Penobscot News

The Edinburg man shot last summer by a Maine State Trooper while allegedly wielding a knife took the stand on Tuesday and told the jury that he didn't recall much about that sunny August day.

The 43-year-old Hancock County resident, whom police did not name, climbed over the safety railing at about 12:45 p.m., according to Sgt.

This April, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection held the first public hearings on Juniper Ridge Landfill's operations since the site was originally licensed as a sludge dump for Georgia Pacific in 1993.

Belfast has been a city of newcomers since its beginning. However, my paper will be focusing on the changes brought to Belfast starting after 1960.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court this week heard an appeal brought by representatives of the estate of a Fort Fairfield woman against the nursing home that they believe was negligent in caring for her prior to her death.

The call to a woman in eastern Maine last Thursday sounded legitimate. The caller claimed to be with the Eastern Area Agency on Aging and inquired about the woman's arthritis.

While you might not feel as if you have moved, if you live in Brooklin, Penobscot or Isle au Haut you have.

Windward Passage offers middle and high school students affordable opportunities to sail on a traditional vessel.

Sasha Eaton of Penobscot and Kyle Chick of Blue Hill will never have to go to high school again-unless they want to.

Firefighters from Brooklin, Brooksville, Bucksport, Deer Isle, Orland, Penobscot and Surry participated in a controlled practice burn on the Bagaduce Road in Brooksville on Sunday, June 9. The home, donated by Oliver Carr, served as a Class A training burn for approximately 20 new recruits.

After a gloomy week of wet weather, the email I received from Mitch Simpson certainly brightened up my Thursday.

Organizers of the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame will sell off pairs of seats from the storied Bangor Auditorium beginning later this month.

Nicole Maines, who was born biologically male but has always considered herself a girl, said she hopes no other transgender person ever has to go through what she went through in the fifth grade, when she was banned from using the girls' bathroom at Asa Adams Elementary School in Orono and bullied for her sexual identity.

The House of Representatives has given final approval to a bill that would deregulate the production and sale of raw milk and raw milk products, leaving only a routine Senate vote on the bill before it heads to the governor to be signed into law.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday that $563 million has been awarded to 35 American Indian tribes across the country.

Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court were asked Tuesday to determine whether a judge was required to impose a $2,000 fine or had the discretion to impose a lesser fine on a man convicted of fishing for elvers without a license in Hancock County during the 2012 season.

I was proud to sponsor a measure that would protect Maine's water quality from metal mining pollution and even prouder when it recently won overwhelming bipartisan support in the Maine House of Representatives.

Senator Edward Youngblood listens to Penobscot residents' concerns about the proposed state budget along with his fellow state legislators during a town hall meeting at the Brewer auditorium on Thursday, March 7. After months of calculations and negotiations, and a final push that saw lawmakers staying up for more than 40 hours straight, the Maine ... (more)

Fred Callahan of Auburn, along with his brother Dan, built scores of bridges throughout Maine, including the James B. Longley Memorial Bridge, background, that connects downtown Lewiston with Auburn.

Ernie DeRaps, lighthouse keeper at four Maine lighthouses, will present a slide show illustrating the life of a lighthouse keeper.