Mattawamkeag News

Firefighters could do little to extinguish an early Monday morning fire at a mobile home on Richardson Farm Road that flattened the home and took everything inside, the homeowner and Lee Fire Chief Jay Crocker said.

Crews were called to a camp fire in Grindstone Sunday night. The call came in around 9:30. Fire fighters from Medway, East Millinocket, and Mattawamkeag responded.

Sara Alberts will retire effective June 30 as superintendent of the Katahdin region's public schools, ending five years of what Millinocket School Committee Chairman Thomas Malcolm called "an impossible job." Alberts announced her retirement to a combined Union 113-Millinocket School Committee meeting Monday night.

Fire investigators were in Medway on Monday, trying to figure out what sparked two fires there Sunday night.

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.

An accident that destroyed a tanker truck and killed a firefighter two years ago haunted firefighters Wednesday when a lack of water at a critical moment contributed to the destruction of a handmade log cabin on Rocky Road.

Maine utility regulators have approved a long-term energy supply contract for the Rollins wind-power project in Penobscot County.

A Danforth man convicted of driving drunk during a crash that paralyzed his former girlfriend and endangered the life of their unborn child will spend at least six years in prison, ruled Penobscot County Superior Court Justice William Anderson on Wednesday.

Students at public schools in Lincoln, Chester and Mattawamkeag will be allowed to watch President Barack Obama's back-to-school address on Tuesday if teachers elect to air it in their classrooms.

Late on the night of March 12, 1909, two teenage girls got off "the midnight train from Wytopitlock" at Union Station in Bangor.

First Wind has closed two financing transactions for a total of $191 million. The first is an eight-and-a-half-year $115 million term loan facility from Alberta Investment Management Corp.

Susan Lovell and her husband John, a great cook, live near Pat's Meat Market & Cafe in Portland, with a hungry Maine coon cat and a poodle who eats cat food.

The state says Jayson Caron, of Danforth, got drunk during the 2007 Springfield Fair, demanded the keys from his pregnant girlfriend, and then rolled his truck and caused her to be para-lyzed and bound to a wheelchair.

A fire destroyed a one-family farmhouse Thursday when a pregnant woman frying chicken for her son's 17th birthday left to chase a loose horse and the chicken started to burn.

A family of eight is homeless after a fire near Lincoln this afternoon destroyed everything they own.