Sasha Ray

3 days ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

Stockton Springs will appoint a new town manager later this month, nearly half a year after firing the last person to hold the role on a permanent basis. Waldo resident Sadie Lloyd Mudge will become the town manager, the Stockton Select Board announced at its meeting Monday. Lloyd Mudge’s formal appointment is scheduled to take place at a special Select Board meeting on May 20. “I am excited to be engaged in Stockton. It seems like a great community,” Lloyd Mudge said.

6 days ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. After nearly a year of work, a committee has unveiled its recommendations for how Belfast can improve the ability of people to get in and around the city with bikes, wheelchairs and their own feet.

1 week ago | wgme.com | Sasha Ray

The Belfast man accused of killing his wife in Readfield earlier this year is alleged to have attacked her and his mother with a fire poker before he fled the scene and eventually confessed to police, according to newly released court documents about the Feb. 19 slaying. Samuel Whittemore, 34, was charged with murdering his wife, 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore, after police found her body outside his parent’s home on Giles Road in Readfield, where the couple had been staying for several days.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

The Belfast man accused of killing his wife in Readfield earlier this year is alleged to have attacked her and his mother with a fire poker before he fled the scene and eventually confessed to police, according to newly released court documents about the Feb. 19 slaying. Samuel Whittemore, 34, was charged with murdering his wife, 32-year-old Margaux Whittemore, after police found her body outside his parent’s home on Giles Road in Readfield, where the couple had been staying for several days.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Sasha Ray

A federal judge has rejected a Belfast church’s attempt to stop the University of Maine System’s sale of the local Hutchinson Center to a nonprofit organization. On Wednesday morning, Judge Stacey Neumann issued a decision denying the preliminary injunction that Calvary Chapel Belfast sought to block the system’s sale of the center to Waldo Community Action Partners. Calvary Chapel Belfast has already filed an appeal of the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.