Central and Western Maine News

Methadone in Maine: Their habit, your money

The Sun Journal takes look in this three-part series at how methadone users get clean in jail versus those on “the outside,” and what methadone dependence costs taxpayers:

Addicted Maine inmates have no choice but to go off drugs 'cold turkey'

Veterans honored in Lewiston ceremony

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe addresses the crowd in Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston following Saturday morning's Memoiral Day parade and cerem [...]

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Polls on gay marriage not yet reflected in votes

NEW YORK (AP) — Poll after poll shows public support for same-sex marriage steadily increasing, to the point where it's now a majority [...]

Lewiston native ordained before hometown crowd

LEWISTON — “Emile, I think the assembly approves.” Bishop Richard J. Malone, of Portland, spoke these words to the Rev. Em [...]

PHOTOS: McLaughlin Garden's Lilac Festival in Paris

Standing amidst a Korean-type lilac —  the only full-blossoming lilac during Saturday's Lilac Festival at the McLaughlin Garden i [...]

Two arrested in connection to Canton Big Apple robbery

JAY – Two local men are each being held on $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 surety at Oxford County Jail in South Paris in connection to [...]

Big whoop! Festival celebrates Maine’s official state treat

Break out those stretchy pants you packed away after Thanksgiving, and get to work building up that appetite; it’s almost time for the [...]

Road Trip: 'Raymondtown' — Beauty, recreation and some big-name literary connections

Ahhhh Raymondtown! No, you won't find it on a modern map, but the town — now the towns of Casco and Raymond — offers many reason [...]

Eats: Farmers’ Gate Market — A meaty business in Wales

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The Hot Corner: Senior privileges? How about a championship

BATH — I’ve heard it all this spring. Some of it depresses me and inspires a fear for the future of the games I love. High schoo [...]

Car fire closes Route 4 in Turner

TURNER — Police are not sure what caused a noontime car fire that closed Route 4 for about an hour Saturday. "The driver told the offi [...]

Warning signs growing for Obama on path to electoral votes

President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly [...]

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