Orland News

With summer weather finally upon us, more people will be headed outside. The Great Pond Mountain Conservation trust in Orland is working to rehabilitate some walking paths.

SEARSPORT : We at Rolliea s are happy to post our daily specials for your convenience.

A longtime sheriff's deputy and then dispatcher for the Hancock County Sheriff's Department died Saturday in Ellsworth.

BELFAST : We at Rolliea s are happy to post our daily specials for your convenience.

There will be fun, food and even a little frolic today at the 34th celebration of Orland River Day.

According to Ellsworth Police 2 vehicles crashed along Route 1A at the bottom of McGowan's hill.

Transportation officials' recent decision to scrap 75 percent of the paving projects planned for the next two years due to budget cuts means deeper rim-bending potholes and more under carriage-scraping frost heaves for drivers throughout the state.

ELLSWORTH : The Ellsworth Duplicate Bridge Club held a regular open game on May 14.

Maine motorcyclists can continue to decide whether to wear helmets when they ride, with the Senate defeating a measure on Thursday to require helmets.

Robert M. Denike, 45, owner and operator of Barrd Builders in Holden, is facing three counts of theft in connection with a building project in Orland.

WARREN : Spring in Maine is marked by the annual migration of alewives, an 11-inch herring-like fish.

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"11:42 a.m. PATHETIC! More copying and pasting! Unbelievable. Do they have any thoughts of their " "JD2008: You are a total fearmonger and you paint me with a brush of partisan ignorance that I do " Woman reprieved from eviction as "Hangenhigh: Is the daycare still there?" Sangerville day care investigated "Quint has quite a lengthy violent ...

Student of year Student finds success close to home Michael Handzel of Orland, a business management major at Eastern Maine Community Center in Bangor, was named student of the year at the college.

Orland Historical Society eyes new building ORLAND, Maine - The gift of land to the Orland Historical Society has opened new possibilities for housing its collection related to local history.

While the fine for promotion of prostitution can be up to $2,000 and a year in jail, the last person prosecuted in Penobscot County paid a $500 fine in April 2008, Assistant District Attorney Jim Diehl said on Tuesday.

Seven women were arrested Thursday and Friday in a prostitution ring in Brewer. Brewer Police say they started an investigation about a month ago of a prostitution ring that was advertising on the website Craigslist.

ELLSWORTH : Hancock County Higher Education Center will host a presentation on Iraqis refugee stories, Tuesday, April 7, 1-2 p.m. Carolyn Coe will host a presentation on Iraqis refugee stories, April 7. In December, Carolyn Coe, adjunct instructor at the Hancock County Higher Education Center, traveled to Amman, Jordan and Damascus, Syria to record ...

Some 60 firefighters from Stonington to Ellsworth responded to a house fire in Blue Hill just before 10 Monday morning.

There will be just two contested races in the Regional School Unit 25 election April 7. Voters in Bucksport, Orland, Verona Island and Prospect will elect representatives to an eight-member board that will govern the new consolidated school district.