Whiting News

Kathleen Finnegan, managing editor of the Maine based national magazine, Lighthouse Digest, was recently honored with the Great Lakes Lighthouse Festival's Founders Award for her 20 year involvement in lighthouse preservation.

A wrinkle in the administration of tax increment financing in the Unorganized Territory has prompted the Appalachian Mountain Club to put a hold on its pursuit of a TIF district in Piscataquis County.

A Whiting man was sentenced to 17A1 2 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm after a federal judge found he was an armed career criminal under the federal sentencing guidelines.

Maine Drug Enforcement agents assigned to the Down East District Task Force following a tip found about 50 marijuana plants growing in a wooded area last month and arrested a Lubec man on charges of cultivating the plants.