Orrington News

Members of a youth missionary group from local churches went back to work Monday in Honduras, the day after a military coup overthrew the government of President Manuel Zalaya.

Lt. Tim Kenney, who has fought fires in town for more than a quarter-century, went to work at UPS in Brewer on May 1 without a worry, but shortly after arriving fell to the ground unable to breathe.

PROSPECT : Many thanks to the people that attended the Bean Supper June 13th. As all good plans go-the dishwasher did not work properly so the girls had to resort to hand wash, but we did have a nice turn out and got through OK.

BELFAST : After a fact-finding trip to the St. George municipal recycling center in Tenant's Harbor, the Belfast transfer station has found a new way to dispose of used tires.

Wayne Killam , caretaker at the Curran Homestead in Orrington, stands in the parking lot of the turn-of-the-century dairy farm as he recalls the history of the homestead for members of the Barn-storming Maine tour group who stopped as part of an inland auto tour Tuesday.

Long before sales and sports and the three-day weekend, Memorial Day was a day of mourning.

Maine's environmental protection chief says a firm ordered to clean up the former HoltraChem factory in Orrington should "drop its legal maneuvering." Commissioner David Littell issued his call to Mallinckrodt LLC one day after a federal judge refused to intervene over how to clean up five landfills.

The City of Bangor's annual Memorial Day parade will be held Monday morning and those traveling through the area may need to alter their route.

Mallinckrodt told to - get on with cleanup' Federal judge won't intervene in contaminated site dispute BANGOR, Maine - The commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection called on the St.

A stretch of road in Orrington has been closed for part of the morning after a car struck a utility pole.

A man from Orrington is in jail after leading state police on a high speed chase on his motorcycle.

Maine State Police say an Orrington man faces multiple charges after allegedly leading a trooper on a high-speed chase that reached speeds of nearly 120 mph.

An Orrington motorcycle rider who led a state police trooper on a chase through Bangor and Glenburn that reached speeds of nearly 120 mph Wednesday evening faces several charges, one of them a felony.

Mark Hanks, a veterinarian in Orrington, says that 6% of his clients' animals have tested positive for Lyme disease this year.

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Seventh Graders in Orrington got a history lesson today from some folks who actually lived it.

Landowner wins round on rail trail Orrington man can keep barricades on railroad bed BANGOR, Maine - Landowner Dale Henderson has won a preliminary battle with the state in a dispute involving a stretch of former railroad bed that runs through his property in Hancock and Washington counties.