State Senator Kim Rosen would like to invite local students to visit the State House to take part in the Senate’s honorary page program during the first session of the 127th Legislature, which convenes in January. As an honorary page, students take part in the legislative session by distributing documents and assisting legislators on the […]

City Manager Bill Mayo is filing for funding for a Brownfield assessment of several properties in the downtown area. According to Mayo, there are at least ten such properties, such as the old school across from the mill, an old oil tank site next to the wastewater treatment plant, and a property on the corner […]

It’s a Merry Christmas for workers at the Old Town mill, where everybody will be back on the job a bit sooner than anticipated. The mill closed abruptly in August, with officials there citing foreign competition, high energy costs and problems with the biomass boiler as the reasons why. Even at the time of the […]

Enrollment is now open for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener volunteers training in Penobscot County. Extension Horticulturist Kate Garland, will collaborate with experts from around the state to present a 51 hour course on sustainable horticulture topics including botany, plant propagation, soils, composting, landscape design, vegetable gardening, pesticide safety, tree fruits, insects and plant diseases, ecology, plant selection, […]

ORONO – The Senior Companion Program is celebrating 40 years of connecting volunteers age 55 and older with community service efforts. Created by the federal government, SCP began in 1974 in 18 communities nationwide. Maine was added in 1978 when then-President Jimmy Carter expanded the program. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension became the program’s […]

The Orono Public Library Foundation is inviting people to support Chapter Two: The Campaign for the Orono Village Green with an online giving opportunity being launched on December 13th to help complete the $370,000 capital campaign. “Between now and Dec. 31, donors have 456 hours to support the Orono Village Green campaign by giving online […]

ORONO – A long-time member of the Orono Town Council announced last week she will not be seeking another term. Lianne Harris, who has been on the council for 18 years, said last week’s council meeting would be her last official meeting, leaving a brief vacancy on the board until municipal elections are held in […]

OLD TOWN – A Lewiston doctor who was investigated for illegally prescribing medical marijuana to patients at clinics in Old Town and elsewhere will no longer be practicing medicine. Keng-cheong Leong surrendered his medical license to the Board of Licensure in Medicine in a consent agreement signed December 9, 2014. Leong, who had his practice […]

Bronson Crothers and Marianne Lagerklint, Acton, MA, to Dorathy Martel, property at 17 Charles Street, $99,000. Nancy Sanford, personal representative of the estate of Muriel Sanford, Waterville, to Nancy Sanford, Waterville, property at 11 Noyes Drive. Russell and Danielle Pomarico, Old Town, to AMG Properties LLC, Falmouth, property at 2 Pleasant Street, $148,200. Rudolph Hikel, […]