Clinton News

When she was a child living in Clinton, Natalie S. Jones passed by the Good Will-Hinckley Home for Boys & Girls almost every day.

EVOLUTION:FIVE DECADES OF PRINTMAKING BY DAVID C. DRISKELL will be on exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art from October 29, 2009 - January 17, 2010.

Former Maine Sen. George Mitchell spoke at Colby College Thursday evening. Mitchell, who is from Waterville, is currently special envoy to the Middle East.

When the Church of the Nazarene started a collection in appreciation of a roofing company that installed a new roof on the church for free, it expected to collect a few hundred dollars at best.

Included are Robert Drisko, Darlene Landry, Peter Coughlan, Rosemary Winslow, Ernestine Peaslee, Anne Davis, Nancy Oa TMLaughlin, David Worthing, Clinton Collamore, Eugene Moreau, Heidi Peckham, Christine Chamberlain, Pauline McDougald, Victor Goodwin Sr., Robin Lint, Curtis Lunt, Cornell Knight, Ralph Farnham Jr., Elaine Wilcox, Wanda ...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is set to travel to Maine later this month to deliver a lecture at the University of Maine in Orono.

More than 100 people stood in the pouring rain Wednesday to protest Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's lawsuit against the state.

AUGUSTA : The Spirit of America Foundation honored 40 Maine towns for their participation in the Spirit of America volunteer recognition program during a Sept.

Wednesday to put weather-proof material on the roof of the Pittsfield Church of the Nazarene.

WALDOBORO : The Waldoboro Woman's Club met Sept. 8 at the VFW Hall on Mill Street in Waldoboro.

Colleen Schofield, daughter of Jen and Wayne Schofield of Troy was recently chosen as First Runner-up of the Maine State Dairy Princess for 2009.

WALDOBORO : Wayne Myers, a doctor and farmer who lives in Waldoboro, was invited by the White House to attend President Barack Obama's speech on health care reform at a joint session of Congress on Sept.

ROCKLAND : The Rockland waterfront hosted a unique tall ship this past weekend, when Peacemaker tied up at the public dock.

"By now this corn should be about shoulder-high," said Brian Wright, one of the owners of the Wright Place Farm in Burnham.

When the Cold War ended in 1990, President George H.W. Bush talked about the expected "peace dividend," a reduction in military spending.

A veteran boat builder who has taught the craft in Washington County for nearly 15 years was named Friday to head the Eastport Boat School, now part of Husson University.

WALDOBORO : Clinton Collamore was re-elected chairman of the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen on Tuesday.

Route 23 in Clinton is shut down at this hour. It's because of an accident that killed one person and injured another.

Fire fighters from Burnham responded to two fires within 24 hours. The first call came in Monday around 11:00pm. Fire officials say an old store attached to three apartments on Main Street was fully engulfed in flames.

The state's $24 million operational plan to restore diadromous fish - those that migrate between fresh and salt waters - to the Penobscot River and guide their management received mixed reviews at a public hearing Thursday.