Madison News

The town of Athens withdrew earlier this month, leaving Brighton Plantation and Madison the only communities in Madison-based School Administrative District 59.

Two men believed to be involved with the robbery of a general store in June confessed to the crime Monday.

An East Madison woman plans to open her perennial gardens to the public Friday and Saturday for an open-house flower swap for Mother's Day.

A man and a woman were arrested over the weekend for attempting to steal more than $500 worth of merchandise from Walmart while accompanied by four children, according to police.

The Maine Board of Corrections on Tuesday averted a possible shutdown of the Androscoggin County Jail by approving a payout to the jail of about $210,000. The state board, which oversees Maine's network of 15 county jails, voted to withhold all or partial funding from several other jails, including those in Somerset, Knox and Cumberland counties.

A Skowhegan woman was ordered held without bail Monday morning in a New Hampshire courtroom on charges that she was an accessory and co-conspirator in the murder of her brother's former wife.

So when he first was told that he had been named statewide Marine of the Year by the Maine Marine Corps League, Gordon, now a school bus driver, accepted the award quietly and continued his work as adjunct paymaster for his local detachment, called Maine Leathernecks.