Pittsfield News

After reading the "Going green carefully in Dixmont" column by Carolyn Dodge , I felt it necessary to shed some light on her positions on becoming a low-impact citizen in our high-impact society.

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.

The first Sister of Mercy to visit Indian Island came up the Penobscot River in a canoe in 1858.

Arnold Shorey, the assistant superintendent of RSU 19 in Newport, is switching titles and schools in July.

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With all this concern about how to address global warming, we always seem to rely on some kind of a oequick fixa solutions.

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.

A Palmyra man is dead after he crashed his car on Route 2 in Pittsfield Tuesday.

A man from Palmyra died this morning when his minivan crashed on Route 2 in Pittsfield.

Newport police are investigating an incident Sunday night that witnesses first said was a drive-by shooting before recanting their statements and admitting the shooting was accidental.

Thanksgiving Day festivities soured for a Pittsfield man and his girlfriend who lost almost everything Thursday when a fire ravaged their 951 Main St.

It will be a turbo-charged schedule, Town Manager Kathryn Ruth says, but well worth it.

The Memorial Bridge reopened ahead of schedule on Friday following a month of repairs that forced drivers to seek alternative routes between the city and Kittery, Maine.

State lawmakers are hoping to fix a 2-month-old law that was supposed to help Maine's boutique beer and liquor stores but which instead has left some shops complaining of a regulatory hangover.

Bail was set at $5,000 for a 21-year-old Pittsfield man after his Oct. 26 arrest on multiple felony charges stemming from an alleged car theft, police said.

Shelby Atwood, a junior at Carrabec High School, heard from her upperclassmen friends that the Jobs for Maine's Graduates program was useful and fun.

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.