Pittsfield News

A 2008 University of Maine at Presque Isle graduate is headed to Uganda to discuss a study he completed this summer that concluded spending money on family planning, rather than on more conventional green technologies, would be more cost-effective in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Preliminary voting results on Tuesday showed that both Question 2, a citizens' initiative to reduce excise taxes on some vehicles, and Question 4, the latest version of a Taxpayer Bill of Rights, were trailing significantly in the polls.

Jeremy Yehle casts his vote at the Hampden Municipal Building on Tuesday. According to town clerk Denise Hodsdon, by about 4:30 p.m., more than 2500 residents had cast their votes, either in person or by absentee ballot, of Hampden's 5800 registered voters.

The plant manager of General Electric Security, the town's largest employer, wants employees who need hospital care to travel 22 miles south -- not one mile down the road.

Construction on a Percent for Art project at the University of Maine's Dean Paul Cloke Plaza halted Wednesday afternoon when an arch form being filled with concrete failed, felling a second arch being used in the project.

A job workshop will be held today from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Pittsfield Municipal Building in the council chambers.

Authorities advised area residents to be on guard Tuesday as 55 law enforcement officers on the ground and in the air searched for Perley Goodrich Jr.

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.

UNITY : Police say a Milo man will be charged after flipping his vehicle Oct. 19 on Albion Road and admitting to police he did not have a driver's license.

As the colorful and comfortable Adirondack chairs before him were claimed one by one, 6-year-old Johnny O'Brien's bottom lip began to tremble.

On June 18, 2009 at the University of Maine at Fort Kent at 6pm held the biggest drawing of the season for many hunters.

ELLSWORTH, Maine a ' Pupils from the Charles C. Knowlton School and the Ellsworth Elementary-Middle School will join youngsters from around Maine and the world Tuesday for the International Walk to School Day.

I'm not exactly sure what piece of the grieving process some people resolve by sitting at a grave site or leaving a single rose at a makeshift roadside shrine.

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

Committing a drug offense on public property just became a more serious crime, according to a new local ordinance that took effect Thursday.

One town in central Maine is preparing two budgets for the next fiscal year. In addition to its regular budget, Pittsfield is also working on a backup budget.

I love wine. In particular a ' I love my Dada TMs wine. Hea TMs been growing grapes in Connecticut and making wine for years.

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.

Wednesday to put weather-proof material on the roof of the Pittsfield Church of the Nazarene.

BURNHAM : A Hartland man was charged with operating under the influence Sept. 19 after he reportedly blew a turn and drove his car off the road.