Lisbon News

A Lisbon man who used his 7-year-old son's Social Security number to hide his income while receiving other benefits was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to four years in prison.

Consensus is emerging around two key elements of Gov. Paul LePage's plan to repay Maine's $484 million debt to its hospitals: the structure of the wholesale liquor contract LePage hopes will fund the debt paydown and the use of a revenue bond to pay back Maine's 39 hospitals by the fall.

Topsham firefighters went to the woods fire with Brunswick and Lisbon departments at 2:55 p.m. Sunday and had the fire under control within about 30 minutes.

Auburn's Edward Little, Farmington's Mt. Blue High and Oxford High School got C's, as did Monmouth, Lisbon and Oak Hill High.

Lewiston and Lisbon firefighters resonded to a structure fire at 379 Lisbon St. just after 3 p.m. Tuesday The Lisbon truck was in Lewiston helping with the Blake Street fire investigation and pulled away to respond to the Lisbon Street fire.

An estimated $300,000 worth of repairs to the upper dam on the Sabattus River may be on hold but crews working for the Atlantic Salmon Federation should be working on the river this summer, shoring up the stream-side. Town Manager Steve Eldridge said the town and the salmon group hope to do a feasibility study on repairing the dam over the next ... (more)