Winslow News

When 16-year-old Sabrina Beggs looks into her future, she sees her mother's absence in the milestones of her life: picking out a prom dress, earning her driver's license, graduating from high school and college and getting married.

Augusta - At the Maine Veterans Hospital in Augusta, Leon Audet of Winslow, and Almo Nickerson of Carabassett, are almost in separable.

Four more people, three of them from New York, have been arrested on federal drug charges in connection with an alleged cocaine and oxycodone distribution ring in the Waterville area in which 16 people have been indicted.

Bangor - One of the ten people accused of running a cocaine and oxycodone drug ring in central Maine appeared in federal court in Bangor on Tuesday.

It's not just any home; it's the place she loves most, in rural Winslow, where the birds sing at her window and she falls asleep to the sounds of frogs and crickets.

Lewiston: Sale and use are generally prohibited, though use is allowed in the city's firearms discharge zone on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and July 4. Rumford: Residents will vote June 12 on a proposal to allow the use of fireworks and the regulated sale of fireworks.

Dan Matthew Danforth, 41, of 189 Tuttle Rd., Canaan, allegedly drove his Pontiac Aztek through a stoplight Wednesday evening on Bay Street, Chief Jeffrey Fenlason said.

Ten people in Central Maine accused of running a cocaine and oxycodone drug ring are appearing in federal court in Bangor Tuesday.

Area residents and those passing through the city may have a place to stock up on fireworks in time for their Fourth of July celebrations.

The Farmers' Market in Unity has opened for the season at Unity Community Center on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.. www.unitymarketday.org. On Wednesday Jody Cushman of Searsmont and I were in Augusta, where we attended a meeting of Cabane 308, at Post #205 Augusta.

The driver of a dump truck that flipped Wednesday afternoon sits along the side of Route 219 in Leeds awaiting medical attention and a tow truck.

Three men accused of breaking into a city apartment last month and threatening two women inside were among the nearly two dozen people indicted this week by a grand jury in Kennebec County Superior Court.

Photo courtesy of the Old Trails Museum -- Winslow Grammar, later named Lincoln School, opened in 1897 on West Oak.

LOHMANN ANIMAL HEALTH INT'L PURCHASES ADDITIONAL LAND, TO EXPAND ITS FACILITIES May 9, 2012 Source: Lohmann Animal Health International news release Lohmann Animal Health International recently purchased property adjacent to its headquarters in Winslow, Maine, to begin preparing for future growth opportunities.