Machias News

Festivals are great celebrations of culture that can be powerful tourist attractions as well as opportunities for the local population to celebrate their own culture.

The vote to repeal the school consolidation vote went down in defeat, 58 percent to 42 percent.

Some folks swear the most horrifying ghost stories originate in Downeast Maine. It's a region rich in both scenic beauty and supernatural lore.

Sally Jacobs, who has worked on the rails-to-trails project for the Sunrise Trail Coalition for 20 years, is the first to ride her bicycle on the Down East Sunrise Trail at Machias after a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.

Donald Newell of Princeton pleaded guilty Friday to domestic violence, a Class B burglary and violations of both a protection order and his conditions of release, but it was his ex-girlfriend's behavior that really caught the attention of Justice E. Allen Hunter.

On November 3, Maine voters will be asked, "Do you want to repeal the 2007 law on school district consolidation and restore the laws previously in effect?" It's Question 3 on the ballot, and has garnered a lot of attention from around the state.

Corey Townsend, 18, one of five Baileyville people charged in a brawl with a group of Indian Township boys and men in August 2007, lost the appeal of his conviction in the case Tuesday before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

Kenneth Chandler, 20, of Beals Island, who took a drunken joy ride on a lobster boat in May 2008 and abandoned the boat in the island's harbor allowing it to crash into four other boats, was sentenced Monday to 40 months in prison, with all but two years suspended.

Getting good press is nothing new for Maine. Towns like Bangor, Belfast, Camden, Rockland, Machias and Greenville have been designated as a oecool,a a oehip,a a oecreative,a a oearts-friendlya and a oeyoung-friendlya by various magazines and Web sites in recent years.

Employees of the Northeast State and Local Government/Education Division of Cisco's Public Sector Segment are helping some Maine families get a new start.

The man accused of setting fire to a home in Dennysville early Wednesday morning is being held on five thousand dollars cash bail.

MACHIAS, Maine a ' A Machias man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with arson in connection with an overnight fire at a home in the Washington County town of Dennysville, according to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Maine's gay marriage law, if upheld by voters this November, would have no impact on educational curriculum in the state's public schools, the Attorney General's Office said Thursday.

Clockwise from top: Matt Damon, Michael Moore, Brad Pitt and George Clooney. As I wrote after seeing the U.S. premiere, Michael Moore's Capitalism, A Love Story , is a must-see movie and his most powerful and politically fulfilled work.

As the colorful and comfortable Adirondack chairs before him were claimed one by one, 6-year-old Johnny O'Brien's bottom lip began to tremble.

ROCKLAND : People interested in becoming certified as Special Education teachers in Maine are invited to participate in an interactive television session at University College at Rockland on Tuesday, October 13, from 4:00 to 5:30 PM.

EAST MACHIAS, Maine a ' Two people were injured Tuesday evening in what police are calling an alcohol-related crash.

KNOX : On a chain around my neck, the cross I seldom wear. Not made of wood or bloodstained from Jesus bloody hair.

As a young girl, Susan Lubner spent a lot of time reading at the Bangor Public Library, first looking at picture books and eventually moving on to the Nancy Drew detective series.

Behold Gene Nichols: Today he is wearing canary yellow socks, a Peruvian jacket and a dress shirt that is red on one side and blue on the other.