Downeast community invited to gather for free Shared Tables, Shared Stories Supper

Two nights in Orono: PBS-bound Maine documentary ‘Saving Walden’s World’ screens as a benefit for the Mabel Wadsworth Center

The award-winning film follows women-led solutions that lifted whole communities without wrecking the planet. Director Jim Merkel joins each night for a post-screening Q&A. All proceeds support reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare in eastern Maine. ORONO — What happens to a community, and to a planet, when a 15-year-old girl knows she can become an engineer, […]

Cara & the Crowd bring world music jam to The Underground Lounge

BELFAST — Cara & the Crowd, the latest project of Maine songwriter and fiddler Cara Lauzon, will take the stage at The Underground Lounge at 17 Court St. in Belfast, on Saturday, Nov. 7.  The group — best described as a world jam band — creates an outrageous blend of genres. Their songs tell the […]

Bangor man charged in bar fight that left woman unconscious

The fight happened outside of a Franklin Street bar early Sunday morning, Bangor police said.

Pilot in Learjet crash that killed 9 in Florida was a husband, father and a devout Christian

The pilot of a business jet that crashed in Florida, killing all nine people aboard, was a longtime aviator, husband and father from the Philadelphia suburbs, according to a colleague who organized an online fundraiser for his family and social media posts from people who knew him. Jeff Gregory, 55, was one of two crew […]

These local elections are being waged along the ‘Two Maines’ dividing line

None of the races drawing the most outside money this fall features a candidate from Aroostook County or Portland.