Village Soup - Tue Oct 27

NEWCASTLE : Betsy Evans and Dick Cleveland were awakened Oct. 22 at 1:30 a.m. by loud noises outside their home on Hopkins Hill Road in Newcastle.

Bangor Daily News - Thu Oct 22

Education Commissioner Susan Gendron is proposing an overhaul of the way the state provides special education to students, with an independent report showing those costs increasing at twice the rate of other education spending.

Village Soup - Thu Oct 22

John E. Baldacci signed Maine's same-sex marriage bill into law last spring, opponents made it clear that the debate over gay marriage in Maine was far from over.