Washburn News

Investigators with the state fire marshal's office are in Washburn Monday trying to find the source of Sunday night's fire that detroyed the former McCain processing plant.

The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the origin of a fire Sunday that heavily damaged the former McCain processing plant on Main Street.

If you start a band with the explicit intention of getting famous, touring the world, buying a private jet and drinking champagne with a bunch of Playboy Bunnies in your hot tub, you, my friend, have just purchased a one-way ticket to Pathetic Town.

ROCKPORT : The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave., is celebrating the 20th anniversary of "Work of the Hand," its annual invitational gallery crafts show and sale.

A pair of tugboats under construction sit in the yard. The company has seven boats in various stages of completion, and recently was awarded a $2.6 million federal grant to put in a dry dock, which will let it pursue new types of boat projects.

ROCKLAND : Three Maine judges will oversee the Maine Lobster Festival's 2009 Open Juried Art Show, sponsored by Camden National Bank.

The Casco Bay Lines ferry Island Romance, which was built in 1973, will be replaced in early 2011.

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.