2+ hour, 18+ min ago  (714+ words) WATERVILLE " Rabbi Rachel Isaacs spent the days leading up to Passover overseeing the preparation of ceremonial foods at Beth Israel Congregation, a synagogue in central Maine where membership has quadrupled over the last 15 years. These days, growing congregations is very…...

15+ hour, 34+ min ago  (729+ words) Transcripts of two 911 calls made by a Carrabassett Valley man who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend last month offer details of his panicked attempts to get her to a hospital and stem her bleeding. Austin Doucette, 24, is charged with…...

12+ hour, 51+ min ago  (840+ words) When Brett Goldman moved to Wiscasset from Pennsylvania in 2024, he decided to get the Maine Lighthouse Trust specialty license plate, so he'd have an easier time distinguishing his gray sedan from other gray sedans in a parking lot. With an…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago  (215+ words) Centralmaine. com You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a Centralmaine. com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago  (853+ words) Amid the first property revaluation in 30 years, Oakland officials are proposing a spending plan that accounts for rising costs but keeps spending tight. "It's a good budget," Oakland Town Manager Kelly Pinney-Michaud said. "But it's bare bones." While the spending…...

20+ hour, 23+ min ago  (216+ words) A 73-year-old man died Wednesday morning when the truck he was driving crashed on Route 148 in Madison, according to the Somerset County Sheriff's Office. First responders pronounced Kenneth Dunphy, of Lexington Township, dead at the scene, Lt. Michael Knight of…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (718+ words) MADISON " Denise Ducharme is out as town manager, after 2" years in the town's top administrative job. The town said in a brief statement issued Tuesday night that the Select Board did not renew Ducharme's contract. The three-year contract was set…...

1+ day, 18+ min ago  (190+ words) This week's movie picks, intentionally or not, follow some unfortunately timely themes. The complicity of "good people" trapped under evil, racist governments. The impossibility of staying clean in a dirty, corrupt world. The responsibility or artists to use their gifts…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (448+ words) Warming temperatures means birds will be looking for places to nest, lay eggs, and raise their young. Some of the places they choose may not necessarily be that good, for birds or humans occupying the property where they may be…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (376+ words) Laura Mauldin's journey as a sociologist began when she moved to New York for graduate school. That was also when a couple of queer friends invited her to a WNBA game where she met J." They wrote love letters all winter....