BELFAST — A woman who apparently drove into the path of an oncoming charter bus on U.S. Route 1 in Belfast Saturday evening has died, police said. Chief Michael McFadden has not identified the woman, who was in her 50s. Witnesses told officers that it looked like the woman driving the car turned left from […]
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Driver cut out of car after crash with charter bus on Route 1
BELFAST — By the time rescue crews were done with the Subaru Impreza after a bad crash Saturday evening, it looked more like a crumpled tin can than a car. But the driver survived the accident, police said, even though the vehicle appeared was T-boned by a charter bus. Witnesses told officers that it looked […]
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Suspect in fatal Belfast shooting found at Rockport hospital
BELFAST — A former tax examiner has been formally charged with murder after he fatally shot a woman and injured her son Wednesday night, according to police. Police identified the woman killed at a Waldo Avenue home in Belfast as 55-year-old Lynn Arsenault of Belfast and Garland. Her son, Mathew Day, 22, also was found […]
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Belfast designated as “business friendly”
BELFAST (AP) — Belfast is the latest Maine community to be designated as “business friendly” by the state. Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner George Gervais will present Belfast with a “certified business-friendly” certificate and road signs on Monday. Twenty-four Maine towns and cities have earned the “business-friendly” designation since the program was launched […]
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A sweet tooth leads to a sweet deal for midcoast chocolate entrepreneur
Kate McAleer’s Belfast-based candy company — Bixby & Co. — had a rather unorthodox beginning. It started, in theory, on a golf course. McAleer, then an undergraduate at New York University, played on the women’s golf team as a student, and during the six-hour games spent out in the sun, she’d develop an appetite. She […]