April 16, 2013 There is going to be an Evening of Bluegrass on May 4th at the Messalonskee Performing Arts Center. Good music for a good cause. It is to benefit the Messalonskee Music Program.
The Maine Games held its 7th annual 'National Anthem Audition' Saturday, April 13 at the Kora Shrine Temple in Lewiston. Congratulations to 15 year-old Megan Ward, a Bangor High School sophomore, who won the title of 'Maine Games National Anthem Vocalist for 2013.'
April 13, 2013 Donald Christen of Madison is organizing a public 'smoke-in' rally on Patriot's Day, this Monday, on the steps of the Somerset County courthouse. It's a rally to draw attention of efforts to legalize marijuana use.
April 11, 2013 With spring here, motorcycles are coming out of hibernation in Maine. The Maine state Senate voted 26-7 against a bill that would have required motorcycle riders to wear helmets while riding on Maine roads.
April 10, 2013 In what is being called the largest illegal eel possession in the history of Maine, Maine’s Marine Patrol arrest 41 year old Phillip Parker of Canada, seizing $61,000 worth of baby eels. The baby eels are known as elvers and fisherman need a license to harvest them but Parker did not have a license when he was caught with 41 pounds of eels
April 10, 2013 The final brands of Hostess have been sold after a U.S.Bankruptcy Court judge in New York approved two deals. McKee Foods, who make Little Debbie snack cakes, is buying the Drakes Cakes for $27.5 million dollars. That means Devil Dogs, Ring Dings, Yankee Doodles are coming back!
April 10, 2013 Riding the rails, that's what many Mainers have done over the past year. The ridership on the Amtrak's Downeaster Boston-to-Maine passenger train continues to grow.
Marisa Weinstein, music teacher at Warsaw Middle School in Pittsfield was surprised at a school assembly Tuesday, April 9. She was named the Maine Music Educators Association 'Educator of the Year.'
April 10, 2013 The ‘North Pond Hermit,’ who has been suspected in thousands of break-ins over the last 27 years, has been arrested in the town of Rome. That is not a typo. He lived in the Maine woods for 27 years!
It is official. Sources have confirmed that the University of Maine hockey coach Tim Whitehead, has been fired.
Whitehead, who had one year left on his contract, lead the Maine Black Bears to a dismal 11-19-8 record this season. He had coa
