The KeepMEwarm program through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is seeking volunteers to learn how to weatherize homes, Jefferson selectmen said during their regular Monday night meeting.

Friday the 13th was a lucky day for Debbie and Arthur Ethier when the FedEx driver rolled up to their neat trailer and delivered a check for $100,000.

As Maine school children last week lined up to receive voluntary doses of H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccinations, legislative leaders rejected a bill seeking to clarify Maine’s vaccination law.

Keeping clam-flats open depends on acceptable water quality.

Mid-October sampling in the Kennebec Estuary stream corridor, an area that includes the Sasanoa and Sheepscot watersheds, showed moderately elevated scores of fecal contamination.

Tony and Cassandra Bickford announce with great joy, the birth of their daughter Charlotte Loren Bickford.

A “comedy of errors” is how a Maine State Revenues (MRS) official described Whitefield’s assessing efforts in recent years as town officials have aimed at levying property taxes fairly.

Alan Burgess, a former Boothbay elementary teacher charged with having sexually explicit child pornography on his home computer, made his initial court appearance Tuesday.

Do you have any unused prescriptions sitting in the medicine chest, or in your top bureau drawer on tucked in a kitchen cupboard?

Parents Alvie and Lindsey Kassatly of York are proud to announce the birth of their baby boy, Owen Jackson Kassatly.

Asked the secret of a good life, 96-year-old Miles Memorial Hospital volunteer Nat Weston said, “Trust in God,” and then added, “You have to trust people, too.”

Jonathan and Sara Burton of Worcester, Mass., are pleased to announce the birth of a son, Isaac Daniel Burton.

A Boothbay Harbor area lobsterman has been charged with removing lobsters from traps owned by other lobstermen, the Maine Marine Patrol said.

Following a difficult review process, the staff at Atlantic Motorcar in Wiscasset has selected one out of 70 nominations in the company’s “Keep A Family Rolling” contest.

Statehouse News ServiceFailing to register as a Ballot Question Committee may net Maine Leads the highest penalty ever assessed under Maine’s campaign finance law. The Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices meets Thursday to decide if the conservative nonprofit’s failure to report funding merits an $18,000 fine.