Washburn News

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a home at 884 Griffin Ridge Road on Wednesday afternoon.

Forget about the iPod, the BlackBerry and computers. They haven't been invented because the year is 1864 at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center.

The Washburn Elementary School has received a large grant to enhance student learning.

Less than a year after it was leveled by fire, the Washburn & Doughty Associates shipyard in East Boothbay is busier than ever and looking for more workers.

Ice jams are continuing to pose threats along several northern Maine rivers. The National Weather Service said an ice jam remained locked in place for the fourth day in a row Friday on the Aroostook River in Washburn, flooding portions of Route 164.

His parents and other kin who live on the Dow Siding Road decided to remain in their homes, hoping the flooding in their yards would subside Tuesday.

Emergency management officials are keeping an eye on rain-swollen and ice-jammed rivers in northern Maine.

Emergency management officials in Aroostook County say they evacuated 9 homes along the Aroostook River in the town of Wade Monday night.

AUGUSTA, MAINE – Officials are monitoring ice jam flooding in northern Maine, as rain and melting snow are combining to raise stream levels, and cause ice to lift and move along Maine's northern rivers.

"sketchy." "sketchy." Tanker accident closes I-95 lanes A tow-truck driver with the Orrington-based Stewart's Wrecker Service works to hook up to a tractor-trailer that went off into the median from the ...