Andover News

Betty Ann Moore, 83, of the East Andover Road, East Andover, Maine died Saturday, November 7, 2009, at her residence with her loving family by her side.

BETHEL a ' Residents will have a chance on Monday to learn more about a proposed $5 million construction project to provide a new gymnasium and theater at the Telstar middle and high schools complex.

RUMFORD a ' An Andover man remained behind bars early Thursday evening in Paris and a Jay man was free on bail after police accused both of participating in a home invasion in Rumford that sent one tenant to the hospital.

Why did you choose Applejack as your trail moniker? Apples are brain food. They're part of my daily routine .

In an effort to gain local voting rights while making a last-ditch attempt to prevent a wind power developer from installing 22 turbines on town hills, Robert Montgomery launched a secessionist movement on Wednesday.

Here in our vacation spot of Andover, Maine , hard times hit in earnest last month when Andover's largest employer and taxpayer, Ethan Allen, announced that it would be closing its chair-seat mill after experiencing a 41% drop in retail sales.

Here in our vacation spot of Andover, Maine , hard times hit in earnest last month when Andover's largest employer and taxpayer, Ethan Allen, announced that it would be closing its chair-seat mill after experiencing a 41% drop in retail sales.

ON JULY 10, 1962, IN WASHINGTON, D.C., VICE President Lyndon B. Johnson picked up the telephone to chat with Frederick Kappel, the chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph .

Terry Karkos/Sun Journal A LifeFlight helicopter headed for a Lewiston hospital lifts off from a field in Newry early Friday evening, carrying a man who fell 30 feet into the lower gorge pool at Screw Auger Falls in Grafton Notch State Park on Route 26.

On July 10, 1962 NASA launched AT&T's Telstar 1 satellite. The satellite was designed to relay television and telephone signals between the United States and Europe.

The tough times aren't over yet. The latest job losses: Perham's gem store in West Paris announced it would close and the Ethan Allen sawmill in Andover is laying off 60 workers.

Residents of SAD 44 will have a chance Wednesday to act on a proposed 2009-10 operating budget that's about $300,000 less than this year's. The proposed figure is $9.96 million for the education of just under 1,000 students from the district's five member towns and several unaffiliated towns and plantations.

No shaking hands during graduation. No sharing consecrated wine during Catholic services and, Maine's bishop urges, no receiving Holy Communion on the tongue.

Explosions heard on Wednesday morning by residents from Peru to Andover were sonic booms from Navy fighter jets and not an earthquake, according to Jim Miclon at Oxford Regional Communications Center in Paris.

Retrieving the carcass of a dead Hereford bull washed ashore three weeks ago along the Androscoggin River wasn't as insurmountable as police initially believed.

MDI : The Acadia Disposal District this week heard a presentation from Ecomaine, the state's only single-sort recycler.