The University of Maine will recognize veterans with a week of events to coincide with Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The activities are coordinated by the UMaine Office of Veterans Education and Transition Services (VETS) and UMaine Veterans Association. UMaine Veterans Week activities will begin at 11:30 a.m.Monday, Nov. 7 with a wreath-laying ceremony in the […]

Crime in Maine decreased -7.1% during 2015, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. It the fourth consecutive year that crime has decreased in the state for a total decline during the past four years of -29.9%.   Crime dropped -13% in 2014, -8.3% in 2013 and -1.5% in 2012. “Although the four straight years of declining […]

The Some Theatre Company will be presenting “Next to Normal” from Nov. 4-13 at the Keith Anderson Community House, Orono. “Next to Normal” is, in the words of The New York Times, “much more than a feel-good musical; it is a feel-everything musical.” Centering upon the stop/start life of a bipolar mother as she rides the […]

Orono residents are reminded that voting has been moved to the New Balance Field House (also known as “The Big M”) at UMaine. Polls will be open on Nov. 8 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. There will be buses available for Orono residents who need transportation – provided by the City of Bangor’s Community […]

  AUGUSTA  – This Saturday, October 29, marks the beginning of the regular firearm season for deer, an unofficial holiday for tens of thousands of hunters across the state. The regular firearm season for deer opens on Saturday, October 29 for residents, and Monday, October 31 for nonresidents. The Firearms Season for deer concludes on Saturday, […]

EVANSTON, Illinois – This week officials of National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinlists in the 62nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million that will be offered […]

The following RSU 34 staff members were honored recently for their years of service to the district: Districtwide – 10 years: Jeff Hamlin, David Walker; 25 years: Timothy Fowler. Food – 10 years: Marion Hallowell; 15 years: Kim Barnes and Michelle Shorey. LMS – 20 years: Shianne Priest; 25 years: Steve Chappelle. OTES – 10 […]

There will be a Main Street property owners meeting on September 28, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 59 Main Street, Orono, to discuss zoning along Main Street (Juniper St. to Kelley Rd).  This is a public meeting and all are welcome. For more information, go to http://www.orono.org/DocumentCenter/View/4683.

AUGUSTA—Commissioner of Labor Jeanne Paquette warns job seekers about a scam that Department of Labor staff detected over the past week. The scammer used the Maine JobLink account of a legitimate Maine employer to target at least four job seekers, posing as a real Texas hospital system to recruit them for an administrative assistant position. […]

AUGUSTA—The 2016 Maine Hire-A-Vet Campaign has started, with the goal of the statewide campaign is to commit at least 100 employers to recruit veterans and with the result of at least 100 veterans hired. The campaign provides support for employers to expand the hiring of veterans, to include a network of state and federal agencies, […]