By DENNIS HOEY FairPoint Communications, Inc., announced Monday that it will need until the end of January to complete its takeover of Verizon's telephone system.

By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer Five years ago, Rob Steen purchased the Boyer family farm on Route 24 with the intention of turning the property into a successful working farm.

By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer For more than 20 years, Paul Perzanoski has been trying to get back to Maine. The man who is in line to become Brunswick's next superintendent of schools is about to get his wish.

By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer -- The Cathance River meanders through woods before spilling over a rock wall, the rushing sound of the 20-foot waterfall breaking the solitude. If it weren't for Cathance Road, visitors might think they were in the northern Maine wilderness.

By DENNIS HOEY Staff Writer -- A midcoast conservation group has brought its fight to protect American eels and other migratory fish species that are killed by hydroelectric dam turbines to the state's highest court.