Strong News

While investigating a forged check complaint, police received more information about three people suspected of taking part in nearly 20 burglaries over a two-year span, said Detective Marc Bowering on Monday.

A fuel container being used to start a campfire exploded late Friday night, spraying burning fuel 50 feet and enveloping an 8-year-old boy in a fireball.

ROCKLAND : Will Galloway took over as director of the Watershed School on July 1, and will usher in a new phase in the school's history as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.

WARREN : About 40 people turned out Tuesday night for a walking tour of the historical sites in town.

A two-vehicle crash at Spaulding Road and Hartwell Road on Thursday sent two people to the hospital and a dog to a veterinary hospital.

It was supposed to be a fun evening ride. The Legere family had made the trip before, clomping down Route 117 in one of Phil Trundy's pony carts.

Four men are in the Franklin County Jail charged in connection with more than two dozen break-ins at camps in Strong and New Vineyard last week.

Once the security of your home is violated, life is never the same. Lorraine Chandler is finding that out after she and her husband, Richard, had their camp on Porter Lake broken into and vandalized June 17.

Local musician Dot Lambert will once again take the stage at the 6th annual Kingfield POPS Saturday beginning at 4 p.m. at the Kennedy Farm on Route 142.

Four men are being held at a Farmington jail on $10,000 to $15,000 cash bail on charges connected to camp burglaries on Porter Lake in Strong and New Vineyard last week.

A lot of camps have been broken into in Franklin County, and police are looking for your help... Corporal Steve Charles with the Franklin County Sheriff's Department says there have been 26 reports of vandalism ...

Franklin County deputies were investigating more burglaries Wednesday on Porter Lake, this time on the New Vineyard side.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Department is asking for information about whoever broke into more than two dozen summer homes in Strong and New Vineyard on Monday night, causing thousands of dollars of damage.

The driver and a passenger of a Jeep Cherokee escaped injury when their vehicle collided with an E. L. Vining Co.

Maine wildlife biologist Chuck Hulsey spent all day Thursday trying to find a yearling deer in Western Maine that thinks it's anything but a deer.

Selectmen on Tuesday balked at paying a share of legal expenses incurred by Union 98 school officials in fighting the state's school consolidation plan for Mount Desert Island schools.

A judge ruled Friday that a German couple defaulted when they failed to appear for a contempt of court hearing.

A jury of five men and seven women took two hours to find a Strong man not guilty of assault and terrorizing charges on Wednesday in Franklin County Superior Court.

The following were recently booked at the Franklin County Detention Center: Benjamin Sotto-Girardin, 22, Jay, warrant: unpaid fines, fees, May 19, no bail listed as of May 19, Farmington Police Department.

A Livermore Falls woman ended up with minor injuries but charged with several crimes after taking a friend's car and crashing it, police said.