Solon News

Calling the former Solon Manufacturing Co. building on Island Avenue a white elephant, the Skowhegan Board of Assessors has reduced the building's value for taxation by almost half.

This is the found photograph that serves as a departure point for collaberations between artists and poets as part of the Belfast Poetry Festival.

Seven years ago Don and Kay Kenerson moved to Maine. After purchasing 116 acres of land they needed something to put on it.

The Wal-Mart store at the Fairgrounds Marketplace will soon be super-sized, increasing the store's size by about 25 percent.

ROCKLAND : Beginning Wednesday, July 15, through Aug. 8, the Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St., will have on exhibit four new solo shows.

Research is showing that children who have been read to at an early age are better prepared to succeed in school.

The Renaissance Center on Water Street finally has a tenant. In fact, it has two.

ROCKLAND : Religious organizations recently made the following announcements. Penny for your thoughts CAMDEN a ' The children at John Street United Methodist Church, 98 John St.

CAMDEN : The children at the John Street United Methodist Church, 98 John Street, Camden, have challenged the adults to see which group can collect the most pennies by June 14th.

Work hard, be happy and avoid controversy with other people is the advice Lois Moulton gives for longevity in life.

Hillary Lister was surprised when half a dozen people showed up last September for the first gatherings of Athens residents concerned about plans to locate a waste-to-energy incinerator in the tiny rural community north of Skowhegan.

A fire at the former Solon Manufacturing Plant over the weekend was most likely intentionally set.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating a suspicious fire at a vacant factory that used to make wood products in the Somerset County town of Solon.