Princeton News

Fire Capt. Robert "Bobby" Johnson died yesterday after a 16-month battle with brain cancer, fire department officials said.

A meeting of local lawyers, the Washington County sheriff and city councilors to discuss complaints about the costs and methods of delivering court documents ended in disarray Thursday night, with participants trading barbs and no resolution of the matter reached.

Donald Newell of Princeton pleaded guilty Friday to domestic violence, a Class B burglary and violations of both a protection order and his conditions of release, but it was his ex-girlfriend's behavior that really caught the attention of Justice E. Allen Hunter.

Drive north on US Route 1 about 2 miles from Princeton, Maine and turn right on Telephone Road.

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After being told by her daughter that a man in their home was an armed intruder, a 77-year-old Downeast Maine woman pulled a gun on him and sent him running, according to court documents.

A 77-year-old Princeton woman faced down a man armed with a sawed-off shotgun and sent him running after she pointed her own gun at him, according to court documents.