Penobscot News

The 20-year-old charged with murder in the death of 15-year-old Nichole Cable of Glenburn made his first court appearance Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor.

At first glance, the scene at the Penobscot Salmon Club on Friday seemed like old times: Trucks packed the small parking lot.

Valedictorian Nolan Schroth Ellsworth is the son of Jennifer Schroth and Jon Ellsworth of Brooklin.

Workers completed the last major piece of the dismantling of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge that spans the Penobscot River.

"You needed a 280 to get B. We got a 278.5," Principal Allen Cole told the school board at its May 13 meeting.

The 2013 Energy Fair, hosted by the Island Institute's Energy for ME energy-education project team, drew scores of students and teachers from 10 coastal and island schools to the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center in Belfast on Friday, May 10.

Dominick Varney and Bradley LaBree in a scene from "Around the World in 80 Days," opening at Penobscot Theatre this weekend.

Penobscot Bay Ringers, Midcoast Maine's community handbell choir, will present a Spring Ring concert Saturday, May 18, at 3 p.m., at the People's United Methodist Church, located at 13 Chapel St.

"JAP SOLDIERS SWARM IN WOODS OF MAINE? Yellow Peril Threatens New England and New York - Startling Disclosures by Disgruntled Agent of the Mikado" This astonishing headline appeared in the Bangor Daily News on May 15, 1913, a century ago this week.

A worker picks up construction debris on Friday as crews close in on completion of the beer huts at the Waterfront Concert venue along Main street in Bangor.

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If you've driven by the public boat ramp on North Main Street in Brewer lately, you may have wondered why so many trucks have been parked there.

A proposal that would expand the entrance channel at Searsport Harbor and make way for larger ships with heavier loads has some people concerned that the project's costs to the region may go beyond its estimated $11.2 million price tag.

Local news and information from Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksville, Castine, Deer Isle, Isle au Haut, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Stonington and Surry, Maine.

As the summer lobstering season gets under way, lobstermen in Maine's top lobster port are taking steps to ensure their lobsters are top quality, and an informational During the summer of 2012, the town of Stonington received Rural Development funding that supported a pilot study of on-boat handling practices conducted by Penobscot East Resource ... (more)

A junior at Hampden Academy and a freshman at John Bapst Memorial High School were the first-place winners in the Penobscot County Bar Association's annual Law Day essay and poster contest.

The 2013-2014 Season marks the 40th Anniversary for Penobscot Theatre Company, the most Northeastern year-round, professional theatre in the country.

A Superior Court ruling against a Blue Hill farmer who has been selling unlabeled, unlicensed raw milk will have farmers in several Maine towns wondering about the future of local "food sovereignty" ordinances that seek to exempt them from state oversight.

Penobscot Marine Museum's county-wide traveling exhibit of historic photographs "Knox County Through Eastern's Eye" has moved from the Vose Library in Union to the Friendship Town Office, 6 Harbor Road.

On July 26 and 27, Art in Bloom, a festival that combines some of Maine's finest art and unique flower displays, will be presented by the Brooklin Garden Club.