Woolwich News

ROCKLAND : From 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 3, traditional Celtic band The Ladies of the Lake will perform at Rock City Books & Coffee, 328 Main St.

Motorcycle riders from around Maine are rallying to help one of their best friends-and they're doing it with a big bike ride this Sunday.

BATHA a ' Voters in the five communities of Regional School Unit 1 ratified a $25 million fiscal 2010 budget 424-141 in a referendum on Tuesday.

Calais, despite being named for the French channel port, sounds like callous . In other name news, Bangor is Bang-gore , Damariscotta is Dam-ur-scotta , and the town next to Biddeford is pronounced Sah-co . Old timers agree that you don't pronounce the second "w" in Woolwich .

A few years ago Jon Biehler took a life-changing bicycle ride through the US state of Maine.

ROCKLAND : University College at Rockland will host a summer graduate course from the University of Southern Maine.

A man wanted in Massachusetts for armed robbery and in Vermont for kidnapping is suspected of scamming a Woolwich family out of $7,000 and stealing a car from a dealership in Newcastle.

4/24 at 9:23 a.m. Richard Hilton, 32, of Centre Street, was arrested by Officer Keith Jensen on a warrant.

Row 1: Sarah Reece of Bath; Monica B. Castaeda of Litchfield; Colby Walker Perrine of Woolwich; Brystle of South Portland; and Tom Placy of Gorham.

The Legislature's Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee voted 12-0 Wednesday against a bill that would have required large game shooting areas to close within two years.

It's inevitable interest rates will start to rise at some stage, but when and how quickly is something even the experts can't agree on.

Maine remains blanketed in snow, and tulips are weeks away from bursting from the ground.

The Coast Guard cutter Shackle breaks ice on the Kennebec River in a passage known as the Chops, Monday, March 23, 2009 in Woolwich, Maine.

The final sections of a crane that will erect 410-foot-tall windmills began arriving Tuesday at Kibby Mountain in western Maine, where New England's largest wind farm is scheduled to be completed next year.

New Town Press " area ~ Over 12,200 copies mailed monthly for residents and businesses in Swedesboro, Woolwich, Logan Township, East Greenwich Township, Mullica Hill, Auburn and Harrisonville areas.

The trucks also will have to travel the wrong way down the Route 1 off-ramp because the two overpasses crossing Route 1 are not high enough to allow the trucks to pass beneath them.

12, 1834. What a great excuse to take another look at the 1882 "History of Penobscot County Maine, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches." I often check this book to find more about the early settlers of ...