OAKLAND — Citing safety concerns, at least two central Maine towns are considering alternatives to traditional trick-or-treating on Halloween. In Benton, children and their parents can attend a “Trick or Trunk” event on Thursday evening in the parking lot of the town’s elementary school. Instead of going door to door, kids can go car to […]
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Police do not find Ayla Reynolds in new search
An exhaustive search of a wooded area in Oakland on Wednesday for missing toddler Ayla Reynolds failed to locate the girl, according to Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland. “We did not find Ayla,” said McCausland during a news conference. “This is an area we’d looked at preliminarily in the past and investigators though it was time […]
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Missing Oakland woman found uninjured
MILO — Officials located an Oakland woman late Monday evening whose last contact with family members was on Thursday of last week. Carrie Commeau, 35, was found uninjured around 10:30 p.m. Monday. A search effort planned for Tuesday morning has been called off. Commeau was reported missing to the Oakland Police Department on Friday, according […]
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Bus full of partying Colby students stopped in Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) — Nearly two dozen college students have been summoned to court to face underage drinking charges after the bus driving them home from a party was pulled over for speeding. Police say the bus packed with students from Colby College in Waterville was stopped at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Oakland. Sgt. Tracey […]
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First solar-powered Habitat for Humanity home in New England set to open in Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) — The first solar-powered Habitat for Humanity home in New England is being opened to the public. The beige ranch house in Oakland will open on Sunday after 15 months of construction. Mike Grant, a member of the Waterville area organization’s chapter’s board of directors, tells the Morning Sentinel that the opening ceremony […]
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Two dead after Aroostook County shooting spree, fires
OAKFIELD — Police have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the deaths of two people amid a shooting and an outbreak of fires early Monday morning in Oakfield and neighboring Island Falls. Matthew Davis of Houlton was found by troopers at about 10:45 a.m. in a stolen vehicle on Beaver Dam Point Road in […]
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Maine town tables ordinance to muffle roosters
OAKLAND (AP) — Roosters in the small central Maine town of Oakland are free to crow as loud as they like. The Town Council tabled a proposal that would have levied fines as high as $100 on the owners of loud roosters. The Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1boAYCa ) reported that a dozen residents of the town […]
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Fairfield man gets 8 months for Christmas burglary, ordered to pay victims’ security system
AUGUSTA (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to breaking into an elderly couple’s Oakland home while they were sleeping and stealing Christmas gifts intended for family has been ordered to pay for a security system for his victims. Brandon Rimes of Fairfield was sentenced Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court to serve eight months […]
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Oakland company seeks approval to make absinthe
OAKLAND (AP) — A Maine company is awaiting the OK from the federal government to begin producing and selling absinthe, an alcoholic beverage that was banned in the U.S. until 2007. Tree Spirits of Oakland has created its first gallon of the anise-flavored spirit, which was banned for nearly a century due to unfounded concerns […]
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Oakland spends $9,000 to remove metal from Messalonskee Lake
OAKLAND (AP) — A project to remove jagged pieces of steel from beneath the feet of swimmers in Messalonskee Lake in Oakland cost the town more than expected, but the town hopes to recover much of the money by selling the metal. The metal removal last month cost the town almost $9,000. Town Manager Peter […]