The Old Town Police Department, in partnership with the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office and the Maine State Police, will be hosting a Community-Parent Drug Awareness Forum at the Leonard Middle School from 5-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30.  Penbscot County Deputy Chief Troy Morton, State Trooper Barry Meserve, and Old Town Police Sgt. Lee Miller […]

The University of Maine Circle K is holding the 4th annual St. Baldrick’s head shaving event on Maine Day, April 30, at the steam plant parking lot (rain location-Memorial Gym) from 12-4 p.m.       Students and members of the community will be shaving their heads bald to raise awareness and money for the […]

Aron Gaudet is taking the next step in his filmmaking career, with the release of his first feature film, a joint writing and directing effort with his wife, Gita Pullapilly. In 2009, Gaudet, who frew up in Old Town, directed the Emmy nominated documentary The Way We Get By, a heartfelt story about three senior […]

OLD TOWN – It was a rough winter financially for many people, and Crossroads Ministries was no exception. It was so bad in fact that Crossroads, whose food pantry and thrift shop are used by hundreds of area people, is doing something unprecedented for the non-profit – it is asking the public for financial donations […]

ORONO — The Maine Masque will perform Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Crimes of the Heart,” at 7:30 p.m. April 9-12 and at 2 p.m. April 13, in Hauck Auditorium at the University of Maine. Third-year theater and history major Nellie Kelly will direct the tragic comedy set in 1974 in a small Mississippi town. […]