Patten News

A home on the Symrna Center Road in Symrna Mills is a total loss following an overnight fire.

Optimism over the economy is in short supply these days, and Maine banks and credit unions aren't immune to the turmoil in the larger financial world.

Here is a Mainer man named Thurlow Harper's comment on the blog posting "I Need Legal Advice and A Lawyer For A Probate Situation In Penobscot County Maine" on my blog Northern Maine Adventures : I know Marty ...

ROCKLAND : When the Rockland City Council voted last week to allow the zoning change that would enable Walgeens to pursue developing five lots at the corner of Maverick and Camden streets, four of the five ...

In the seventeen hundreds they came. At first it was but a trickle but still they came.

A storm that brought whipping winds, torrents of hail and lifted some animals right off the ground in the Patten area last week was caused by a straight-line wind event, according to the National Weather ...

A freakish storm literally made pigs fly last Saturday in rural Patten, Maine. As described by my hometown Bangor Daily News , the storm emerged suddenly and violently, swooping around a mountain and heading ...

A storm that brought whipping winds, torrents of hail and lifted some animals right off the ground in the Patten area last week was caused by a straight-line wind event, according to the National Weather ...

Although there was some resistance, voters in the four towns that make up SAD 25 passed a $4.5 million budget for the coming school year by four votes.

A 75-year-old woman was charged with drunken driving after she crashed her SUV through three mailboxes late Saturday and slammed against a bridge abutment off Route 159, state police said.

ROCKLAND : School Administrative District 5 hosted its adult education graduation on June 13 and presented 17 general education development diplomas and adult education high school diplomas.

Voters in SAD 25 are heading to the polls today to vote on a $4.5 million budget for the coming school year.

A fast-moving fire demolished a three-story apartment house on Main Street on Sunday, leaving seven families without homes and prompting officials to cut electrical power to the entire town for several hours ...

Nine families have been burned out of their homes after a fire destroyed an apartment building in Patten.

My Aunt Martha Clarke died on February 26, 2008. Martha was married to my mother's brother Finley.

Katahdin Valley Health Center , headquartered in Patten, Maine, today announced the recipients of the KVHC 2008 scholarships.

Katahdin Lodge and Camps' business card from the 1970s. If you'll notice, this business card says that the post office for Katahdin Lodge is located in Smyrna Mills, Maine.

I had to drive 66 miles from Katahdin Lodge to the nearest Triumph dealer to buy that bike.

The 80 members of the Dyer Brook Community Church will hold worship services in a nearby school for the foreseeable future after lightning sparked a fire in the 100-year-old sanctuary on Monday.

“Our state has lost 23 percent of its manufacturing base since NAFTA”

David Dockham of Houlton stacks pine lumber at Fraser Papers' Ashland sawmill last week. via Bangor Daily News