Power Shifts to Quebec

Bangor Daily News - Tue Nov 24

Maine has spent a lot of time building a relationship with neighboring New Brunswick, with energy as a major focus.

Littleton artist showing work in Star City

Bangor Daily News - Tue Nov 24

Littleton artist Frank Sullivan doesn't quite know how to put into words what fascinates him about the southern Aroostook County landscape.

Curtailment order hits education sector hardest

Bangor Daily News - Fri Nov 20

Gov. John Baldacci ordered more than $63 million in midyear budget cuts Friday in a curtailment order that heavily targets state funding for education and social services programs.

She's dead to me

Village Soup - Thu Nov 19

Well, maybe not entirely doomed, but kinda doomed. She might survive her 2012 campaign for re-election to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, but not without serious damage.

County firefighter faces arson charge

Bangor Daily News - Mon Nov 16

The State Fire Marshal's Office has charged a paid on-call firefighter with the Presque Isle Fire Department with arson in connection with a fire over the weekend that destroyed Northeast Packaging Co.

Presque Isle Firefighter Charged In Friday Fire

WLBZ - Mon Nov 16

Investigators with the State Fire Marshal's Office have determined that a fire Friday night at a packaging company was set, and a Presque Isle firefighter has been arrested.

Woodland man charged in stabbing a

Bangor Daily News - Sat Nov 14

Vernon Baker, 32, of Woodland , arrested in connection with Caribou stabbing on Friday, Nov.

Logging outfits punished for labor violations

Bangor Daily News - Fri Nov 13

The U.S. Department of Labor has charged two northern Maine logging contractors with violating federal labor laws that require firms to recruit American loggers before hiring often lower-paid foreign workers.

Former Island Falls firefighter a

Bangor Daily News - Fri Nov 06

CARIBOU, Maine a ' The former deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department was indicted Friday by the Aroostook County grand jury on a theft charge in connection with the alleged misappropriation of about $10,000 in town funds.

Rural-Urban divide was at work in Maine repeal of gay marriage

NowPublic - Thu Nov 05

"Opinions may differ on particular strategies. But the unofficial results show that, as with many other cultural issues, whether Mainers voted for or against same-sex marriage largely depended on where they call home." ~Bangor Daily News Online There has been much talk of the Rural /Urban divide throughout the United States.