Skowhegan News

From the outside, the four-story brick building at 7 Island Avenue still appeared vacant.

Members of a task force struggled Wednesday to come up with rules governing potentially lucrative energy corridors in Maine amid concerns about Canadian companies' plans to feed energy-hungry markets to the south.

Karla and Ryan Frederick along with their daughter Ashley Frederick announced the arrival of Payten Anna Frederick, born Sept.

The anointed "hot toy" of the 2009 holiday season is a furry, electronic hamster that retails in stores for the relatively modest price of $8 to $10. But the toy marketed under the catchy moniker Zhu Zhu Pets is in very short supply in stores.

Igrew up in Maine living in Skowhegan,Otisfield,Readfield,Portland. My Dad built Prospect Hill Golf as well as Apple Valley & Maple Lane .

LEWISTON a ' For the first time, Maine's rigid teacher confidentiality law allows the Department of Education to publicize how many complaints have been filed against teachers and how many teachers have lost, surrendered or been denied a license.

Businesses in Skowhegan and Anson are among six in Maine communities to share $590,000 awarded by the state Department of Economic and Community Development through its Community Development Block Grant program.

THORNDIKE : What a wonderful T-shirt weather week. My daughter and I had fun trick or treating, seeing all her friends in their costumes.

When she was a child living in Clinton, Natalie S. Jones passed by the Good Will-Hinckley Home for Boys & Girls almost every day.

"Do you want to cut the rate of the municipal excise tax by an average of 55% on motor vehicles less than six years old and exempt hybrid and other alternative-energy and highly fuel-efficient motor vehicles from sales tax and three years of excise tax?" The proponent of this citizen initiative is Roy W. Lenardson of Scarborough.

Calling the former Solon Manufacturing Co. building on Island Avenue a white elephant, the Skowhegan Board of Assessors has reduced the building's value for taxation by almost half.

As a member of the Finance Committee, Senator Snowe has worked at length on the Health Care Reform Act.

The last mile. It's a term the telecom industry uses to define the distance from the edge of a service provider's network to a customer.

Congressman Mike Michaud praised House passage of the conference report on H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.

David Govoni, 9, of Skowhegan leads the way through an 8-acre corn maze Monday at Thunder Road Farm in Corinna.

A discount, full-service clothing store chain that targets rural, under-served areas found an almost perfect location for its next outlet on West Broadway, one of its principals said Thursday.

Production supervisor Joe Ramsdell takes some quart-sized containers to the filling machine at the Gifforda s Ice Cream plant in Skowhegan recently.

The Wiyos are performing in concert at One Longfellow Square in Portland on Thursday, October 15th at 7 PM and at the Skowhegan Opera House in Skowhegan on Friday, October 16th at 8 PM.

It has been called a lot of unflattering names since it was finally completed in 2008, but Skowhegan's Renaissance Building on Water Street has become a very public part of the downtown landscape, officials say.

PORTLAND : A major show of paintings, collages and watercolors by Charles DuBack of Tenants Harbor will open Saturday, Oct.