Readfield News

WINTHROP : The Winthrop Police Department has moved into a completely renovated building with up-to-date facilities housed in a building, the shell of which dates back to 1855.

READFIELD : Josh Lake, son of Howard and Brenda Lake of Readfield, graduated May 31, 2009, with a bachelor's degree in history from Bates College in Lewiston.

WINTHROP : The proprietor of Royal Car Wash on Royal Street at 12:16 p.m. Monday told police that people have been dumping their trash in the bins at the car wash.

AUGUSTA : Fewer than 300 local voters turned out Tuesday to pass the city's $27 million school budget.

WINTHROP : At 1:20 a.m. May 27, a man living on Sturtevant Hill Road complained that noisy farm tractors were working at a late hour across the road from his house.

AUGUSTA : An employee of the Fayette Town Office reported at 9:40 a.m. May 27 that pranksters had stolen some of the town's street signs.

HALLOWELL : Michele Carville, proprietor of Hallowell & Wine, has once again opened her door for poets.

CAPITAL AREA : JEHOVAHa TMS WITNESSES The second weekend of the convention will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 29, 30 and 31 at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland.

A Readfield pilot didn't have time to be nervous Thursday when his plane engine quit while he was flying over Livermore Falls.

BELFAST : The Theater At Monmouth will present its original jazz and blues musical version of the beloved children's tale "The Three Little Pigs" at the Belfast Maskers Waterfront Theater, 43 Front St.

READFIELD : There's more than one way to ask a girl to the prom, as Capital Weekly Editor Joyce Grondin discovered Friday, May 8. On assignment out in Readfield, Grondin was cruising up the long, winding driveway to Maranacook Community School when she was met by a series of signs posted along the way.

CAPITAL AREA : Here's a look back at what was happening in the capital area more than a decade ago, taken from the pages of the Capital Weekly, April 1998: Emily Rines of South Gardiner and 14 of her University of New Hampshire classmates spent spring break building houses for poor families in Georgia with Habitat for Humanity.

This is the latest roundup from our stimulus blog . When the volunteer fire department in Readfield, Maine, wanted to get a piece of the stimulus package, Fire Chief Matt Dunn had trouble finding a source of money for a long-sought addition to their firehouse.

WINTHROP : At 3:56 p.m. Monday, it was reported that police apprehended a man walking a dog in the parking lot at Norcross Point, right next to a sign stating, a oeNo Dogs Allowed.a When police pointed this out to the man, he understood and immediately left the area.

AUGUSTA : Forget the birds. Jim Betts would much rather watch the bees. "It's fascinating to watch the bees - their social structure and how they work," Betts said.

Since beginning fire-watch patrol flights for the state on April 2, Maine Civil Air Patrol pilots have seen plenty of smoke in a fire season just getting under way.

AUGUSTA : With different configurations of musicians, the Calderwood Consort has been performing medieval and Renaissance music for more than 30 years.

WINTHROP : At 12:49 p.m. Sunday, a woman said she saw a boy of about 3 or 4 years old alone and crying in a car at Rite Aid.

A teenager who launched a program to bring lights and bleachers to his high school has died.

AUGUSTA : The Legislature's Education Committee has refused to change or repeal the state's new school consolidation law, thus opening the door for a statewide repeal vote.