Husson College News

Two small-business owners are vying for the Republican nomination to challenge an incumbent Democrat for the House District 79 seat.

Ask Saundra Pelletier about herself and she starts with her childhood in Caribou, a small town at the northeastern tip of Maine where her mother taught her to want more than the potato-farming community could offer.

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.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Melissa Kaehler repeatedly phoned her mother in Maine and told her of the abuse she was suffering, her mother said.