Kenduskeag News

Depending on whom you ask, Maine teachers are either woefully underpaid for challenging work or generously compensated for a job with lots of time off.

Two horses perished Saturday in a fire that destroyed a barn owned by Louis and Irene Goodwin on McCard Road.

City leaders and veterans gathered at a walkover bridge overlooking the Kenduskeag Stream in downtown Bangor Monday to pay their annual honor to those Americans who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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

The three-day search for Perley Goodrich Jr., 45, who is wanted for questioning in connection with the shooting death of his father, has been focused in a wooded area frequented by deer hunters.

The U.S. District Court is considering using space in the Penobscot County Courthouse and the nearby District Court on Hammond Street as temporary quarters while the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building on Harlow Street is undergoing a $53 million renovation.

A shiny black 1923 Ford T-Bucket, with a purple and cream trimmed interior and lightning bolts on the sides, was one of many antique cars on display at Saturday's Wheels on the Waterfront event.

A man from Bangor who's been building quite a criminal history pleaded guilty today to more than a dozen charges.

Franconia, N.H., had its Old Man of the Mountain. Bucksport has its witch's foot.

CORINTH, Maine a ' Despite initial reports that pegged the damage from a fire Monday night in the thousands of dollars, the chief executive officer of Corinth Wood Pellets said Wednesday that the damage amounted to only $1,500 and that the affected piece of equipment has been repaired.

CORINTH, Maine a ' Despite initial reports that pegged the damage from a fire Monday night in the thousands of dollars, the chief executive officer of Corinth Wood Pellets said Wednesday that the damage amounted to only $1,500 and that the affected piece of equipment has been repaired.

The owner and operator of Cinnamon's Sweets , an escort service that advertised online, pleaded guilty Tuesday in 3rd District Court to four counts of promoting prostitution.

"[Homosexuality] is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.

Six-year-old Meghan Ireland and her mother Julie Ireland of Hampden walk past the Charlie Howard Memorial at Kenduskeag Plaza in downtown Bangor Monday afternoon, July 6, 2009.