Palmyra News

Family and friends of a Palmyra woman seriously injured last month in a car accident are planning a benefit next month at the Hartland Volunteer Fire Department.

PORTLAND, Maine a ' All of that shrimp caught off the Maine coast this winter is causing concern for operators of the Portland Water District.

The male victim of a brutal sexual assault and burning that happened while he was passed out drunk one month ago is still hospitalized.

The last thing Tabitha Morrill remembers about the morning of Dec. 12 is looking out her passenger window and seeing a telephone pole coming at her.

Sometimes you have to read between the lines. At first glance, attendance at the Christmas Day version of the Pittsfield Welcome Table was average compared with the usual crowds that gather every Friday for free meals and socializing at the First Universalist Church.

A three car accident in Palmyra sent two men to the hospital earlier today. According to state police 66-year-old Gary Bartlett was trying to make a left turn off of Route 11 in Palmyra when he was rear ended by 51-year-old Michael Archambault of Troy.

The 460 employees at Fraser Papers Inc.'s Madawaska mill who are negotiating a new labor contract with the company have turned down an initial offer by the firm.

A Palmyra man died on his way home from work this morning when the car he was driving went off the road, struck a tree and tumbled to a stop in a cow field on Route 2. Jeffrey Guilford, 56, who was working third shift at the Verso paper mill in Jay early Tuesday, died as rescuers tried to free him from the wreckage, according to Pittsfield Police ...

NEWPORT, Maine a ' Newport Fire Department crews fought two structure fires in less than 12 hours Sunday and Monday.

NEWPORT, Maine a ' A Maine school counselor wants a state board to toss out a complaint filed against him because he appeared in a television commercial opposing gay marriage.

At her home in Newport, Sandra Goodrich pauses to compose herself while reflecting on the life she had with her husband, the late Perley Goodrich Sr.

John Clark often says he runs Hartland Public Library more like a hardware store than a library.

When the Church of the Nazarene started a collection in appreciation of a roofing company that installed a new roof on the church for free, it expected to collect a few hundred dollars at best.

Firefighters from two counties got extensive training on how to save people in motor-vehicle accidents.

Competing television commercials in the same-sex marriage debate in Maine pit one Nokomis Regional High School educator against another over the issue of whether the law would affect what's taught in public schools.

The landmark business center just off Interstate 95, the Somerset Plaza, is getting a major facelift.

A year ago, Mark and Jennifer Yarbrough thought life was going pretty well. Mark had a well-paying job for a subsidiary of Citibank, for which he traveled all over the country.

Submitted by Mike Tipping on Wed, 09/02/2009 - 6:40am. Maine Politics There's been plenty of talk in Maine's media about where the money is coming from for each side of the equal marriage campaign, but less mention so far of a more important consideration; where their votes are coming from.

Police are looking for the person who robbed a Dunkin Donuts in Palmyra with a knife.

AUGUSTA, Maine a ' Gov. John Baldacci is asking Maine's congressional delegation to explore emergency aid options to assist the state's shellfish industry in the wake of extensive red tide and flood closures.