Winterport News

WINTERPORT : The Winterport Business Association will meet Wed. July 8th, 6 pm, at the Town Office.Business people from around the area are welcome to attend.

MOUNT DESERT : The Board of Selectmen this week approved the appointment of Terry Savage as Wastewater Superintendent, effective June 30.

Pairings Food and Wine Education Center is an AMAZING hidden treasure in Winterport.

WINTERPORT : Police are investigating a burglary at Always Green Landscaping and Greenhouse that was reported Saturday morning, June 20.

Lobster boats tore past the Rockland Harbor breakwater Sunday morning, leaving white rooster tails - and spectators' cheers - in their wakes.

Transportation officials' recent decision to scrap 75 percent of the paving projects planned for the next two years due to budget cuts means deeper rim-bending potholes and more under carriage-scraping frost heaves for drivers throughout the state.

NEWBURGH, Maine a ' Officials have shut down a section of Route 69 halfway between Route 9 and the Winterport town line due to a road washout, according to the Penobscot County dispatch center.

WINTERPORT : Recognition night for the eighth grade was held at Wagner Middle School on June 16th.

NORTHPORT : The Waldo County Republicans' Spring Fling took place Sunday, June 7, at Point Lookout.

HAMPDEN, Maine a ' Residents in Newburgh and Hampden a ' two of the three towns that make up SAD 22 a ' approved a proposed $23.4 million school budget on Tuesday for fiscal year 2010.

'This is a way to unwind' With 14 of its own varieties, as well as its connections to community, Cellador Vineyard in Lincolnville - " a hidden gem of the midcoast - " exemplifies Maine's burgeoning wine industry Cellardoor Vineyard owner Bettina Doulton gets feedback about "Sweetheart," one of the vineyard's dessert wines, from visitor Olga ...

A nearly 180-year-old local landmark at the intersection of Main Street and Bennoch Road was destroyed Tuesday in a fire of unknown origin that displaced 23 tenants, many of them University of Maine students.

The town of Hampden is hosting a bone marrow drive on Friday to help a local man who is fighting cancer.

MOUNT DESERT : Selectmen were told Monday night the town may have to spend money to save money at its wastewater treatment plants.

WINTERPORT : Kyle McCrum of Winterport was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Maine Army National Guard.

BELFAST : 14TH ANNUAL ARTS IN THE PARK Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12 , 2009 One of Mid-coast Maine's most popular arts and crafts festivals with 80 fine artists representing a vast variety of arts and crafts.

Cierra and Mace, the two drug-sniffing dogs who work for the Brewer Police Department, have been given pink slips because of this year's tight budget.

A Newburgh man was indicted Tuesday by the Penobscot County grand jury on charges resulting from the investigation into the March death of 17-year-old Nathan Clark of Hampden.

Wendy Lainez - Lloyd M. Blanchard Jr. 1 photo Posted 5/16/09 1 comment BREWER - Wendy Lainez and Lloyd Michael Blanchard Jr.

Hampden Academy senior's death in March raises concerns, opens conversation about students' use and abuse "I think we have a reputation for being a drug school," a Hampden Academy freshman said.