Not unlike the old general store, the traditional Maine sporting goods store — to the hunter or angler — is a special place. It’s where you go to trade a gun or find a new one, or have a scope mounted, or buy live bait for that ice fishing trip. Or you just might stop […]
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Old Town Fuel & Fiber Mill closing, 180 furloughed
OLD TOWN — When they finished work on Wednesday night, most employees at Old Town Fuel & Fiber also learned they no longer had a job. “They came up at 4 o’clock and said, ‘We don’t need you to come in tomorrow. Go sign up for unemployment,’” one 26-year veteran millworker said Thursday. The Hudson […]
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Maine police share latest ways young people hide their drug use from parents
OLD TOWN — Items with secret compartments that look like everyday products — a stack of poker chips, a lint brush, a highlighter — are what some youth are using to hide their drugs, a team of law enforcement told parents recently at a drug education forum. “These are the things that parents miss,” Deputy […]
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Human trafficking conference coming to Pineland in New Gloucester
AUBURN — Earlier this month, two men and a woman were arrested in Gorham on sex trafficking charges. The three were accused of arranging for a 19-year-old homeless woman to engage in sex acts with strangers for money through ads on a website. She fled the Gorham home after one of the trio threatened to […]
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Class B Boys’ Basketball Final: Six of one, half-dozen of the other
Quick, name that team. These guys finished the season with a substantial winning streak to sneak into the regional tournament as a No. 6 seed, then kept it going with an improbable run. They won those playoff games with high drama, timely defense and scoring balance, sometimes letting a lead slip away but always exhibiting […]
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Charges unlikely in Old Town pedestrian death
OLD TOWN (AP) — Police have released the name of the pedestrian who was struck and killed in Old Town earlier this week. Authorities on Thursday said 54-year-old Tamela Glenn was walking along Poplar Street when she was hit from behind by an SUV on Wednesday night. Police told WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/1p03gb2 ) she had parked […]
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Man falls off roof, dies
OLD TOWN — A 32-year-old Bangor man was killed Thursday after he fell from the roof of a building he was working on. The victim’s name was withheld Thursday night to give family members a chance to make their notifications, Old Town police Sgt. Michael Hashey said in a news release. The accident happened shortly […]
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Police arrest New Gloucester woman on multiple charges after pursuit
OLD TOWN — A New Gloucester woman is facing multiple charges after a police pursuit through two towns Thursday evening. Old Town police Sgt. Lee Miller attempted to stop Casey Bernardini, 25, for speeding on Stillwater Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. when she took off, according to Sgt. Michael Hashey. Hashey said Bernardini indicated she […]
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Police: Victim in Old Town stabbing was pregnant
OLD TOWN (AP) — State police said the Old Town woman fatally stabbed by her boyfriend this week was pregnant. Police said 35-year-old April Haskell was killed by her boyfriend on Wednesday night before a state trooper responding to the couple’s apartment shot and killed the boyfriend, identified as 28-year-old Christopher Ouellette. An autopsy Thursday […]
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Police identify two people killed in apparent stabbing, standoff in Old Town
OLD TOWN — A Maine State Police trooper shot and killed a man who reportedly stabbed his girlfriend to death Wednesday night in a downtown apartment. Police identified the couple on Thursday morning as April Haskell, 35, and Christopher Ouellette, 28, both from the Old Town area, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman […]