last week, television stations across the state and country braced for a wave of complaints about the final switch from analog to digital signals.

View collections of photographs by award-winning Bangor Daily News photo journalists.

A woman was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday after her Nissan sedan collided with a Chevrolet Blazer at Center and Fourth streets in Old Town.

According to the State Fire Marshal's Office, the fire that destoryed a historic building in Downtown Orono Tuesday evening was accidental.

It was a close call at a home in Old Town Saturday...as a vehicle came careening into the front yard.

A new book by Steven Burr titled "Lost York County" documents historic structures that no longer grace the landscape of Maine's southernmost county or have been so altered as to make them unrecognizable.

Three State Fire Marshal's Office investigators rummaged through the burned-out remains of The Orono Apartments at 6 Bennoch Road on Wednesday searching for the cause of the blaze that ripped through the historic building Tuesday night.