The pristine Maine coastal town of Machias will be celebrating its 250th birthday starting this Friday, with a week-long celebration planned. All of the events are family-friendly and free!
NewPage paper company will temporarily lay off around 120 hourly maintenance workers next week, that's according to mill spokesman Anthony Lyons. Lyons told the Lewiston Sun Journal that the layoffs are a 'cost containment and money-saving' move.
All my rowdy friends are going to Bangor in August! It's Hank Williams Jr. in concert on August 3rd at the Darling's Waterfront Pavilion in Bangor. Tickets for the concert go on sale this Friday morning at 10.
Central Maine's newest singing competition started this past Friday and what a great start! Randy McCoy and I rolled into T & B's Outback Tavern at 7:40 p.m. and there wasn't an empty seat in the place!
Two of country music most successful songwriters, with impressive Nashville resumes, will be appearing in the first Maine Songwriters Series at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch this Thursday, June 13th.
As Mainers take to the road as the weather warms up, some good news, gas prices remained stable this week. The gas monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com, reports that a gallon of gas in Maine is at $3.56 a gallon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNLDPDhxUETake the whole family to see something you don't see everyday, it a Civil War Reenactment Weekend at the Norlands Living History Center in Livermore.
Four-year-old Jaydon Talbot of Harmony is recovering from the amputation of his right leg after he was caught in the blades of a lawn mower his father was driving. The accident happened this past Wednesday evening, when the boy's father was cutting the grass at their home.
News of a middle school student being denied school lunch at J.A. Leonard Middle School this week because a parent owed money on the account, has Mainers offering to solve the problem.
Elizabeth Ireland from Old Town was angry after she found out that her 11-year old son was denied a hot lunch at J.A.Leonard School earlier this week. Ireland owed $53 on her son's school lunches, and as of this past Monday until the end of the school year, students who owe money on their school lunch accounts won't be fed, that's according to RSU 34 Superintendent David Walker.
