Poland News

POLAND a ' A 25-year-old Poland man was shaken up Saturday when lightning hit near him as he sought refuge from a thunderstorm at Tripp Lake.

Camp Connor leaders tried to send kids outside for archery and boating Thursday morning, but the rain drove everyone indoors, again.

POLAND a ' The fire chief credited a Mechanic Falls police officer's keen observation and quick thinking for saving tens of thousands of dollars worth of athletic and maintenance equipment at Poland Regional High School on Monday night.

Seven-hundred strawberry shortcakes were sold in just the first 40 minutes the strawberry tent was open at South Berwick's 33rd annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday.

HALLOWELL : Susan Roux, a painter from Poland, Maine, will discuss her recent art exhibition in Russia at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the Harlow Gallery, 160 Water St.

Think you're the next American Idol? Show your stuff at the Auburn Mall next Saturday, June 27.

Gerard Caron walked into the Auburn Post Office and was met by a woman with a pair of clipboards.

About 80 Poland children stayed home from school Wednesday amid news that Androscoggin County's first swine flu cases were found at Poland Community School.

The following is an edited excerpt from Designing the Maine Landscape, by Theresa Mattor and Lucie Teegarden, published by Down East: Golf may seem an unusual subject in a book about historic landscapes.

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Beneath a bare light bulb in his century-old barn, Glenn Peterson pulled on a pair of glasses and began quoting the Bill of Rights' protection of private property.

Nellie DeCoteau heard it so often growing up - "You can't do anything right. You'll never amount to anything" - that she almost came to believe it.

Robert Evans had the worst - and best - luck on his drive home this week. When the axle on his pickup truck snapped on Route 11, the vehicle lurched into a ditch, flew through the air, flipped and landed on its roof, pinning Evans.

Got kids? Friends and family? Want to take them to the lake, the beach, the parks this summer? Get a Maine State Park vehicle pass.

There's been a fervent battle to inform residents about the legalities of an ordinance that's up for a town-wide vote May 16.

A key battle in Maine's ongoing war over water will be decided in Wells on Saturday.

Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.

BAR HARBOR : Addicted to plastic? It seems all of us are. Even in our a oegreen" homes we reach for plastic toothbrushes, squeeze plastic tubes of toothpaste and in our climate, wea re all pretty grateful for polar fleece .

Two people were killed Thursday in motorcycle wrecks in Auburn and Waterford. In Auburn, a Poland man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle near the intersection of Broad Street and Hackett Road.

The School Committee, after hearing pleas for and against moving the date of Poland Regional High School graduation, voted to keep it June 6 but to move the time from 7 to 8 p.m. so track team members in a state meet that day can participate.