Bucksport News

Students at Bucksport High School are toting around a new high-tech item along with their notebooks and text books.

Gov. John Baldacci this week will submit a budget calling for more than $400 million in cuts and spending shifts based on assumptions Congress will pass an additional stimulus plan and extend federal aid to the states.

The Waldoboro Police Department reported the following activity from Nov. 30 to Dec.

In the future, people living in Bucksport could have more options when it comes to heating and powering their homes.

Some things can nag when left unanswered too long. Like, whatever happened to that mom with the maybe-haunted kitchen closet? Or the couple who turned their wedding into a super hero theatrical extravaganza? Joy? Regrets? We wondered, too.

Brent Fournier, 28, of Mount Desert was arrested for failure to stop for an officer, speeding more than 30 miles per hour over the limit, driving to endanger, and unauthorized use of property on Nov.

LAMOINE, Maine a ' A Mount Desert man faces charges and a man from Bucksport was arrested after they allegedly sped away from police on Mill Road.

Even with state revenues now forecast to come in nearly $400 million lower than previously expected, members of the Legislature's Appropriations Committee fear the shortfall could get worse yet.

Rockland's trap tree is captured in snowy glory in the new "Where in Maine?" book from Down East Books.

The schooner Lizzie Griffin is shown here discharging salt cod at the Alfred Jonesa Sons wharf in 1915 on the Kenduskeag in Bangor.

An allegedly drunken Tennessee truck driver, heading to Bucksport to deliver chemicals used in papermaking, missed his turn on Interstate 95 by nearly 75 miles Sunday night and then crashed his big rig spilling most of the chemicals he was carrying, officials said.

Crews from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and a contractor are working to clean up the chemicals that spilled after a truck accident along Interstate 95 in Medway.

Personnel from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and a hazardous materials contractor began on Tuesday to remove soil along the highway contaminated by chemicals after a lost and allegedly drunken Tennessee truck driver spilled his load late Sunday.

Mainers who owe back taxes are taking advantage of a limited tax amnesty program, with $8.5 million already collected with two weeks to go before the program ends.

The following cases were closed in Fifth District Court in Belfast between Nov. 2 and Nov.

In Bucksport, the second phase of a special memorial was unveiled Wednesday afternoon.

BELFAST : Raymond and Katrina Young announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayla Katrina Young, to Daniel J. Basnight Rego, son of Joseph Rego of Bucksport.

By COLIN POWELL Two major decisions loom over School Union 93 as the new year approaches.

A man driving down the River Road around 1:30 a.m. Friday noticed flames shooting into the air from the backside of a two-story white home and called emergency 911 for help.

A home along the River Road in Orrington was engulfed in flames early Friday morning.