The Old Town City Council approved a contract and bond to cover road paving costs for the 2020-2021 fiscal year at its Aug. 3 meeting.

Even with safety precautions in place -- including a requirement that many students go through two rounds of COVID-19 testing -- some students say they’re troubled by the lingering unknowns.

A group of tireless local activists who designed art sculptures to inspire the community during the coronavirus pandemic has made a new project come to life on Main Street in Orono -- a crosswalk painted in the colors of the Pride Progress flag.

Some students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade will return to full-time classroom instruction this year, the RSU 34 school district announced Tuesday. 

Rescue workers pulled an unidentified man from the Penobscot River near the reopened Old Town pulp mill after police spent hours looking for him earlier Tuesday on suspicion that he had assaulted someone at Pembroke Pines Apartments.

The Milford Board of Selectmen approved 41 different educational and town budget issues for the 2020-21 school and fiscal year during its meeting on July 21.