POLAND — Select Board members were shown the final design sketches for the expansion of Ricker Memorial Library at Tuesday night’s meeting. The architect in charge of the plan, Michael Giasson, said the children’s room will be expanded, allowing for separate play area as well as a reading room. Giasson said a trio of windows […]
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Poland woman points finger at system for not preventing murder
Yaicha Provencher says she was never told about a long-term treatment program available in Maine, despite her ex-boyfriend’s many hospitalizations.
Range ponds’ water quality draws capacity crowd in Poland
POLAND — A capacity crowd attended Tuesday’s workshop by the Select Board to discuss an algal bloom in Middle Range Pond this summer, which prompted questions about the cause and concerns about water quality on the three Range ponds. The board invited residents and officials from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Range […]
CMP restores power across Androscoggin County after Wednesday night storm
Fallen trees took out power lines Wednesday night.
Mark LaFlamme: Justin Butterfield’s dark night of the soul
I’ve been covering crime in the Lewiston-Auburn area for nearly 30 years now, but I’ll tell you this. There have been very few stories so shocking and so downright ugly over those years that they’ve kept me up at night. But this one did. The killing at a quiet little trailer park in Poland stuck […]
Poland man to seek insanity defense in brother’s Thanksgiving Day murder
Judge Tammy Ham-Thompson ordered a mental evaluation to determine whether Justin Butterfield, 34, is competent to stand trial on the murder charge.
A tale of two Justins: Poland murder suspect described as a loving father, brother whom the mental health system failed
Friends of Justin Butterfield say he was in and out of mental health facilities for years prior to the Poland man being charged with killing his oldest brother Thursday morning.
Man charged with murder after body found at Poland trailer home, police say
Justin Butterfield, 34, of 14 Poplar Drive in Poland charged after body was discovered Thursday morning at trailer where he lived, police say. Family and friends say they have been trying for years to get help for Butterfield. Killed Thursday morning was 38-year-old Gabe Damour.
Poland Community School slammed by sickness
POLAND — Poland Community School canceled its popular Friendsgiving event Tuesday because so many students were ill officials thought it wasn’t safe to proceed. In a message to families, Principal Brandi Comeau said “an enormous number of students” were home ill Monday and “a large number” of others had to be sent home during the […]
Poland campaign demonstrates acts of kindness
Students in the Poland Before and After School Care Program have created a Kindness Tree to show that it’s the little gestures and small kindnesses that people give and receive regularly that make their world a happy place. Using colorful hand prints, they have listed acts of kindness — ones received and ones conducted. For […]