Howland News

Selectmen will meet on Oct. 19 to consider hiring an engineer to help the town clean up much of a former Penobscot River tannery abandoned for nearly 40 years.

After 29 years working the Jesup Memorial Library, Nancy Howland is retiring. Bar Harbor a ' After 29 years at the Jesup Memorial Library, the last two decades as its head librarian or director, Nancy Howland has decided it is time to close the book on that phase of her life.

The town should have its own public access television channel on Polaris Cable by January, an organizer of the local TV effort said Thursday.

Police are looking for the person who hit an overpass in Howland this week. On Thursday morning, crews discovered that several hundred thousand dollars worth of damage had been done to the I-95 bridge on the North Howland Road.

Employees and fire crews are on scene salvaging equipment and cleaning up the scene where the more than 40-year-old Lincoln News caught fire last night.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, from 7-9:30 p.m., the National Honor Society of the high school will be sponsoring a free dance for grades 6-8. The dance will be in the high school cafeteria .

A proposal to re-create a 1628 trading post -- considered by some to be the second-most important historical Pilgrim site in this country -- won unanimous City Council approval Thursday.

Couple revives run-down Maxfield farm to give them more room for their goats and cheese-making operation Abigail Carson of Maxfield pets one of Scott Belanger's milking goats Sunday during the second annual Open Creamery Day at Olde Oak Farm in Maxfield.

Residents of Howland will be in the dark for a little while Friday morning. Bangor Hydro is going to be shutting down service in that area to perform repair work to a line that was damaged during recent excavation work.

Joseph Nesin looks forward to 30 years of free electricity. A 50-year-old veterinarian and ardent environmentalist, Nesin installed a Bergey XL 10-kilowatt windmill to power his office and adjoining farmhouse, sitting the three-blade turbine atop a 140-foot steel tower on his Pea Ridge Road property earlier this month, he said.

University of Maine head womens' basketball coach and Memory Walk honorary chairwoman Cindy Blodgett gets up in the stands at Bass Park to take a group photo of fellow participants before Saturday morning's Memory Walk in Bangor to benefit the Alzheimer's Association.

Members of the Lincoln County reenactment group, George White's Company of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Line, march in formation after firing their muskets as part of the Revolutionary War demonstrations at Leonard's Mills in Bradley on Saturday.

Pat Worster , 54, of Lincoln let her nephew Evan Boobar, 16, of Howland use her Plymouth Acclaim for his driver's test only to see it wrecked on the road in front of her house Thursday.

At first glance, Robert J. Emery seems to be enjoying a normal retirement. He and his wife, Sue, spend half the year on River Ranch, their 12-acre spread in Howland, and the other six months in Florida.

12 at Moore Auditorium at the Schoodic Education and Research Center. For more information, contact Denny Oa Brien at 288-1327. The Sierra Club will offer a hike up Dorr Mountain starting at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Sept.

Lee Academy's first American-curriculum school in China opened its doors for the first time last Tuesday, even as the academy in Maine began its year with a record number of Asian boarding students, academy Headmaster Bruce Lindberg said.

EDINBURG, Maine a ' A New Jersey man was transported to Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln on Saturday after his vehicle left the highway and rolled over, landing on its side.

A masked and hooded man police identified as Troy Gay of Greenbush allegedly demanded money from a Bank of America teller during a robbery on May 7 on Union Street in Bangor.

Jeff Turner and his son, Taylor, are spending their summer in very close confines as they complete a journey that has been years in the making.

CAMDEN : As the Camden fireworks began last Friday there was a thick fog shrouding the harbor.